I have just purchased 100 Animated Monsters. They are authored in Spine Software. The publisher says you only need the runtime to use the Monsters in your game. So far, I have successfully animated the Monsters but I now have to do collision detection. The first character I have tried is a bit like a Dinosaur and he moves quite rapidly as a figure. I believe I need to attach bounding boxes to skeletal bones in Spine Software. I may also need the Pro version as they Monsters all have Meshes. I have contacted the publisher via email but so far no response. Do I need the Software? Which version? Thanks
Collision Detection on Spine Animations in Unity
The publisher should have made it clear that to use the Spine Runtimes you need a Spine license. If they didn't, then I would say that is misleading at best and dishonest at worst. Please see the Spine Runtimes license:
http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-runtimes-license
If the skeletons have meshes then yes, you will need Spine Professional. Your Spine license allows you to run any version of Spine. I suggest using the latest stable version, currently 4.1. You could also use 4.2 if you want to use physics, but 4.2 is currently beta. Note you need to keep the editor and runtimes on the same version:
http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-versioning#Synchronizing-versions
If they provided .spine project files, you can open those with the same or newer version of the editor. You can then make changes and export new data files.
If they provided only data files, first run the version of Spine that was used to export the skeleton data. You can open the data with a text editor to see the version. Import the data into that version, then save the project as a .spine file. Now you can open that with the same or newer version of the editor, make changes, and export new data files.
Lastly, I suggest setting up scripts to export all your projects. We provide some scripts here:
EsotericSoftware/spine-scriptstree/master/export
There is documentation there but we'll soon also publish a blog post and videos on how to use these scripts. The scripts make it easy to re-export all your skeletons so you can update to newer editor and runtime versions in the future.
Thanks for the reply. All of the Monsters are in Spine 4.0. I believe all project files are included.
Cool, then you can just open them and go! You can open them with the trial to see how adding bounding boxes goes (but the trial can't export or save).