[Unity] Changing Material on Baked Spine Characters

IEnumerator

Hello,

My company started using spine recently and I think it works great. my only problem right now is using Mecanim since it removes any dependencies on spine, we want to have different skins for our characters which you can buy from the store but how do I go about doing this? I noticed spine takes multiple atlas assets so I thought that I could export each skin by itself for the same set of animations, then create multiple atlas assets bake the characters and change the material on each child on each character's prefab, would this work? so basically instead of having 5-6 baked characters I would have one character with multiple atlases where each atlas maps it's material correctly to each slot's attachment.

Thanks.

IEnumerator

Mitch

Skins can have different attachment sizes or types. Hard to just do a material swap sometimes.

You know you can use mecanim without baking right?

IEnumerator

Hello Mitch,

I did not, I knew it would not be easy but wanted to know if it is feasible since spine offers offers the possibility of applying multiple atlases.

As for mecanim with spine, I did not know that can you please give me a lead? I will look into it right now but then what is the point of baking? I believe the performance of a baked character is not as good as spine's skeletal animator.. but it does offer a developer a chance to modify the keyframes of animations but takes away the whole purpose of using spine in the first place.

Thanks.

Mitch

Baking is basically just so you can sell your assets on the AssetStore without including the Spine Runtime (which is illegal if the end user doesn't own Spine).

Baking can also be used to do simple rigging tasks like background trees that don't really need the overhead of the Spine editor.

If you're using SkeletonAnimator, you can just set the skin at any time and it'll swap all the right parts in.