Cookie Lights and Spine Characters

IndieDoroid

Hi Harald

Unity 2021.3.15f1

I imported all my Spine 3.9 assets to 4.1 and updated the runtimes and URP Shaders UPM packages.

I got realtime shadows to cast onto the Spine 4.1 characters now. 😀

But I'm running into another roadbump.

#1. Geometry now casts shadows onto Spine characters . Great! ~

#2. Cookie lights don't cast shadows unfortunately. 😥

Do you know if it's possible for light cookies to work on Spine characters? 😅

Thanks for the continued support!

Harald

@IndieDoroid You are right, light cookies are indeed ignored. Sorry for the troubles and thanks for reporting.

We have created an issue ticket here:
EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes2285

IndieDoroid

Harald
Thanks Harald! Sorry for the trouble of bringing it up. 😂

Harald

@IndieDoroid A commit has just been pushed to the 4.1 branch which adds support for light cookies at the Universal Render Pipeline/Spine/Sprite shader. A new Spine URP Shaders UPM package is available for download here as usual:
https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-unity-download
Thanks again for reporting. 🙂

IndieDoroid

Harald Thanks so much Harald!!! 😀

IndieDoroid

Hi Harald

Are you experiencing this bug on your end?

The cookies seem to be flipped horizontally? 🤔

Harald

IndieDoroid The cookies seem to be flipped horizontally? 🤔

It does not look wrong, given that the light source is projecting from bottom-left direction. The contact points seem to line up perfectly at the feet at least. It's impossible to judge from a single image though.

You should be able to quickly test this by rotating the skeleton around the horizontal X-axis so that it's almost parallel to the ground.

IndieDoroid

Hmm actually something else is going on. 🤔

I did another test and the projections seem ok?

I need to check my cookies to see why they're doing this weird horizontal flip. 😓

IndieDoroid

Harald
good point! I guess my brain is expecting something that shouldn't be possible. 😅

Harald

IndieDoroid good point! I guess my brain is expecting something that shouldn't be possible. 😅

Sometimes these things can look counter-intuitive at first. 🙂