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Character Customisation w/ Spine

newcomma

Hi There,

We're looking into trying to handle 2D character customisation, where each we have a few options (hats, shirts, trousers) that are applied to our base character. I was curious as to whether

a.) Someone has already attempted this and solved it in a nice way that allows for sensibile atlassing and easy authoring through spine

b.) Spine or anyone else has some suggestions as to the kind of workflow to swap in and out textures per bone could be handled with potentially a dynamic and increasing number of customisable clothes that may grow as the game grows.

Any thoughts or tips on how to go about it would be appreciated, cheers

newcomma

BinaryCats

Hi,

Spine certainly can help you with that functionality! We do a similar thing. The feature you're looking for is skins* http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-skins .

First you need to decide if you're having full costumes, or bits and pieces (i.e. you might have a costume which is a lumberjack, or you might be able to switch in and out the different items of clothing). This will decide how you will set your skins up, if you are doing the former, it is easier(albeit more restricting) to have a skin for each costume i.e. lumberjack. If it is the latter you will want skins for each of the items of clothing you are switching out i.e. hat, t-shit, boots etc.

judging on your previous posts you are using unity, I am unaware of how that handles switching skins, but in C runtimes switching costumes can be a 'pain' (not really). If you go from a costume where one placeholder is filled, to another which is empty it will keep the old skin image, even though there is no image for that placeholder.

*There is also another method, you can use animations to turn the visiblilty of slots on and off, this holds some advantages niche over skins, but unless you need to use the animation stick to skins

newcomma

Thanks for the response,

So by costumes I mean I want to switch out individual pieces of clothing, ie select from a set of hats/boots etc.

You mention I should set it up to have skins for these items, do you mean a skin per category of item, e.g. a hats skin, or a skin per individual item?

I'm not sure how this extends, perhaps it makes more sense to have a slot per item per bone rather than seperate skins?

BinaryCats

newcomma написав
Thanks for the response,

So by costumes I mean I want to switch out individual pieces of clothing, ie select from a set of hats/boots etc.

You mention I should set it up to have skins for these items, do you mean a skin per category of item, e.g. a hats skin, or a skin per individual item?

Your skines should look something like this:

Skins

Hat1
Cloak1
Shoe1
Hat2
Cloak2
Shoe2

And your place holders would be:

HatPlaceHolder
CloakPlaceHolder
ShoePlaceHolder

Depending on how many items, this can be a pain to deal with - more setting it up than anything, but once its done, its done. There is ways to do this in code, but as you're posting in editor forum I will stick to this answer.

newcomma

Thanks for the quick response, eventualy I'm hoping to scale this to many items, so perhaps it would be too much of a pain to do this through the editor, what thoughts do you have on doing it through code instead? If it's easy to replace the textures associated per slot per bone then maybe this would be more sensible to do it data driven and build the textures up on the fly based on player configuration?

Additionally in your example, is it not the case that only one skin can be active at any given time? Which means it wouldn't really be possible to mix and match the hat's/cloak's/shoe's?

BinaryCats

I cant get back to you about the code, haven't explored that yet though. Pretty much all you will have to do is create an attachment and set the slot to that attachment.

When changing skins (c runtime) it only replaces the slots which the skin uses, i.e. you would need to do

1)setskin(hat)
2)setskin(cloak)

this would make the hat and the cloak viable as they are using different placeholders/slots

newcomma

Ace thanks for the response, I'll ask in the runtime forum re. creating an attachment dynamically

Pharan

@newcomma
What runtime are you using?
This has been brought up here before. Look up "mix and match" here in the forums.