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Character Creation Question... Help Apprciated

MeesterB

I am quite new to this software and am trying to establish a workflow that will allow for a broad range of variety in my character set (crowds), while simultaneously being conscious of asset volume. I am trying to decide if importing various colored assets from PS for skin types and costumes... for eventual skin setup is the soundest approach. Or... Can I import fewer (white fill/greyscale) assets and address my color variation in Spine? Can you create a various skins from a single character using vertex colors?

Thank you for any help and input.

MeesterB

Erika

Hi MeesterB, and welcome!
As you guessed, you can use fewer assets and recolor them in Spine for different skins, by recoloring the attachments (and not the slots). You can see an example at around 44:22 of this video:

MeesterB

Hey Erika. Thanks for the response. I figured things out late in the day yesterday and they are working very well. Multiple skins.. Multiple colour variants achieved. So that that's great. Thank you for the link. I'll be watching even though this particular problem is resolved. All your vids are quite informative.

I'd love to pick your brain about creating unique costume elements in skins. i.e. Character A (skin 1) has one type of hat.. Character B (skin 2) has a different type of hat. I watched the video Soren did that touched on this (duplicate skin, find and replace..). But I'm a bit blocked. My goal was to try and create say 4 skins with different costume elements then a bunch of colour variants based on those. Does that sound like a logical approach?

Erika

MeesterB, glad you found them useful! Yeah, your approach seems very logical, and absolutely possible to achieve too!
Things you have to keep in mind:

The basic elements of your different skins must have the same proportions. This is simply because you will move them with the same skeleton so they need to have their core elements
The unique elements of your skin can vary greatly from the core proportions, just be smart about the controls you use to animate them, if they vary a lot but you can reuse a bone for different elements, then you're doing great! if you can't, try to color-code these specific bones so that you won't get confused.
One thing is changing a hat with a completely different one, another is having a hat that is basically the other hat but with different colors of textures. Soren's video shows you how to replace textures for this second case only.

Just in case you didn't already, you might want to have a look at linked meshes Meshes - Spine User Guide: Linked meshes and skins Skins - Spine User Guide

I think you'll find useful these two videos, in the first, two very different skins share the same rig from the start.

In the second, new skins are added. You can see the common elements are the eye color, the face, etc. while most elements differ and get integrated.

(hint: these videos are long, but in their description you can find a menu to navigate to what you prefer)

MeesterB

I'm definitely learning some of the things you're describing as I go along here. It definitely helps to hear some of my theories confirmed or squashed in your responses. Thanks again for the information. Going to watch these videos right now as I think they'll be relevant to what I'm doing currently.