Sprite animation in 3D environment

OlafsOsh

Haven't started it yet, but a quick question.

My Scenes are set up in 3D environment and I am using A* Pathfinding fir moving the Hero. In one of the tutorials I just saw, that there were added 2D colliders. How easy it is to add this into 3D. Should be easy, right? Should not change much...

Image just as an example how it looks

Harald

The spine-unity runtime provides a lot of functionality for both 3D and 2D colliders/physics, e.g. there is both a SkeletonRagdoll 2D component for 2D and a SkeletonRagdoll component for 3D. Please note that there are a few exceptions, such as that the BoundingBoxFollower component only supports generating a 2D collider, as it is based on a 2D outline shape.

What exacly are you trying to accomplish?

[..] and I am using A* Pathfinding fir moving the Hero.

Just a note: judging from the screenshot A* seems rather unsuitable (as it's based on a 2D grid).

OlafsOsh

Harald ：
What exacly are you trying to accomplish?

Well, I have all the movement pretty much done, apart from actual Player avatar, which till now was just a dummy cylinder. Now I have the first animation from the animator-dude [should he implement that "SkeletonRagdoll 2D vs SkeletonRagdoll" thing upon creating an animation?] and I want finally put in an actual PlayerCharacter.
Already did that [just now, actually] and animation plays nicely. But it just plays itself, not responding to actual transforms movement.
So, to the question! I want to set up the guy, so when he moves, the correct animation is played. ALso, when he ascends/descends, there's not only correct animation, but also a correct feet placement upon the ground.

This tut shows [I have never dealt with Spine, so I am learning on the go] the adding 2d Colliders. Should I add just a Cyllinder. Rigidbody?

Harald

OlafsOsh ：
So, to the question! I want to set up the guy, so when he moves, the correct animation is played. ALso, when he ascends/descends, there's not only correct animation, but also a correct feet placement upon the ground.

Please have a look at the many example scenes that are included in the spine-unity package. SkeletonUtility GroundConstraint shall help you to figure out how to achieve foot placement on the ground, 5 Basic Platformer shows a full controllable platformer example. You have to decide for yourself however how you are going to trigger animations and movement from input, there are many ways to achieve this goal.

OlafsOsh ：
This tut shows [I have never dealt with Spine, so I am learning on the go] the adding 2d Colliders. Should I add just a Cyllinder. Rigidbody?

You can add whatever you like, the Spine components play back animation, you can combine it with 2D and 3D components that you want.

OlafsOsh

Hey. Learning on the go here.

Since I do not use button inputs, your mentioned example is not really the thing I would need. Also I have now around 20 tabs open with different tutorials and posts [well, maybe not exactly 20, but...] - and nothing really comes up. Is there any example or tut where SpineAnimations are on a charactercontroller Player, which is used with point and click movement system?

I do not know much, but at this point my head is melting and I am afraid I can't even see straight... Really would love to do this myself and not ask somebody do it, but I am close, really close...

Harald

Please note that you will not always find a tutorial or example scene which covers your exact combination of requirements.

Spine is only providing the animation framework, which should be layered on top of your gameplay mechanics. Above you mentioned that you already implemented your desired movement mechanics using a cylinder. If you already got this far, I would recommend adding the animation logic code to your existing setup. When you succeed in movig the cylinder to the right, you could as well play a walk animation (if it's not already playing). The example scene 5 Basic Platformer shows how animations can be triggered in a similar scenario.