animation-target-refactor.md

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title: "`AnimationTarget` replaced by separate components"
pull_requests: [20774]

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The AnimationTarget component has been split into two separate components. AnimationTarget::id is now an AnimationTargetId component, and AnimationTarget::player is now an AnimatedBy component.

This change was made to add flexibility. It's now possible to calculate the AnimationTargetId first, but defer the choice of player until later.

Before:

entity.insert(AnimationTarget { id: AnimationTargetId(id), player: player_entity });

After:

entity.insert((AnimationTargetId(id), AnimatedBy(player_entity)));