Unity + Spine, force update with using of mecanim adding new events, huh?

sohawkus

Hello!

Recently I wanted to update some of my animations and fix some event timings in them, and I found that when you updates spine animation in Unity and push "Force Update" to refresh them for your mecanim animator - mecanim doesn't remove the old events that were taken from the previous version of the Spine animation...

So I finally discovered why some of my characters were calling two identical events, and why I sometimes heard two sounds instead of one - all this time, all these years! Now I understand why so many issues disappeared whenever I deleted the Mecanim Animator file and created a new one for some animations.

How has nobody mentioned this in the last 5 years? %D

Or it was intended to be like that?

So... maybe it would be possible to add an extra runtime option like "Force Update + Remove Old Spine Events" to handle this case? Please? That would really help!

Spinebot

The issue you are experiencing with old events not being cleared when updating animations in Unity using Mecanim has been addressed in newer versions of the spine-unity runtime. The runtime now preserves user-added events and does not clear all existing events upon reimport. It adds a specific event string SpineEvent to events imported from the Spine skeleton, which helps differentiate them from user events. If you are using an older version of the runtime, you might encounter this issue, but updating to a newer version should resolve it. The suggestion to add a "Force Update + Remove Old Spine Events" option is a good idea, but the current solution involves ensuring you are using the latest runtime where this issue has been fixed.