Apologies if this is a simple question. I'm new to animation.
I definitely want to use 2D for my game, but I would like to do a top-down game, rather than a side-scroller. I realize that for this I'll need to have animations to handle the various directions that my characters could travel (e.g. left/right, up, down). (Think Zelda or Final Fantasy).
It seems like the left/right animation can be a mirror of each other, but the up/down will need to be separate animations, at least for humanoid characters.
How would I go about doing this with Spine? Would I have to create 3 different character animations and then swap them out when the user switches direction?
It'd be cool if I could manage this all in one Spine project, but this seems like a specialized behavior for a pseudo 3D application.
Any advice is appreciated.