Loading / Cloning same Object with Children into Scene multiple times

kdv wrote:

Scene is an empty object.

Well might be the case, one with particular properties.
But the answer is no. it doesn’t work with a rig parented to an empty.

Only the one specific empty is cloned, since it does not work with “groups, lists or all object puzzle”. Even when cloning recursively all parent-child relations seem to be dropped.

Yep, it truly is. Thanks for this demo, it’s quite interesting how this works.
I can only guess right now, but I assume there are some differences.
For example, the Farmer rig shows as type ‘SkinnedMesh’ while in my scene the armature is of type ‘Bone’. Maybe that’s a possible reason?

I have to admit, I actually don’t know the real difference, beside reading about some solutions regarding a dynamic rig and an IK solver which seem to be present in the verge3d api.
So I have to assume a blender exported rig is static and limited to its exported animation clips while SkinnedMesh can be dynamically changed or animated through the api.