after reading some techniques done in C++ i saw that you could essentially build an entire mesh and apply bones as well as set the weights within code, which was what i was after. In blitz3d i got around this whole bit simply by passing entityparent from a bone of one mesh tot he bone of another, this way when i animated the skeleton the child meshes would animate with it. In irrlicht trying to attach a bonenode of one mesh to the bonenode of another mesh crashes the system. So instead of that i decided perhaps i could just build a new Skinned mesh made up of meshbuffers from different bodyparts and then use the skeleton of the base skeleton.b3d file i loaded. This way i can swap out parts for changing costume or features.

I have been struggling with this for a few days, but something i am having trouble figuring out is why i cannot append any vertices to a SSkinnedMeshBuffer, seems to work fine with a an SMeshBuffer.

e.g.

Global bodyp:IAnimatedMesh = device.getSceneManager().getMesh("media\avatars\male_torso.b3d")


Global meshy2:ISkinnedMesh = smgr.creatSkinnedMesh()
Global meshy:SSkinMeshBuffer = meshy2.addMeshBuffer()

'just gonna try with the first meshbuffer.. since this mesh only has one
Global bodymeshbuff:IMeshBuffer = bodyp.getMeshBuffer(0)


Global bodyverts:S3DVertex[] = bodymeshbuff.getVertices()
Global bodyindices:Short[] = bodymeshbuff.getIndices()

DebugLog "Vertices to add: "+bodyverts.length+" Indices to add: "+bodyindices.length

meshy.append(bodyverts,bodyindices)
DebugLog "Meshy has: "+meshy.getVertexCount()
'meshy.appendFromOther(bodymeshbuff) <---- didnt work either

I have tried a bunch of other ways to get around this.. like trying to break attach the mesh's bones to the base skeleton's bones, but that causes irrlicht to crash. Anyone have any idea how to do this or what i am doing wrong?