Any news about Spine-Mecanim ?

RemDust

Hi guys !
I'm having a hard time finding the latest news about Spine-Mecanim integration.

From what i understand there is a skeletonAnimator working with the "mecanim generated" skeleton but we then lose mostly any benefits from Spine at runtime including transition blending. not an option for me. 🙁

I remember that MagicPanda came up with another solution with skeletonAnimation and using mechanism as an fsm. Is there any "official" thread about it ? 🙂

Lastly I screened a picture of a guy's setup from another forum, since I can't remember who and here -_-
But I haven't seen this in Spine forum, do you guys have any clue/thoughts about it ? :wonder:

Anyway, you've got the point here : what is the current "good" solution to work with Mecanim, and are they any plan for an fsm or any visual solution for Unity ?

NB : the game I'm working on will be heavily "pattern oriented" and the use of mechanism would be a HUGE deal to manage this. :whew:

BinaryCats

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is one reason we moved away from it, despite a month developing time. its a spiderweb and bloody hard to work with. its a spiderweb of confusion

not using it is, in my opinion much easier (programmer) and gives you a lot more control of what you want to happen

RemDust

I understand your point of view but I'm quiet used to Mecanim and I work with substates which helps you keeping a (relatively) clear organization ^^
Also, from a "team sharing" perspective, it's really useful for me to be able to say :

well, as you can see guys, enemy n3 cannot trigger a slash attack when he just used his tornado power
or
player knows that when he got smashed by this attack, he has to dodge a slash followed by a kick"

And from this combo/pattern point of view, i find mecanim really useful if you use it well (I don't use it 100% I actually hardcode the player state and use mechanism only to deal with transitions time and patterns )

BinaryCats

we have >30 attacks, with multiple combos. I could never find a way to not make it look like a spiderweb, even with using substates. (when I integrated mecanim, I was new to unity and it was part way through the project )

RemDust

Well, I don't say that Mecanim is the ultimate solution... I'm fully aware that it depends on your project.
I'm just asking if your project could take benefits from Mecanim, what would be the up-to-date way to do it ^^