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Feature request: Test Mode

Abelius

Hi,

I'll admit it...: I've been unfaithful to Spine and I have been playing with another program. Creature to be specific. :$

And now I'm back again with Spine. I won't waste your time explaining why, but one thing's for sure: no software is perfect. Not Spine, nor its competitors.

That said, one thing I know I'll miss a lot about Creature is that useful 'Test Mode'.

It's basically a sandbox posing mode in which you can move around your toon. The good thing about it is that you can do whatever you want and when you return to the rig or animation mode no changes are saved.

And I think that is one mighty useful thing to have in Spine because, let's be honest, like it is now the undo functionality is a bit lacking. You don't have an edit -> undo "whatever thing you did" feature and you need to press Ctrl+Z and pray that whatever you did gets undone, nothing less nothing more. There's no history there and it's like shooting without aiming first.

So lacking that control, I think a 'test mode' in which you could pose the character to yours heart content would be great.

Thank you.

Abelius

Nate

Spine has a test mode: animation mode. Turn off auto key and nothing you do in animation mode gets saved.

It's true that there is nothing listing the names of the actions you've taken, but everything you do that modifies the project goes through the undo system. 🙂

Abelius

Hi Nate, thanks for your reply.

Mmm, I understand that you're suggesting to create a test animation and posing from there, right? Well, that could do I think.

About the undo feature, yes I know it works as intended but sometimes I find myself undoing a chain of changes and not being sure if I've stopped at the sweet spot or not.

A minor problem admittedly and I imagine this is the "price" for having such a nice UI that doesn't follow the traditional style. 😉

Nate

Yes, a test animation would work, though it doesn't really matter what animation you have visible. You can also just start posing and as long as you don't have auto key enabled, your posing will not be saved if you scrub the timeline or go to setup mode.

The fancy UI could have a fancy History view that shows the names for undo states. There are more than 200 places that modify the skeleton that trigger an undo state, we'd just need to give them all names. I know what you mean, that undoing a lot can make you wonder what is being undone, especially when you are undoing setup mode changes when you are in animation mode and vice versa.

Erika

When I need to test the poses I create a fake animation and start doing there the weird stuff. I leave auto-keying because I find the outcomes really amusing/sometimes inspiring/useful.
I do that because otherwise I'd forget to reactivate the auto-key function. When I'm done playing around and testing I just delete that animation, I discovered it is super-useful to have a little looping animation to set the weights since they're the only thing you can set in animate mode that will stay in setup mode as well.

Abelius

Erikari a écrit
... a little looping animation to set the weights since they're the only thing you can set in animate mode that will stay in setup mode as well.

Oh, I didn't knew that! That's a very good thing indeed. 🙂