the example folder and script folder are not created.

gunspike

If you download and install the latest spine from the latest link,

Mario

The new Spine Launcher no longer ships with examples and scripts, so we can decouple Spine Launcher releases from updates of examples and scripts.

Spine Editor versions >= 4.x download the example projects when you click on them. For older Spine Editor versions, you can download the latest examples from here:
Spine: Example Projects

The latest Spine scripts can be found here:
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-scripts/

gunspike

Please consider not including the scripts folder and the examples folder in the installation.

Students who are new to beginners and spines and are educated do not know the address and link provided. Please make sure that the script folder and example folder appear during installation as before.

And designers are also not familiar with how to download it from GitHub at the address above.

I hope it becomes a little more user-friendly Spine.

Beginners are increasingly difficult to access.

Erika

Hello! you may find this video helpful regarding scripts:

This video is also accessible in our user guide here: Images - Spine User Guide: Video

The example projects are also discoverable in our quickstart page: Spine Quickstart

but as Mario mentioned, just click on the example in the welcome page to have it automatically downloaded by Spine!
This way you still get them all 😃 but also have a lighter launcher download!

You can also find the downloads and explanations of the project in the more artist-friendly examples page:
Spine: Example Projects

The github link is just for the older versions, but I'd suppose students wouldn't go searching for older versions of the projects!

I hope this helps clarify a bit better what Mario meant 😃

Nate

The reason that the Spine installer no longer includes the example files is that the launcher can run different versions of Spine. If the newest launcher comes with examples for the newest Spine editor version, then if you run an older editor version it can't open the examples. Now that Spine downloads the examples, it will download the examples for the right version of the editor.

gunspike

Again, because only the launcher including the beta version is downloaded now, access to the previous example files and scripts is very difficult for beginners.

And now, in Korea, it is difficult to access this homepage, and I am very burdened with the GitHub address and how to download the script.

Since I'm an expert, I can follow along the way you told me without much difficulty, but beginners have no idea how to proceed.
I run a community in Korea, and I have struggled with this issue many times.

Please, find a way to approach the above problems easily even for beginners.

And you can download the example only from the first screen at startup. To see another example, you must restart Spine to see the first screen.

If you want to see a new example in the middle of your work, you need to restart Spine and download it.

It doesn't seem like a good way.

And thank you for always doing great work. 🙂

Nate

The envelope button at the top of the Spine window opens the welcome screen where you can access the examples:
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They are also available to download using a browser from the examples pages:
Spine: Example Projects

I do understand your other concerns about the examples. However, we want to include the newest example projects with the launcher

we are redoing them to have better animations that use the graph in Spine v4. If a user runs an older version of Spine with a newer launcher, the newer examples distributed with the launcher will not open at all. This is very bad because it would look like Spine is broken.

By downloading the examples we 1) make the installer _20MB smaller (important for people with bad internet connections, eg China), and 2) ensure that the examples can always be opened. There will be a short time (right now) where people run 3.8 and the examples are not there because we don't start downloading them until v4. In that case clicking an example in 3.8 takes you to the example page where the project can be downloaded. I'm afraid there is not really a better solution, but it won't be so bad over time, once people start using v4.

I think you have a stronger case for the scripts, since a user has to go out and find them. However, do users really look in a programs installation folder? I think most non-expert users probably don't. Even with scripts, it's good for users to know how to find the latest script so they can get newer versions as we make improvements.

FWIW, the latest Photoshop script is always at this URL:
http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-scripts/PhotoshopToSpine.jsx

BTW, we have recently created a page to try to help new Spine users get up to speed more easily:
Spine Quickstart
It is currently being translated to Korean, Japanese, and Chinese and that will be done very soon (in a day or so).

gunspike

There are a lot of new changes happening in 4.0.

Thank you so much for your kind answer.

Work well and keep making great tools.

Thank you for always. 🙂