scale relative to custom origin

bean

When I scale the spine hero, it always seems to scale the character relative to the bottom of the feet. Is there any way to scale the character relative to a point outside of the character?

This is for a 2d fighting game where the camera zooms in and out based on the distance between the 2 fighters. I want to scale relative to the point equidistant between the fighters.

bean

Nate

When you scale a bone, the bone's origin is used. You could move the bone you are scaling, but you might need another bone so you skeleton doesn't move. You could transform the vertices yourself before they are drawn. You could use a camera so your scaling is done by whatever toolkit you are using.

Pharan

It does sound like you need a camera.
Transforming the vertices yourself amounts to manually implementing a camera (or camera-like logic) in this case. It would work much better than scaling and moving the origin around.

bean

Thanks for the camera tip, much easier than implementing scaling on everything.

FYI for people using turbulenz, I was able use this viewportRectangle as a camera: http://docs.turbulenz.com/jslibrary_api/draw2d_api.html#configure