keyframe all bones

Gnaws

My apologies for the Newb question - I just started using Spine.

How do you set a keyframe for ALL bones at Frame 0?

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I figured it out after discovering the cheat sheet. =]

Ctl+L, btw

Pharan

This isn't advisable though.
Why do you want to key all bones?

aiat_gamer

Pharan wrote
This isn't advisable though.
Why do you want to key all bones?

Really?! Why not? I thought you had to key everything for the first frame!

Pharan

Every keyed item incurs a little bit of performance cost. Not much.
But if you spawn several of that skeleton in game, it can add up fast.

You should really only key things you need to animate, as a general rule.

It also makes the dopesheet a bit of a mess to work with.
Eventually, you have a bunch of keys and you don't know if they're posing something or animating or doing nothing and which ones are doing what. This part is true even in AfterEffects or Blender or other programs with dopesheets... except other programs may have better indicators for key values.

aiat_gamer

Pharan wrote
Every keyed item incurs a little bit of performance cost. Not much.
But if you spawn several of that skeleton in game, it can add up fast.

You should really only key things you need to animate, as a general rule.

It also makes the dopesheet a bit of a mess to work with.
Eventually, you have a bunch of keys and you don't know if they're posing something or animating or doing nothing and which ones are doing what. This part is true even in AfterEffects or Blender or other programs with dopesheets... except other programs may have better indicators for key values.

Oh snap, in the run tutorial I say they did it like that so I thought that was the way it was supposed to be...It is kind of hard to know in advance. For that I guess I need to key only the bones I want to animate one at a time for the first frame.

Pharan

As long as your game didn't actually noticeably slow down, its fine.

The old implementation of Spine's AnimationState code required that you either do that or let the skeleton reset for every new animation you played (which was vaguely more performant at runtime but also allowed the animator to not need to mess up their dopesheet.). That's why it was recommended before.