Customizing character during runtime

Snake

Hello
I am new generally to Unity (and exploring spine as it is recommended by a friend).
I am planning to have the animation created in spine and exported (possibly in json or any other format) then used by spine runtime.

The animation is created in greyscale color.

During run time, I would like to
1) swap out/in the different bones depending on the user selection (male, female, short hair, long hair..etc).
2) The user would be selecting components color from a color pallete (say red hair, brown hair..etc)

My question is can you give me pointer how to achieve the above? Any sample code that does that so I can take it from there an expand on it?
Thank you
PS: I am using c# and planning to go for the Essential package.

13 Sep 2016, 00:56

No answer here 🙁?

Pharan

I think you have quite a few of the terms mixed up there. You may have trouble searching the forum for things.

Bones are invisible and represent transformations. They are symbolized by those pointy gray things in the editor.
Images are called Attachments.
Attachments belong in Slots, and slots belong to bones. If you've tried Spine, you will see what this means in the skeleton's hierarchy.
Slots can have animated colors which affects the way its attachment is colored at runtime.

There's no one answer for what you're trying to do but the Spine-Unity unitypackage has many examples that serve your needs.
The runtime also includes modules which handle simple cases, but also serve as sample code for more complicated cases.
All Spine runtimes are source-available for this purpose.

Some parts of this video may be a helpful intro. Spine Unity Sprite Attachments - YouTube

Snake

Thank you.
Yes I am getting things mixed up and your answer cleared some of the confusion.
I will check the references and see if I ca figure my way out
Thank you

15 Sep 2016, 11:03

Hello

So I spent good time understanding the concepts and I think I got it.
I figured out how to color the part by grabbing themail slot and setting color on it .

Now I am trying to figure out how to swap images . For example I have a head with hair slot . This can be short , long , curly ..etc.

So I was thinking of creating a hair slot in spine editor and add the different hair styles images as attachments
Then during runtime , I set the attachment I want .
Is this the right way ? Or do I create another atlas of different attachements and pick /load the image from there ..etc

Thank you

Xelnath

Snake, take a look at Skins and Multiple textures per attachment

Snake

Thank you Xeinath.
I checked the skins. But it seems skin would be the case if I have the whole skeleton pre-determined.
In my case, the user can customize any body part (really there will be over possible 200 combinations).
So in that case the skin wouldnt make sense, correct?

Xelnath

In that case, you might be able to generate a texture at run-time and change the material's reference.

Snake

Thanks. So you dont think having the attachements there and just swapping them is a good idea?

I wish there was an example/video of this because I am pretty sure it is come common thing to do ( Maybe it is there and I am just not finding it)