2 Skeleton vs 1 Skeleton, with multi direction?

seminz

Hi we are creating with spine.
out Characters has two direction by front/back
if include flipping, it will be four.

i have questions on here.

which one is good to control or develop between 2 spine data(2 skeleton data)
like front spine has 'run', back spine has 'run' and
and multi animations like run_fr, run_br, idle_fr, idle_br on 1 spine data?

thx a lot

Xelnath

I found it easiest to just create separate slots and toggle between them.

Managing two skeletons is kind of annoying.

Zephyr

I think it depends.

In general I would rather recommend separate skeletons for front and back. If you put front and back on one skeleton, there is no general setup pose. You will always have to copy a manual setup pose on the first frame of each new animation.

Contrary to this, I personally use just one skeleton for multiple directions. But it's just due to the fact that I need isolated animations of the lower and upper body for different directions at the same time. That's quite a complex thing and I'm not sure if this is what you want to achieve.

Otherwise, I would go for separate skeletons.

With some trial and error you will quickly find out what suits best for you.