add skeletal animation please!

[ZMike]

it would be nice if instead of loading a g3d model from the units xml files you could load a text-based file that then declares the model and the animation files for the actions,example (vertex animation = true,mesh = archer.mesh,attack = archerattck.anim and so on) this would be great for both moders and modelers and would probably make the game and its mods tiny compared to what they were i mean the smallest faction is egypt at 25mb and the largest are romans and persians at 53mb and 54mb.i and a lot of the moding community would 
really love for this to be a thing and would probably get me and a lot of others back into modding again.