Use Animations from an external FBX file?

[chillbert]

My setup is usually so that I have a character.glb file and then lots of different animations from one or multiple fbx files, which I apply on the character like this:

(this setup makes totally sense when you have multiple characters in a multiplayer game with small size and have only once to load all the animations for all players (since they are all the same right?):

 const {scene}= useGLTF("character.glb");
  const walkingFbx = useFBX("walking.fbx");
  const { actions } = useAnimations(walkingFbx.animations, characterRef);

  useEffect(() => {
    actions?.[Object.keys(actions)[0]]?.play();
  }, [actions]);
//..
 <primitive ref={characterRef} object={scene} />

how would I achieve this in this case:

  /**
   * Character url preset
   */
  const characterURL = './Demon.glb'

  /**
   * Character animation set preset
   */
  const animationSet = {
    idle: 'CharacterArmature|Idle',
    walk: 'CharacterArmature|Walk',
    run: 'CharacterArmature|Run',
    jump: 'CharacterArmature|Jump',
    jumpIdle: 'CharacterArmature|Jump_Idle',
    jumpLand: 'CharacterArmature|Jump_Land',
    fall: 'CharacterArmature|Duck', // This is for falling from high sky
    action1: 'CharacterArmature|Wave',
    action2: 'CharacterArmature|Death',
    action3: 'CharacterArmature|HitReact',
    action4: 'CharacterArmature|Punch'
  }
//...

 <EcctrlAnimation characterURL={characterURL} animationSet={animationSet}>
                  <CharacterModel />
 </EcctrlAnimation>

Do I need to manipulte the EcctrlAnimation.tsx by myself?

export function EcctrlAnimation(props: EcctrlAnimationProps) {
  // Change the character src to yours
  const group = useRef();
   const animations= useFBX("allmyAnimationsIn1FBX.fbx"); //here?
  const { actions } = useAnimations(animations, group);

[ErdongChen-Andrew]

Unfortunately, at the moment, you will need to combine the animations to your character.glb to make it work.
I tried to create a featrue using external fbx animations before, but the transition in between was really bad. I will get back to this feature maybe latter on 😅