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Photoshop to Spine Skins + Questions
I am fairly new to Spine and had a few questions about it.
I have an artist creating a character for me. What's better, me cutting up the character's body parts into separate images, or have the artist do it for me? Can either way be done and if so, it would be done in Photoshop? Or is it better for the artist to create the body parts separately and not draw a whole connected character at first?
I have a character and the character has about 5 outfits. The only thing that needs to change is the outfit for the character. Can I make a skin contain just the outfit or does a skin contain everything about the character (all the art)? I am confused about skins.
I am also confused on the Photoshop to Spine tags and how to order things correctly with that. I saw a forum post on here but still am not sure. You create a [skin] and then underneath that you create a [slot] that contains all your changeable facial expressions (in my case), and then where does the rest of your art go?
I have 5 outfits and about 3 facial expressions that change.
Hello! You definitely want the artist to cut the parts for you, because the parts behind what was cut will need to be redrawn otherwise, and you'd want the style to be consistent. It should be done in Photoshop, yes.
Ideally, the artist should create the body parts separately. Not a whole drawing, which would be harder to cut later.
You can choose to have skins that contain complete characters or skins that have just the outfits. The first is useful if you're just exporting videos or gifs, the latter is great to recombine at runtime.
The rest of the art goes into that [slot] folder, either as a plain layer, or as a group with the [merge] tag (that will be exported as a single png file just as if it was a single layer)
More about the mentioned topics:
Skins: Skins - Spine User Guide
Photoshop to Spine documentation: spine-scripts/photoshop at master · EsotericSoftware/spine-scripts
A video series that demonstrates the process from assets creation to rigging:
Spine Twitch Streams - YouTube
Thank you Erikari!
Yeah, I looked at both the skins user guide and the Photoshop to Spine documentation before asking on here.
It makes a lot more sense now. 