Sprite Sheets in Spine

lemonjuice

Hi, really new spine user here, but im really enjoying the program. Just a couple questions about exporting sprite sheets though:

is there a way to set a number of columns/rows that the sprite sheet will export at? I currently have a project with 2 different animations im trying to export. One animation exported a sprite sheet with 8 columns, the other exported with 7. is there a way to normalize this?
how do i export particularly long animations? i noticed there is a max dimensions parameter and one of my sprite sheets that i exported is already close to the max.
is there a way to flip a skeleton and its attached images/animations in the setup mode? edit: figured out u can just scale by -1

Mario

There's currently no way to define the number of columns/rows, and it's very unlikely we'll add this feature. Read on.
If your animations don't fit into a single sprite sheet, it's very likely your runtime (game engine, framework) won't be able to display them either. You Again, read on 🙂

Why are you exporting to a sprite sheet? You lose essentially all Spine features at runtime this way, and you run into problem 2 a lot, especially if you use big image attachments.

What game engine/framework are you using? We have a multitude of runtimes to support the most common engines.

lemonjuice

badlogic ：
1. There's currently no way to define the number of columns/rows, and it's very unlikely we'll add this feature. Read on.

If your animations don't fit into a single sprite sheet, it's very likely your runtime (game engine, framework) won't be able to display them either. You Again, read on 🙂

Why are you exporting to a sprite sheet? You lose essentially all Spine features at runtime this way, and you run into problem 2 a lot, especially if you use big image attachments.

What game engine/framework are you using? We have a multitude of runtimes to support the most common engines.

im actually enrolled in a game dev class at the moment.
our game is a hex based strategy game where the facing of your units matter. i drew images for 3 facings, and then set up 3 different skeletons to represent each facing and their set of animations. unfortunately my coders ran into some problems (i think its cause i had 3 different skeletons for each facing rather than having 1 skeleton that would swap out art assets) so we decided it would be more simple to just export everything as image sequences.