So far, we've learned how to create mesh representations within the sandbox. We're now going to deal with an additional asset called a skeleton. Ogre, which is the underlying renderer for the sandbox, stores the skeleton and animations within a single .skeleton file. Any animated Ogre mesh within the sandbox references its animations from the media/animations folder, and in the case of our soldier, animations are located at media/animations/futuristic_soldier/futuristic_soldier.skeleton.

Loading an animated mesh is exactly the same as loading a normal mesh within the sandbox. Simply create an animated mesh with the Core.CreateMesh function:

Sandbox.lua:

function Sandbox_Initialize(sandbox)
    local soldier = Core.CreateMesh(
        sandbox,
        "models/futuristic_soldier/" ..
        "futuristic_soldier_dark_anim.mesh");