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Cutscene setup

x35mm

Hi,

I'm curious as to the best way to approach animating cutscenes featuring several characters. At the moment, each character is a seperate spine file and my engine handles basic cutscenes (move here, play this animation, move here.. etc). Now I want to improve the animations and it would be much easier to do complex cutscenes inside of Spine.

My question is how best to go about this?

Say I have my main character as a skeleton. Can I import another skeleton into his file for a single animation? How would I go about animating all the skeletons in one animation? Do they all need to be parented to the same root bone?

Any info is appreciated!

Søren

You can export a skeleton with Nonessential data checked. Then open up your main project and import it. You'll then have multiple skeletons in your project and you can animate them together. Keep in mind draw order is stored locally on each skeleton but you rearrange the order of your skeletons to change the draw order of them. They don't all need to be parented to the same root bone since each skeleton will have it's own root.

x35mm

Thanks for the reply!

So that would allow me to animate them both at the same time inside of Spine. I believe that would mean each skeleton still has its own set of animations and it would be up to my engine to sync the animations for all the skeletons (which is what I'm currently doing).

What I was hoping was that I could have one single animation that animates more than 1 skeleton in order to easily have the skeletons interact without having to skip backwards and forth making sure that all the animations sync up together. Importing them seems to make that job a little easier, but it still means I have to call play on each skeletons animation rather than triggering one single animation, and my engine making sure that the skeletons are in the correct positions to start with.

I'm guessing the only way to do this is to build a spine file specific for the cutscenes which includes all the characters bound to a single root bone.

Thanks anyway, I'll keep messing around with it. Despite me still learning, I do find myself actually enjoying animating - it used to be such a chore! =)

Nate

Shiu a écrit
You can export a skeleton with Nonessential data checked. Then open up your main project and import it.

You can also use Import Project and import directly from the project file, no need to export to JSON.

Note you can also click Spine, New Skeleton to add new skeletons to a project.

To avoid animating multiple skeletons, you would have to have all your bones under a single skeleton. We will do more for making cut scenes easier in the future.

x35mm

Thanks for the info!

Seems I was heading in the right direction. I'll make sure to post some clips of my game in the showcase section soon, Spine has been a major improvement to it! :clap:

slajerek

Actually a full-featured cut scene editor is what is still stopping us from buying Spine. In our games I have my own animation engine with keys, curves, timelines etc., also we have some simple animation and fixtures/polygons editor and of course full Box2D integration. I spent a lot on this and adding sound effect and music was a must from our designers. In addition I have some top-level editor that aggregates scenes into one big movie and is able to pre-load and unload resources asynchronously during movie playback.

I'm almost keen to switch to Spine for the fact that the Spine editor is nice and user friendly. Mine is a bit less user friendly :-) anyway, fact that I need to integrate Spine's engine to mine and lack of these must features suspend us from fully moving to Spine.

Thus music, sounds timeline and top-level scenes aggregation into one movie/cutscene are the features we really would like to have.

mfedorov

IMHO: Spine stuck in a stage of development, there is no investment, enet development.