How to split out multiple animations from Collada file in SceneKit

Question

I am loading a third-party .dae Collada file as a scene into a SceneKit project.

The .dae file has many different animations in it, set at different times/frames. I

Answer 1

As Toyos mentioned in his answer, enumerate the CAAnimationGroup using SCNSceneSource and retrieve the CAAnimation objects as follows:

NSURL *daeURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"exportedFilename" withExtension:@"dae"];

SCNSceneSource *sceneSource = [SCNSceneSource sceneSourceWithURL:daeURL options:nil];

NSMutableArray *myAnimations = [@[] mutableCopy];

for (NSString *singleAnimationName in [sceneSource identifiersOfEntriesWithClass:[CAAnimation class]]) {
    CAAnimation *thisAnimation = [sceneSource entryWithIdentifier:singleAnimationName withClass:[CAAnimation class]];
    [myAnimations addObject:thisAnimation];
}