Moving animation from ONE file to ANOTHER

ddudek

Hi everybody,

Firstly I have to say - thank to authors very much for this awsome tool!

Point:
I really need to move animation from one file (i.e. character_copy.spine) to another (character.spine). All the assets are the same, in the same drawing order etc (copied file). Is there ANY possibility to move animation that was made in other file (character_copy.spine) to original one (character.spine) ?

crtl + C -> crtl + V does not work (should?)

I'm interested in any possibility/hack, even that involves manual binary edit etc etc, I'll handle it.

Anyway, how do you set up your animations? Do you sometimes put different animations in separate files or are you always gathering all the animation in one file?

Preview of what I want to do:
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Søren

You can use Import Project and then choose Animation to get an animation from a different project skeleton onto another one.
As for your other question, I always make sure that I put all animations in the same project.

Pharan

Sometimes, some animations really need you to swap entire skeleton setups. This is a really vague area right now for Spine.
But all the same, I think having related skeletons in one Spine project file helps with the workflow.

ddudek

How could I have missed that feature... :think:

Anyway, thanks. Sadly - I've got editor crash when importing particular file that is a bit important for me. Anyway, I submitted crash report, and I'll try to figure out the way. I guess there are some differences in skeleton which might be an issue.
On other/sample project works quite OK, that is - without crash.

Also would love to have some more manual way to merge project, as now I see that when there are small differences in skeleton, animation import does not work well. That is - animation is stripped out of parts that were a bit different (i.e switched form simple attachment to mesh ). And now I feel like I'm having no control / no possibilities to find a way.

How should I try to merge them? should I try to manually replicate changes from the destination file?

Our animators unfortunatelly made each animation in separate file, I'm trying to find some way to gather them up back to one.

Søren

You could maybe try exporting the JSON (with non-essentials checked) and then merging the JSON files manually. It's generally bad practice to make the animations in separate files especially if there are changes to the skeleton. Names need to be the same to merge them and it also won't work if you are using regular quads in one file and meshes in another. But like I said you can try merging the animations from the skeleton that does not use meshes into the one that uses meshes.