SkeletonGraphic Animations in Unity

Aesop

Hi! I'm a begginer coding with Spine, I just never used the internal functions of it to code my animations (always used Mecanim + Skeleton Animator).

So here's my question (in c#): How do I code in SkeletonGraphic to switch between different animations?

Example:

private SkeletonGraphic skeletonGraphic;

[SpineAnimation]
public string customAnimation;

public void SetAnimation(string animation)
{
    animation = customAnimation;
    // HERE I WILL CODE THAT THE "CURRENT SKELETONG GRAPHIC ANIMATION" CHANGES TO MY "CUSTOM ANIMATION"
}

This Script will be attached to the SkeletonGraphic object, that's why I add a reference to this component.

Thanks for the support! 🙂

SOLVED:

OKAY! I didnt take a look at the API.... ye, I was so lazy....
In case this could be useful for anyone, there's the quick code solution:

private SkeletonGraphic skeletonGraphic;

[SpineAnimation]
public string normalAnim;

void Start()
{
    skeletonGraphic = GetComponent<SkeletonGraphic>();
}

public void SetNormal()
{
    skeletonGraphic.AnimationState.SetAnimation(0, normalAnim, true);
}

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IndieDoroid

Aesop wrote
Hi! I'm a begginer coding with Spine, I just never used the internal functions of it to code my animations (always used Mecanim + Skeleton Animator).

So here's my question (in c#): How do I code in SkeletonGraphic to switch between different animations?

Example:
private SkeletonGraphic skeletonGraphic;

[SpineAnimation]
public string customAnimation;

public void SetAnimation(string animation)
{
    animation = customAnimation;
    // HERE I WILL CODE THAT THE "CURRENT SKELETONG GRAPHIC ANIMATION" CHANGES TO MY "CUSTOM ANIMATION"
}
This Script will be attached to the SkeletonGraphic object, that's why I add a reference to this component.

Thanks for the support! 🙂

SOLVED:

OKAY! I didnt take a look at the API.... ye, I was so lazy....
In case this could be useful for anyone, there's the quick code solution:
private SkeletonGraphic skeletonGraphic;

[SpineAnimation]
public string normalAnim;

void Start()
{
    skeletonGraphic = GetComponent<SkeletonGraphic>();
}

public void SetNormal()
{
    skeletonGraphic.AnimationState.SetAnimation(0, normalAnim, true);
}
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Whew. 3 years later. But still super helpful! Thank you!~
I tried going through here:
http://en.esotericsoftware.com/spine-unity

But glad to have found your thread before I pulled out my hair. :rofl:

A neat little trick is to also create a small Enum. If you have a lot of animations you wish to cycle through.

 enum Expression { Happy, Sad, Idle }

public void SetNormal()
{
_skeletonGraphic.AnimationState.SetAnimation(0, Expression.Sad.ToString(), true);
}

Then you can ensure you won't have typo errors in the inspector!

Harald

Did you look at the example scenes and scripts? Spine Examples/Getting Started/* shows the most important things in the first three scenes.

IndieDoroid wrote
I tried going through here:
spine-unity Runtime Documentation
But glad to have found your thread before I pulled out my hair.

I'm sorry to hear that. Were these instructions not helpful?
spine-unity Runtime Documentation: Setting Animations
Or are you missing just the [SpineAnimation] part? I will add this to the documentation section soon, thanks for the hint!

IndieDoroid wrote
A neat little trick is to also create a small Enum. If you have a lot of animations you wish to cycle through.
Then you can ensure you won't have typo errors in the inspector!

How do you get typo errors in the Inspector? [SpineAnimation] string animationName provides you with a combo box where you can select each animation from a list, there is no way to misspell anything. If you don't want to use the [SpineAnimation] string, you could also use one of more AnimationReferenceAssets, as shown in Getting Started/3 Controlling Animation Continued.

Thanks for the feedback, we will improve the documentation!

We have now improved the documentation pages, now mentioning string property attributes where available:
spine-unity Runtime Documentation: Skeleton
We are also demonstrating AnimationReferenceAssets as a string alternative in code here now:
spine-unity Runtime Documentation: Setting Animations

We also added a section listing available property attributes here:
spine-unity Runtime Documentation: Scripting String Property Attributes

We hope that this has removed some more hurdles when beginning to use the spine-unity runtime. Please let us know if any important information is still missing that should be mentioned for beginners. Thanks again for your feedback!