esoteric software spine one skeleton multiple poses

Separate skeleton per direction in something like, say, an 8-direction sprite like an old Zelda-like game or Ragnarok Online, would make sense, albeit needing some extra code and a few more json files.īut I'm talking about momentary changes in perspective for certain body parts, like an entire arm, or a foot, or a momentary change in perspective of all parts. On the topic of the best skeleton setup I need though: Thanks, Nate! That's good to know about GPU behavior. XDĪnyway, just as a feature of showing and hiding a whole set of bones and associated images (in a dirty way): does scaling a bone to 0.0 make the images on it not drawn and calculated at runtime?Īh. Not to mention the weirdness of binding those images to the bones in Setup Mode.)Īs you can imagine, it's pretty tedious right now without supporting features. (this latter option is also a mess because I'd have stuff like an arm foreshortened towards the camera but the bones pointing everywhichway. I'm even thinking of switching between whole character skeleton setups so I can just make a solid skeleton setup per pose and work some followthrough tweening from these instead of forcing one single base pose to contort and do a lot of image switching for every pose i need to do. same thing happens pretty much anytime foreshortening is involved). It's structured one way in front view, and structured another way in side view. (for example, a foot with the ball and the heel separated.

Because I'm doing a lot of faux x-axis/y-axis rotation on my skeletons, I often need to actually switch between sets of bones instead of just switch images- since many bones for a front viewing character wouldn't make sense for sideview, or some other weird angles.

Esoteric software spine one skeleton multiple poses