Replacing meshed image with a higher resolution one?

hufei

Hey guys!
So i know that we can use a lower resolution image replace the current one while keeping the mesh working fine.
However when i try to get a higher resolution image to replace it, the image will get out of the mesh border. I wonder if there a way to fix it?
Thanks! 😃

Erika

Hello hufei! When you replace an image used by a mesh, a message should appear in Spine asking you how you want to handle the change of size.

If you choose yes, the image will go outside of the mesh borders if bigger, keeping the mesh coordinates the same, this way the vertex coordinates will stay the same, which is useful if you added details or additional parts to the same mesh.

If you choose no, the vertices will be scaled to the new size instead, and the mesh will be scaled down to keep the same size in the skeleton. Which is great if you just need to keep the same proportions at a new size.

hufei

Hi Erikari! Thanks for your reply!
Just gave it a try again and it seems the images resized function only works with 3.7 or higher versions.
Too bad we're using 3.6.53 for this project and it could be tough for us to upgrade the spine version at this moment :tear: However it always encouraging to know the software is getting better and better 😃
Thanks for your hard work!

bon

Hi! I'm using Spine 3.8 and I tried to replace a meshed image with a higher resolution, similar to what was described here.

I had a meshed image that i went back into Photoshop to increase the resolution. I then replaced it in Spine, and clicked "no" when prompted here:

However, while the mesh stayed the same, the image disappeared from the setup window. I thought maybe it was a UI bug, but when I tried to export, many pieces (not just the one I upresed) disappeared as well.

Is this function broken in 3.8, or is it user error? I didn't do anything with the skeleton or anything else in the setup.

Thanks!

Erika

Can you describe in more detail how the images disappear? And does the log output anything on export, or when the images disappear?

When this happens, could you please post your spine.log file? The forum will redact your personal information.

Windows: <user home folder>\Spine\spine.log
Mac: <user home folder>/Library/Application Support/Spine/spine.log
Linux: <user home folder>/.spine/spine.log

bon

Hi Erika!

I've attached the spine.log file and before and after of the mesh from replacing the up res. I selected "no" in the prompt to scale the texture coordinates. The images don't disappear, they are scaled down, even the images I didn't change. I only changed 2 images, and a bunch of them shrank.

The spine.log file just says this over and over again for all the images in the skeleton (even though I didn't up res in photoshop):
WARNING: Mesh image file dimensions changed: <PATH>*.png

Thanks for your help!

Ah, so I had upresed the Photoshop .psd, and reexported using the PhotoShopToSpine.jsx. If I take the actual *.png and upres that to look at in Spine, it's retains the shape.