4.2 UE 5.3 Animation without physics

Cream

UE window on the left.

Cream

Help me, please.

I realize you have a lot of work to do.

Mario

Apologies! Looks like there's a bug in spine-ue which prevents the skeleton from being updated via the delta time. I'll fix this first thing tomorrow morning.

Cream

Mario Thank you so much for your hard work)

Mario

@Cream could you send me your Spine project? While I've found one issue, it is not related to what we see in your video. I need the project to reproduce this specific issue.

Cream

Mario

test.spine

977B

Of course.

Cream

Mario Is there anything else I can do for you?

Cream

Mario Sorry for the insistence.
Is there any news?

Nate

Sorry it was a holiday yesterday (Wednesday) so many of us were busy doing family things. Mario will be here to help you first thing Thursday (likely 4-5 hours from now).

Cream

Nate Do not forget about rest either)

Okay, I'll be waiting.

Mario

I'll be looking into this today and will report back here.

Cream

Mario Thanks)

Peace, Labor, May!

Mario

I was unable to reproduce your issue. What I've done:

Export your Spine project with Spine Professional version 4.2 to both .json and .skel (also exported the atlas). Generated files are test-data.json, test-data-binary.json, test.atlas and test.png.
Opened our Spine-UE example project
Dropped the files into the Content Browser
Created a new level, and a new actor inside the level
Added a SpineSkeletonRenderer and SpineSkeletonAnimation component to the actor
Set the Atlas property of the SpineSkeletonAnimation component to test
Set the Skeleton Data property of the SpineSkeletonAnimation component to test-data (and test-data-binary in another test, to check if binary data has issues)
Set the Preview Animation property of the SpineSkeletonAnimation component to Test

This works as intended, just like our celestial circus scene (Getting Started/10-physics), which also makes use of the physics feature.

Are you sure you are using the latest spine-ue runtime from our 4.2 branch? Are you sure you also copied the latest spine-cpp runtime over to the plugin as described here:
https://en.esotericsoftware.com/spine-ue#Installation

Cream

Mario I think I've figured out the differences.

Physics only works in actor?
Widgets don't support physics?

Cream

Created the actor, everything works.

It remains to be seen if this is possible in widgets?

Cream

Then you'd have to run somewhere at the actor level, put the camera in and render to texture animation?

Mario

Apologies, I didn't gather from your posts that you are using widgets. There was indeed a bug in SpineWidget.cpp which prevented physics from being updated. I've just pushed a commit. Please pull the latest code from the repository.

Cream

Mario And I'm sorry, I forgot to specify this information.

Cream

Everything works great!

Thank you so much for your quick help)

And a little feedback about the physics - it's FANTASTIC!
So user friendly and makes it so much easier to create animations.

Thank you for your work!)