Hi,
I've tried to reproduce your issue using the spineboy-mesh.spine project that comes as an example for Spine. I saved the export settings in the editor and exported from the editor to export/. Then i exported from the CLI using:
./Spine
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input ../../../examples/spineboy/spineboy-mesh.spine
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output /Users/badlogic/Desktop/export2/
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export /Users/badlogic/Desktop/spineboy-mesh.json
Finally, I did a diff between the resulting JSON files:
diff /Users/badlogic/Desktop/export/spineboy-mesh.json /Users/badlogic/Desktop/export2/spineboy-mesh.json
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< "skeleton": { "hash": "U+e8jqpZrH1fDLO/0R/aO7yXyps", "spine": "3.4.01", "width": 0, "height": 0, "images": "./images/" },
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"skeleton": { "hash": "VINkfhwM1ewwp32eV9+fiLvUsH0", "spine": "3.4.01", "width": 0, "height": 0, "images": "./images/" },
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< { "name": "rear_foot_ik", "parent": "root", "x": 61.9, "y": 0.42, "color": "ff3f00ff" },
< { "name": "rear_ankle_ik", "parent": "rear_foot_ik", "x": -33.9, "y": 37.33, "color": "ff3f00ff" },
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< { "name": "hair4", "parent": "hair3", "length": 80.28, "rotation": 83.7, "x": 62.22, "y": -0.03, "color": "e0da19ff" }
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{ "name": "hair4", "parent": "hair3", "length": 80.28, "rotation": 83.7, "x": 62.22, "y": -0.03, "color": "e0da19ff" },
{ "name": "rear_foot_ik", "parent": "root", "x": 61.9, "y": 0.42, "color": "ff3f00ff" },
{ "name": "rear_ankle_ik", "parent": "rear_foot_ik", "x": -33.9, "y": 37.33, "color": "ff3f00ff" }
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---
"vertices": [ 2, 14, 18.17, 41.57, 0.72255, 15, 12.46, 46.04, 0.27744, 2, 14, 24.08, 40.75999, 0.57406, 15, 16.12, 41.34, 0.42592, 2, 14, 29.8, 39.97, 0.47663, 15, 19.67, 36.77, 0.52336, 2, 14, 32.8, 41.66, 0.37452, 15, 22.99, 35.89, 0.62547, 2, 14, 37.86, 44.51, 0.24772, 15, 28.6, 34.4, 0.75227, 2, 14, 42.65, 47.21, 0.17783, 15, 33.91, 32.98, 0.82216, 1, 15, 64.15, 14.56, 1, 1, 15, 64.51, -5.87, 1, 1, 15, 21.07, -6.63, 1, 2, 14, 35.38, -16.16, 0.99998, 15, -15.54, -7.28, 1.0E-5, 2, 14, 3.1, -48.81, 1, 15, -61.44, -8.09, 0, 2, 14, -26.72, -19.31, 1, 15, -62.18, 33.84, 0, 2, 14, -45.95, -0.29, 1, 15, -62.66, 60.88, 0, 1, 14, -30.14, 15.69, 1, 2, 14, -1.84, 44.31, 0.91511, 15, 0.05, 61.98, 0.08488 ],
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---
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---
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It appears there's indeed a difference between exporting meshes from the editor and the CLI. We are looking into it. I filled an issue here: [3.4.01] Export from editor produces different #vertices than export from CLI · Issue #81 · EsotericSoftware/spine-editor · GitHub