keying an image

kwarn41

Hi,
i want to move, scale an image without bones, or move a particular vertex on the image. When i do that, there is no blending beetween the 2 states. By the past, to create a start key for an image, it was alt+ctrl +M. What is the solution with the last build of Spine please ?
Thanks for tour help

Nate

You need two keys for interpolation. Sounds like you need to create a key at frame 0, so it will interpolate between that key and your second key.

kwarn41

Yeah exactly Nate. In Spine, it is very simple to create a key for a bone, just click on the button ! But this is not the same for an image 😉 How can i create a key without moving, scaling... ?

Why there is no possibility to create a key without making a movement or a deformation to an image, like bone ?

Nate

A region attachment (an image) cannot be keyed directly. Instead you manipulate the bones to size and position region attachments. You may need to create a bone for each attachment if you want to manipulate them individually. This makes region attachments very efficient and they can be shared across multiple instances of the same skeleton.

To manipulate and key an image directly, you can use a mesh attachment.

kwarn41

Thanks Nate. I am not sure i explain correctly what i do... All my images have bones. Sometimes, i need to move a particular vertex. I don't use a bone to move this particular vertex. When i move this vertex, Spine create a key (normal). But in the first key, it doesn't. So what we do ? in the beginning of the work, we create a key for all bones for the first key and after, for each image, select all the vertes, move them for create a key. Even if i love Spine, it is really boring to do that.

By the way, in the meantime, i found the trick : move the vertex you want and after make crtl+shift+L. It create a key for the vertex of the image at the first key 😉

Another time : Spine is a great tool ! 🙂

Nate

Ah, thanks for the explanation. You need a key at the first frame if you want interpolation to happen from the first frame, so unfortunately setting those frame zero keys can't be avoided. The Key Dopsheet (ctrl+shift+L) shortcut is indeed useful, I'm glad you found that. Another approach is to set many keys at frame zero, then when your animation is complete, use the Clean Up button on the animation to remove unnecessary keys.