How to target animations with Multiple Skeletons

kilopop

We need to load two skeletons into our Corona scene so that each can be inserted into their own group. We are able to load two separate Spine json files and apply them to skeletons but how do you then target a particular skeleton/state with animation.

We set skeletonData in a module called "Spine Trigger". It is run every time a new skeleton is required:

local skeletonData = json:readSkeletonDataFile("spineData/"..file..".json")
local skeleton = spine.Skeleton.new(skeletonData)

and setting animation with..

state:setAnimationByName(trackIndex, name, loop, 0)

But of course state only reflects the last execution of "Spine Trigger" so only the last skeleton will receive animation calls.

Do we need unique names for skeleton, skeletonData and state each time a new file is loaded? e.g. skeleton[1], skeleton[2]?

Any insights into working with multiple skeletons most appreciated.

Søren

I would just use unique names for the skeletons, I'm not aware of any other way to do it, but then again I'm a terrible programmer. I just took a look at https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spi ... ssets.java and I can see that Nate uses unique skeleton names in there, but maybe he knows of a different way to do it.

kilopop

Thanks Shiu. We have solved with unique names for skeleton but also unique names for state. As state relates directly to skeletonData which refreshes with each new file iteration.