[The Wes Project][wes] is a software library for editing animations used in [the jMonkeyEngine (JME) game engine][jme].

It contains 2 subprojects:

1. WesLibrary: the Wes [JVM] runtime library
2. WesExamples: demos, examples, and non-automated test software

Complete source code (in [Java]) is provided under [a 3-clause BSD license][license].

Contents of this document

• Important features
• How to add Wes to an existing project
• How to build Wes from source
• Downloads
• Conventions
• An overview of the demo applications
• External links
• History
• Acknowledgments

Important features

• extract a time-range from an animation
• resample an animation track at a new frame rate
• retarget animations from one model/skeleton to another
• interpolate between keyframes using a wide assortment of algorithms
• reverse an animation track
• chain 2 tracks together
• repair certain issues with animation tracks
• convert a traveling animation to an in-place cyclic animation

Most of the features work with both the old and new animation systems.

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