[Unity] Workflow

Majicpanda

Requirements:
5 unique looking characters
Ability to swap weapons that look similar across all characters
Ability to swap equipped helmet, chest items across all characters
Equipment may conform or change appearance based on character (skinny female wizard vs fat barbarian, possibly just scale the images with deformation and hope it looks ok?)
Use same humanoid bone structure across all 5 characters

Given these parameters is it suggested to use the Sprite Switcher option "AddUnitySprite" and SetAttachment to swap images out at runtime and not have any of the images in Spine itself, or is it easier to swap skins and attachments by baking in all the images to Spine?

Mitch

This is an obnoxiously complex topic especially when it comes to memory management and loading/unloading stuff you don't need.
In terms of performance, embedding them all in a spine skeleton (or two, or three) is the best way to go as well as the only way to use Mesh shape/deform to tweak your size and scale for your various characters.

That being said, my 3rd character example w/ functional Unity example is called Equipman. It will literally be the golden ideal of how to deal with a character inventory that scales to being able to have oh say 50 unique costumes that you mix/match but also deal with loading/unloading. Probably won't be ready for another week or two though.
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