Can you combine animations that use the same bones?

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Just wondering if this is possible. Basically I want one animation to be applied, while the other animation is applied relative to the current animation.

For example, when my character performs a block, the body bone is rotated. Then if the character starts walking I would like to apply the walk animation on top of the block without resetting the Body bone to it's keyed translation/rotation on the Walk animation.

The traditional way of combining doesn't seem to work since the bones in each animation should not interfere with each other in order to combine properly. And mixing doesn't seem to be what I want either since I don't want to blend the animations from one to the next.

Not sure how much I will actually encounter this issue. Was just wondering if it can be done with Spine, and if you have any thoughts on whether this use case is even that common.

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Nate

Animations are relative to the setup pose. You can modify the setup pose if you want to change what animations are relative to. The setup pose is stored in the SkeletonData. You could have two skeletons with two SkeletonDatas (load the same SkeletonData twice or copy it), pose one, copy all the bone SRTs from that skeleton's Bones to the SkeletonData's BoneDatas of the other.

It's a bit strange, not sure if it will work like you want. Might be easier to programmatically modify the setup pose in the SkeletonData.

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I guess I could also just create multiple bones at a single point with one the parent of the other. Then I could have each animation modify a different bone and this should give the effect of the animations playing on top of eachother.

Either way, what I originally had wanted seems like it would be pretty difficult to do with just one bone, this might be a good alternative solution.