In-Editor, Skeleton Attachment request

Xelnath

It looks like my job for the rest of the year is making diagrams like this one:

Right now, whenever the 'ball' hits a different creature, I have to hand animate or copy/paste keys (are local position keys a thing?) to make it flash and react.

It would be much easier if I could just animate the 'hit' once on a child skeleton, then 'play' that hit animation on the skeleton when a certain frame is reached in the current dopesheet. This would also mean that once I replace the placeholder monster with a real monster, I can test it without having to re-animate every example.

I know this is outside the scope of the in-game work you do, but being able to 'play' an animation on an Attached Skeleton in the dopesheet would be very useful when you add that feature.

Best regards,
Alex

Erika

You're basically talking about AE comps?

I think if you prepare the hit animation and then import the monster skeleton, you'll have the animation ready to be used, you'll just need to adjust the timing. Are all of those part of a single skeleton at the moment?

Pharan

Yeah, we've been talking about SkeletonAttachment for years. It enables a whole bunch of flexible and easy-to-use things. But it's a major refactor of the underlying system so, very likely not anytime soon.
If I had to guess, it would be a major Spine version, like Spine 4.0 or 5.0. But I don't make these calls. :p

If it's any consolation, I keep bugging Nate about this and want it badly.
Implementation details are pretty tricky though.

For now, Spine is really not ideal to make mockup animations for things like this. Easier to do it in Unity or Adobe Animate or something.

Xelnath

I'm managing tho - the path editor and bone stuff is so much easier to use in spine than in a raw unity editor.

Yes, its part of a single skeleton. Its an 'Arena' skeleton with 4 monster/target/player bones with some child bones for attached effects 🙂