Can we reuse mesh in unity replacing another sprite?

chales.joshua

We have several equipment slots for our game
What is the best way to do this? Can we swap sprites in existing mesh in unity?
Is there a way replacing sprites at runtime that are created as meshes?

after adding Skeleton Renderer Custom Materials the result is the image below

Pharan

Just replacing the material doesn't work because the UVs would be mapped to the wrong place. It would only work if you made an alternate atlas that exactly has the same layout as the original atlas.
As such, SkeletonRendererCustomMaterials is probably not the correct solution for you.

Please check the Linked Meshes part of the Spine editor documentation.
Linked Meshes allow multiple meshes to have different images but share the same mesh and deform animations.
I have also posted some sample code to solve some possible needs on the runtime side. Create a Linked MeshAttachment at runtime

chales.joshua

Thank you for your response
I am working with Spine 3.2.01
I've tried to use the linked meshes in spine but we have different sized images and meshes for the armor.
Can you be more specific or is there a tutorial that I can follow?
Thanks in advance.

20 Sep 2016, 02:03

We are able to use linked mesh in unity, we can now change the armor of our character using one mesh though the armor is a little bit stretched because of different shape and size of the image. I think I can fix that in spine by setting the mesh that will fit to all.
The problem is when we play the animation in unity the armor is changing.
Any suggestion on how to fix this?

Pharan

Linked meshes are useful but you don't need to define a mesh that fits all variations.
I was a bit confused since you mentioned "reuse", so one assumes you needed to reuse the same mesh shape.
If that's not the case, your case is very normal and you only need to use Skins.

If your case is more like equips, you still need to understand Skins, but after that, look at this thread: Equips, Customization and Mix and Match

chales.joshua

Thank you Pharan for your immediate response

I use a lot skin placeholder before, I named it "Shirt 1-15" "Short 1-15" "Gloves 1-15" "Boots 1-15" and there's a mesh in every part but we have to remove it and use only one skin placeholder per part because I will export a lot of equips someday and it will affect the speed of the game. Right now we have four texture for our character when I export.
I'm still learning the workflow
Thanks again for helping

22 Sep 2016, 02:51

I don't know if Skins will help right now, because when I replace the image in skin placeholder the image that is converted to mesh is removed. I followed the tutorial in Skins, the goblin and goblin girl example. Will I edit it again converting it to mesh?
Sorry for dumb questions. Again, Thanks for helping.