Hey mate,

This message is stuck in my Outbox and I'm not sure if it sent or not.
The messaging on here is a little confusing, so I will forward it again just in case you didn't receive it - sorry if its a duplicate.

Hey, me again 🙂

Please ignore my last message and last files I posted.

I've been doing some testing, and got those 2 files I sent you working through the merger.

I went through both anims in Spine and renamed everything to be unique so there would be no conflicts when merging, and it wasn't until I remembered about Animation Names and changed those too that it worked.

So I think there may be an issue with renaming Animation Names.

Also, I am going to link you to a Spine file, in which I have merged 3 separate skeletons (3 directions down/down_right/right).

If you open it up in Spine and look at the way I have set it up in terms of bones (master_down, master_right etc) and the slots I created

DOWN

DOWN_RIGHT

and

RIGHT

Those empty slots are used for organising the DrawOrder, so if you open that up you will see each model is organised, easy to find and easy to edit and keep track of.

The bones give me a master_bone for each direction allowing me to easily move and handle them.

Sadly every time I add a direction (pet_down_right for example), this setup is completely messed up, I lose a couple of bones from both the 1st file and the 2nd file, and/or the heirarchy of bones is messed up,and the DrawOrder goes haywire and jumbled up again etc.

As well as this, after merging I get 2 things happen with the images in my slots.

The newly imported file has broken links (although they are correct) and you have to redrag all the images back in to get them working again, and then delete the old one - even though it's exactly the same path.

It also seems that with each subsequent merge I am getting duplicate slot entries for ones that I already cleaned up.

To fix these ones I just delete the broken path as there are both a working/broken link in the same slot after merging.

Here is the link to the spine file I mentioned in my post
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26955697/3-way-test.rar

Opening master_down will show you the duplicate slot image problem I mentioned.

Is there any way you could append the new (2nd) file at the bottom of the existing draworder, and also keep them in the order they were in in the original json?

if you need any help, feedback or testing please let me know, your tool is awesome it just needs a few tweaks! 🙂

Sorry for the massive post!

Hopefully speak soon!