Esoteric Software

[Earlybird]

Hi,
This may not apply to everyone but since the introduction of the export option to only include images referenced in the skeleton (Texture atlas: attachments) it enables us to spend less time having to manually clean up our image folders and preserve reference material etc. in the same location. but this in turn leads to a large amounts of images being stored in a single folder which quickly gets messy. especially as we tend to nest multiple spines in the same scene file from a single images folder.

Would it be possible in a future release to include an images clean up button that would basically use the same method that the export option above does but instead will relocate all referenced images to a new images folder location as a way of doing a quick spring clean without the risk of accidentally deleting things.

Just an idea,
Many thanks.

[Nate]

Spine tries not to take filesystem actions when possible, generally it's better to use the filesystem for that. Eg, it never modifies your image files. A feature like you propose could still be doable, as it's sort of like an export, however I wonder if you can already do it? Pack your images into a single atlas, then unpack that atlas -- tada, you have only the images used by your skeletons!

[Earlybird]

oh thats an idea. thanks Nate

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Hi Nate, not sure if im doing something wrong but I just noticed that when doing the above suggestion im getting black in my alpha gradients?

star-glow-1 = before
star-glow-2 = after

[Erikari]

Hi Earlybird! The black halo around the images is caused by enabling Premultiply Alpha in the packing settings. Simply disable the option to output the image without it.
Texture Packing - Spine User Guide: Output

[Earlybird]

that worked perfectly! thanks Erikari