Mix and Match using multiple Skins

alexandervrs

I was following the tutorial here http://en.esotericsoftware.com/spine-examples-mix-and-match

However, I could not find any tutorials as to how I could change an item while running it in Unity using multiple Skins like that.

So for example, I have this test character, it contains 2 faces and 2 swords. I created a Unity project with a button that is supposed to swap out the iron_sword with the gold_sword, I also wanted it to keep the currently worn face.
The overall behaviour would be equivalent to an "Equip Sword" button.

using UnityEngine;
using Spine;
using Spine.Unity;

public class AttachmentSwapper : MonoBehaviour
{

public SkeletonAnimation skel;

public void SwapSword()
{

    Skeleton skeleton = skel.Skeleton;
    Skin customSkin = new Skin("custom");

    int faceSlot = skeleton.FindSlotIndex("face");
    int swordSlot = skeleton.FindSlotIndex("sword");

    // i want to keep the current face in the customSkin
    customSkin.SetAttachment(faceSlot, "face", skeleton.GetAttachment(faceSlot, "normal_face")); // this should probably need something like skeleton.GetCurrentAttachment(faceSlot);

    // i want to change the sword to "gold_sword"
    customSkin.SetAttachment(swordSlot, "sword", skeleton.GetAttachment(swordSlot, "gold_sword")); // probably isn't done this way...

    skeleton.SetSkin(customSkin);
    skeleton.SetSlotsToSetupPose();

}
   
}

However this approach seems to be closer to what I'd do if I wanted to attach Sprites, not copy Skin slots to a new skin for the character to wear.

But as my character is comprised of slots dictated by Skins, it seems like there's no attachments, just slots.
It seems this is why the script above throws errors too. It returns null when it tries to do skeleton.GetAttachment(), no matter what name I give it.

I am so lost though, every tutorial that I found seems to be about Spine 3.6 or some other older version and doesn't work anymore. Is there any way to do what I need?

This is how my character is setup:

Harald

Please find this blog posting by Nate which provides some helpful links that summarize the setup of skins and usage in runtimes: Combining Skins

Also please have a look at the Mix-and-match example project that comes with the Spine Editor. There you can have a look at the setup of slots and skins.

You can also find documentation at the spine-unity documentation pages:
spine-unity Runtime Documentation: Combining Skins

We have also just added a new example scene "Mix and Match Skins". It demonstrates how the 3.8 Skin API and combining skins can be used for a wardrobe and equipment use case. Hope you like it!

You can download the updated spine-unity 3.8 unitypackage here as usual:
Spine Unity Download

alexandervrs

Thank you, these along with http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-runtime-skins gave me an idea on what I had to do.
I made a method like this:

/// <summary>Sets one or multiple Skin-based items</summary>
/// <param name="skinItemNames">An array with the names of the skin items to be visible in the new skin</param>
public void SetSkinItems(SkeletonAnimation spine, string[] skinItemNames)
{

Skeleton skeleton = spine.Skeleton;
Skin currentSkin = spine.Skeleton.Skin;
SkeletonData skeletonData = skeleton.Data;

Skin customSkin = new Skin("custom");

customSkin.AddSkin(currentSkin);

foreach (string thisSkinItemName in skinItemNames) {
    customSkin.AddSkin(skeletonData.FindSkin(thisSkinItemName));
}

skeleton.SetSkin(customSkin);
skeleton.SetSlotsToSetupPose();

}

Now everything works fine C:

Harald

Great to hear you've figured it out, thanks for letting us know! 🙂