Mirroring an image in animation and erasing skins

Morgana

Hello everyone!
Sorry if I'm not clear enough, I'm not english native.
I have 2 issues:

1.- MIRRORING
In my animation, I need to make my character look to the left and then to the right, so I can use the same head image by mirroring the head bone with the scale tool. For that, I set an initial key when it's 1.0, copy this same key and paste it just 1 keyframe before setting it to -1.0 to get the mirroring effect, and apparently looks good, but once I play it on the preview mode you can notice when the image is turning all the way to the opposite side. Is there a better way to do this?

2.- SKINS
I have a skeleton with multiple animations and 2 skins, but to export it for Unity, I've been asked to do it separately (skin A and Skin B in different files) and without any skin created, so no placeholders in the tree. I did that in a previous file, but I did it manually and was easier because there weren't many images attached, but this file has a lot!.

Hope I had explained it right.

Harald

Regarding your second question:

Morgana wrote
I did that in a previous file, but I did it manually and was easier because there weren't many images attached, but this file has a lot!.

Do you have your attachments and skins organized as folders (both within Spine as well as on disk)? This should save you a lot of work I assume.

Morgana

Hi Herald!
Do you mean organized by folders in the tree as when you import a file with folder from PSD?
I have both skins separate by folders in my disk, but not in the Spine tree because images came from Illustrator.

Harald

While I'm a mere programmer and am not too familiar what exactly happens with PSD import, but I mean folders in the Spine tree panel, yes.

Nate

1) There is time between key frames, hold shift while scrubbing the timeline to disable snapping so you can see it. You can use a stepped key to avoid interpolation between the keys.
Graph - Spine User Guide: Stepped

2) That's a strange requirement. They want the same skeleton in two files, but with different attachments? That is going to duplicate the skeleton, so any changes have to be done in both projects. That's not a great setup, it will be a lot of tedious work for you, and there's no good reason to do it that way. They are welcome to come to this forum and discuss their reasons for that requirement, then we can explain why it is not necessary.

Morgana

Thank you very much for that! the stepped key has solved the problem and I had no idea about the fact to hold the shift to see the time between keyframes, that's very helpful.

Regarding the strange requirement, we'll so how to solve that with other solution then.

Thanks to both