Changing lenght of image during animation

Wedrownik

Hello everyone !

I am working on the ESS Spine version and have a problem with an animation. I am trying to animate character which is eating and we see him from the front. There is no problem in the setup menu, all I need is click image and change size but in the animation mode cant click image, only bone and when I am trying to change bone's size albo connected bones+images change their size. One Idea I have is to put 2 same bones with same images and then, switch them but I had to create almost 2 times more bones with images what need much more work
Do you have any tip how to change image size without changing connected images ?

Wedrownik

Nate

Region attachments can only be transformed by bones in animations. You can use a bone just for the images you want to transform in an animation.

Wedrownik

But how change size of the main bone without changing size bones connected to this bone ?

Nate

Say you have a torso bone with a torso image attached that you want to change the size of. Scaling the torso bone does what you want, but also scales the arms and head which are attached to the torso bone. So, create a new bone that is the child of the torso bone, maybe named "torso image". Then move the torso image to be parented to the "torso image" bone. Now scale the "torso image" bone and your arms and head won't be affected.

Another solution could be to disable scale inheritance on the arms and head, allow you to scale or shear the torso without affecting the arms or head. However, a bone gives you more control, since you can also rotate and/or translate. Also note in 3.5 disable inherit rotate and scale will change slightly (see the beta).