Esoteric Software

[vavius]

This is my second attempt to make high-performant Spine runtime for MOAI.

My first runtime was written Lua and used native Moai classes for animation. The performance was awesome, something about 5-10x faster than official Lua runtime (since all the heavy math was done in C++ by Moai internals). But it was really hard to keep features in sync with Spine editor, so I decided to write a C++ Spine bindings.

Features:

1. Bindings for official C-runtime. Native performance without overhead
2. Convenient MOAISpineSkeleton class (subclass of MOAIProp) with animation helpers
3. Procedural animation support - you can get instance of MOAIBone (inherited from MOAITransform) by name and link attributes, apply ease driver animations, etc.
4. Same applies to slots - animate visibility and color
5. Custom texture loader callback in MOAISpine to implement texture cache

This is a Moai plugin that works with plugin system from v1.5:
https://github.com/Vavius/plugin-moai-spine

[Søren]

Really cool, thanks for sharing. I'll let Nate know about this thread

[Nate]

Interesting to hear the performance difference. It's a decent approach to use spine-c. Added to the runtimes page!