Alrighty, as promised. Here are some teaser images of my new approach.
Custom debug value allowing for player to control Wang's AI. Here we have WanRyo about to hop on the bike.
Here we have the first camera pivot as the bike animation happens, that doesnt exist.
The model for Ryo/Wang disappears. I do not know why this happens yet.
Here we have the final camera pivot of WanRyo on the bike.
Here we have WanRyo riding to the end of Dobuita.
Currently, the bike floats and Ryo's model dissappears.
With this approach, I do not know if its fixable. But I'll keep looking into it.
For now, thanks for being patient.
/james