Video: Attachments and Meshes

Nate

Our video series that accompanies the Spine User Guide is picking up again! This video is about the region and mesh attachment basics. The second part to this video will be about how to best create and use meshes.

Nate

Pharan

Don't forget to mention the Deformed checkbox! It's super useful but the name doesn't suggest that it is.

Vivek

Hello,
i have Unity asset
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/41338

now i want to replace animation with new character

but when i'm trying to import or create skin placeholder it create scaling issue.

like my asset character drawing is smaller then my character.

my skype : vikibaba0204
plz help me

Thanks
vivek

Hello,

I'm new to spine.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzmc431bw30etux/SpineSkeletonProblem.mov?dl=0

see video.

1)When my player is in "for_FloorIdeal" animation,

2)then we change into other animation its position move.

3)rest all the animation play wrong.

plz,
help me how to solve this issue

Thanks
vivek

dirtyc

This is great, but I really need the second part. Is that hidden online somewhere I can't find? Or are we waiting on it?

Søren

It will be released next week! 🙂

Stevepunk

This is really appreciated.
Spine seems to be the preferred animation tool for Unity users but it also adds a lot of complexity not previously present (especially in shaders - it replaces other sprite shaders such as the spritelamp one that handles occlusion, normal maps, specular, emission, etc. and doesn't offer any of these features).

Pharan

@[삭제됨]
I think you're in the wrong thread.
But to answer. No, it doesn't replace other sprite shaders. You could use Spritelamp's shaders if it offers any. Or any other Sprite shaders.
In fact, another user shared his shaders: Sprite Shaders for Unity
Those shaders were meant for for Unity sprites, but can also be used for Spine skeletons.

I've already answered you about specifics in that other thread.

Søren

Apologies for not getting the video up yet.

The linked mesh feature that just got added had to make it in as well so it takes a little more work. So much to do, so little time!

Stevepunk

Pharan wrote
@[삭제됨]
I think you're in the wrong thread.
But to answer. No, it doesn't replace other sprite shaders. You could use Spritelamp's shaders if it offers any. Or any other Sprite shaders.
In fact, another user shared his shaders: Sprite Shaders for Unity
Those shaders were meant for for Unity sprites, but can also be used for Spine skeletons.

I've already answered you about specifics in that other thread.

No I'm quite appreciative of the attachments and the video describing how they work (as per the OP).

However a large drawback of Spine is that it is not compatible with Unity Shaders as you claim.
It does not communicate the rotation of objects to Unity and thus lighting appears to come from all the wrong angles on a model.

The attachments are a really great feature but worthless with the Unity Shader incompatibility 😢

gio51791

I have just noticed now that spine has this new tool "shear" its cool but what does it really do and used for?

Nate

gio51791, generally it's better to create a new thread if what you are discussing isn't really the same topic as an existing thread.

We really need to do a blog post about shear, but until then: The shear tool allows you to rotate a bone's X or Y axis separately. This skews the bone and any attachments and child bones. You might think of this as a new way of doing scaling. It can be used for squash and stretch, though somewhat differently from scaling. Here's an example:

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You can see shear on spineboy's head. Also note that he is throwing the gun (and his hand...) using a transform constraint. 🙂 Animation credits go to Pharan!

gio51791

SORRY!!! lol thanks though

Nate

BTW, Shiu got the 2nd mesh video up a while ago.
Spine User Guide - Attachments and Meshes (2/2) - YouTube