[Feature Request] Automatic bind texture to skin

tiantian20007

First, thanks guys for the great tool, our game depends on it !

1. Automatic bind texture to skin

We use skin for change textures for the same bone. Just like the goblins.spine project in examples folder.
Most case, the textures used for another skin have the same structure and same file name within a different folder.

images for goblin skin
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images for goblingirl skin
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It's obvious un-convenient to bind all these texture one by one manually for another skin.
It will be great if the new textures with the same file name can be bind automatically according to the textures folder I selected for the new skin. :rock: :rock: :rock:

2. bind multiple textures to the skin of single slot

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As we can see in the dragon.spine example, the wing of the dragon: R_wing slot has multiple textures;
In this case, when we want to add another skin for a dragon girl, and the R_wing also has multiple textures, we will fail because only one texture can be bind a the skin of that R_wing slot.
So binding multiple textures to the skin of slot is needed. :rock: :rock: :rock:

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dujinyang

That's right.A powerful tool need to be perfect.

Adam

Hello,

1) I've one thing to add, sometimes only few textures change. Not all of them. For example the hands stays the same and only the body changes.
In our case, we even have all the textures variants in one folder. It's not always the case that different skin = new folder, depends on the use case. But it's not a bad idea to have it for your use case.

2) I'm not sure if I get it right, but the way skins work is a bit different. You should then create a skin placeholder for each image. If you use skins, the skin placeholder the role of an image attachment. So for example of you switch visibility of image attachments - when you're using skins, you switch visibility of skin placeholders, not image attachments.
(Am I right? Or am I missing something? 😃 )

Nate

1) The texture packer uses folders to determine what images should go on different atlas pages. This allows you to better control texture binds at runtime by putting images that are likely drawn together in the same folder. Eg, for the goblins you'd want them in the same folder if you draw a mix of many male and female goblins. Other times you only draw one skin at a time, eg if you only draw your hero once and he has multiple skins then you might want the skin image on different pages and therefore different folders.

Something to make creating a new skin easier needs to work both with folders but also with loose images, maybe with some filename globbing (eg goblingirl*). I've added this thread to the task for improving skins. See the other thread in the task for more ideas.
https://trello.com/c/gCmi7Znc/101-consi ... n-workflow

2) Adam is right, you should have a skin placeholder for each wing image. You hide/show skin placeholders and the actual image that is hidden or shown comes from the skin.

Nate

You can try this early feature:
viewtopic.php?p=7762#p7762