Arbitrary Triggers in Animations

Krin

Hey,

I love Spine, I think it is a wonderful tool! I'm using it with AS3 and also with Unity and am very impressed.

I have one question to ask - is there any way to use Spine to insert arbitrary triggers into animations? I am making an RPG, and when the character attacks, I need the "hit" code to trigger exactly at a specific frame. That frame, however, is in the middle of the animation (not at the end) because there is sort of an 'after-swing' to the animation.

Sure I could use a timer, or even break them into two separate animations to achieve the same effect, but I think neither of those solutions are flexible or graceful. Ideally I would love to be able to insert arbitrary triggers into the animation timeline which I'd be able to listen to with the code so that I can perform functions on that frame.

Does anyone know any good solution to doing this?

Thanks 🙂

Søren

Glad you're liking Spine.

We have the event timeline coming https://trello.com/card/event-timeline/ ... c0059d9/44
For now one way you could do it is create a bone called triggers, and then using a naming convention create some empty slots you then change the visibility on when you want them to be triggered. Slots aren't meant for this but hey, it should work. Event timeline will remedy this.