The Spine Tutorial

[Donovan]

This tutorial, found at http://store.yoyogames.com/downloads/gm-studio/RSS/Tutorials/SkeletalAnimation.7z, is not working in GM Studio 1.4.1757. It loads at least, but the animation does not play.

When attempting to add a spine sprite to my other personal project, the runner crashes every time I do a play-build.

Is this a known issue, or am I missing something that I should know?

 

[JaimitoEs]

The gamemaker Runtime are updated and now you are unable to reproduce the animations getting a crash, because the asset example was exported from a previous Spine version....

If you are in GMS1.4 , downlad the 3.4.02 Spine version, open the Spine asset .json file on it, save the project in Spine and after export the asset with the newest version. Load the new sprite( json file) in the gamemaker project. That´s all, no more crashes.

 

[Donovan]

Oh. Hrm. That explains why the tutorial wasn't working. It ran, but didn't play the animations.

My personal project's crashes, however, may be because I am using Spine 3.5.41, and not 3.4.02. Let's try that, then.

 

[Donovan]

Yup, that was the issue ... Spine Version was too advanced. Thanks for the assist!

 

[Donovan]

Nope, still not working. After creating the skeleton in Spine 3.4.02, and exporting it in GMS 1.4.1757, I can get a still version of it, but still no animation.

In my create event, I have:

skeleton_animation_set("hover");

In my step event, I have:

if skeleton_animation_get() != "hover"{
skeleton_animation_set("hover")};

And that's it. This ought to produce animation, but it doesn't. And upon exiting the example, the Runner still crashes.

 

[JaimitoEs]

Nope, still not working. After creating the skeleton in Spine 3.4.02, and exporting it in GMS 1.4.1757, I can get a still version of it, but still no animation.

In my create event, I have:

skeleton_animation_set("hover");

In my step event, I have:

if skeleton_animation_get() != "hover"{
skeleton_animation_set("hover")};

And that's it. This ought to produce animation, but it doesn't. And upon exiting the example, the Runner still crashes.

Try with the lastest version of Spine, remember, load your asset in the last version,and before export with the newest version of Spine, you must to save the Spine project to update the asset json with the new features, after that you can export and load in gamemaker.

 

[rIKmAN]

If you are using 1757 try first using 2.1.27.
If that works try 3.0.10 and work backwards until it works again.

Spine support in GM is atrocious atm.

 

[Donovan]

I have the latest (paid) versions of both Spine and GMS, Jaimitoes. These are what I started with when I initially ran into this problem. I've retro-graded Spine from 3.5 to 3.4 in order to get the game to even start up without crashing.


Rikman, are you suggesting I abandon version 3 of Spine altogether and start with 2, then work my way up? Holy crap, this is way more complicated than I anticipated when getting back into this ...

 

[JaimitoEs]

After you are saved the project animation with the lastest Spine version, you can not revert the process, something you are doing wrong. After loaded and saved your Spine project , you can able to export correctly with the last version. Probaly is your gamemaker version, try to update with the last available beta 1763.

take a look at this:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...rting-spine-sprites-1-4-2-x.13492/#post-88891

 

[Arconious]

I noticed that the Early Access notes were updated yesterday (http://store.yoyogames.com/downloads/gm-studio-ea/release-notes-studio.html) and the Spine update seems to have been included in it, so hopefully soon GM:S 1.x and 2 will just perform much better with Spine (at least with version 3.4).

 

[Donovan]

So ... sorry for the delay in replying here.

The problem was the shear key. I wasn't using it, but I was keying it. Gamemaker doesn't understand what that is. Once I removed all of the shear keys, it worked. I had to read the notes Gamemaker was outputting in the compile window while loading the Spine sprite. That cleared it up right away.

For note, I am using Spine 3.4.02 and the latest build of GMS.