thanks, Egon. 
But I forgot to mention that I am using jpct-ae and I don't find that API in the ae version  .  Is there any workaround that I can use for capturing the snapshot in ae?

P.S. sorry for not posting this query in the 'ae' forum 

thanks, raft.

I had 2 & 3 in mind.  Your first alternate is seems to be interesting.    I'll try them out and get back you.

hi raft,

I am planning to use a mesh (that sits on the same skeleton as the body) for shirt.  Is it possible to use the same mesh for full-sleeve and half-sleeve shirts.  If that is possible, how do we assign the texture coordinates?

Thanks,
Babu

hi raft,

I am back  .  I could load the cylinder model with the pose animations in my Android app and I could have all the pose animations working fine.  I see that the skin-animation, "wave" is also working fine. 

But I am facing a problem when I try to have both skin and pose animations working together .  I am able see only that animation which I apply last in the code i.e. if I call animatePose() last then I see only pose animation and if I call animateSkin() last then I see only skin animation.  I am not sure if I am doing some wrong  .  Below is the code for onDrawFrame().  I am using Ninja Demo as the base for my app.

                public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl)
{
if (frameBuffer == null) return;

long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
aggregatedTime += (now - frameTime);
frameTime = now;

if (aggregatedTime > 1000)
{
aggregatedTime = 0;
}

while (aggregatedTime > GRANULARITY)
{
aggregatedTime -= GRANULARITY;
skinAnimateSeconds += GRANULARITY * 0.001f * speed;
poseAnimateSeconds += GRANULARITY * 0.001f * speed;
placeCamera();
}

if (poseAnimation > 0 && rockyCylinder.getPoseClipSequence().getSize() >= poseAnimation)
{
float clipTime = rockyCylinder.getPoseClipSequence().getClip(poseAnimation-1).getTime();
if (poseAnimateSeconds > clipTime)
{
poseAnimateSeconds = 0;
}
float index = poseAnimateSeconds / clipTime;

rockyCylinder.animatePose(index, poseAnimation);
}
else
{
poseAnimateSeconds = 0f;
}

////////////////////////// START BLOCK /////////////////////////////////////////
/////// If I move this block above pose animation then "wave" doesn't happen//////////
if (skinAnimation > 0 && rockyCylinder.getSkinClipSequence().getSize() >= skinAnimation)
{
float clipTime = rockyCylinder.getSkinClipSequence().getClip(skinAnimation-1).getTime();
if (skinAnimateSeconds > clipTime)
{
skinAnimateSeconds = 0;
}
float index = skinAnimateSeconds / clipTime;

rockyCylinder.animateSkin(index, skinAnimation);
}
else
{
skinAnimateSeconds = 0f;
}
////////////////////////// END BLOCK /////////////////////////////////////////

rockyCylinder.applyAnimation();

frameBuffer.clear();
world.renderScene(frameBuffer);
world.draw(frameBuffer);

frameBuffer.display();
}


Thanks, raft.  I will download the zip and check it out.

Yesterday, I had done some changes locally and I was able convert from xml to bones.  And I am able to to load the cylinder model in my Android App.  Basically, the method, "loadPose" of "MeshAnimationLoader" assumes the existence of extension in the submesh names.  I just did the following changes to get around that.
Old Code
String cleanName = name.substring(0, name.lastIndexOf('-'));
rootnode.addPose(cleanName, pose);

My Changes
String cleanName = name;
int extIndex = name.lastIndexOf('-');
if(extIndex >0 ) cleanName = name.substring(0, extIndex);
rootnode.addPose(cleanName, pose);


thanks, raft

I am seeing this problem with even "cylinder.mesh.xml" and "facial.mesh.xml".  Seems to be common problem for anything with pose animations 

Yeah, I will try my best to debug this    But it seems to happen in the jme loader for which i don't have the source code.  Any idea, from where I can get the source 

Following are data that I just collected:

Simulator
Load (.bones to AnimatedGroup) - 12 seconds
Oncreate to OnDraw - 18 seconds

Samsung Galaxy 3
Load (.bones to AnimatedGroup) - 6 seconds
Oncreate to OnDrawFrame - 12 seconds

hi raft, I am back
I read in wiki read that

current versions of jPCT come with a new class, the DeSerializer. While it can be used within jPCT only, it's main purpose is to be used in combination with AE. The idea is to load the models in jPCT and serialize them into an optimized format that can be loaded by AE very quickly.

Is it possible to use this approach when we are using Bones i.e. is it possible to serialize/deserialize Animated3Ds?