Stuck on importing animation

[supasaru]

There seem to be a lot of posts about this topic, but I just can't sort it out.

I have two FBXs. Using the FBX SDK I have been able to import scenes, merge them together, iterate through all the scene nodes, export as format 7100 (old code support), etc, etc, etc. I know these files should work together since you can import them into other tools and the animated mesh looks just fine.

One includes a mesh and then a hierarchy of LimbNodes in its scene. The second one is an animation and the scene includes only LimbNodes. The scenes look something like File 1 { mesh, Bip001 } and File 2 { Bip001 }. I cannot get them animations to match to the skeleton and mesh.

I have imported scene 1 into scene 2 and I ended up seeing a mesh with bones and then a totally separate set of bones with an animation.

I have followed the Scene Merge example here (via Src/DstObject, AddChild, reference scene) and ended up with totally separate set of bones with an animation.

I have renamed the Bip001 skeleton before importing (same result).
I have tried iterating through the Animation Stack discoverable through GetCurrentAnimationStack (not sure I did this right, but same result).
I have not tried trying to merge the two LimbNode hierarchies together. There doesn't seem to be a graceful way to do this other than iterating and AddNode/RemoveNode, is there?

What's the trick? Does anyone have any example code on how to "wire up" the imported Animation to the Mesh and Bones?

[supasaru]

I made some progress by iterating through some of the Animation Curves, cloning, and assigning properties. It seems to have worked, but I don't know if that's a really strange way of accomplishing what I was trying to do or if that's what I'm supposed to do.....

Hints would be appreciated if that method makes no sense.