I’m trying to model & animate a simple object like a shoulder, upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist. The joints are just spheres, the arms are just cylinders (CylinderGeometry). I want them all parented in the usual way, shoulder → upper arm → elbow → forearm → wrist. It seems like in three.js “bones” …

Skeleton controlling multiple meshes

donmccurdy September 13, 2021, 6:42pm 2

If a mesh is only influenced by a single bone, then you can make the bone a parent of that mesh. If multiple bones, then SkinnedMesh (and its per-vertex skin index and weights) would be the way to go.

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