Esoteric Software

[jaylach]

Hey Everyone -

I'm using Moai for my new game project. I have a need for Skeletal Animations and would really love to use Spine. Does anyone know if there is already a Spine engine for Moai (C++ or pre Lua)? My Google searches have turned up nothing but my google-foo often fails me.

I can roll my own if I have to, but would much rather start with one that's already built I only say that because if I have to do it I'll probably do it in pure lua rather than C++ (I hate C++ and will avoid it all costs, lol) which is probably where it belongs

Many thanks in advance!

[Nate]

There's spine-c, the official C runtime.
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spi ... er/spine-c
See SFML, cocos2d, and cocos2dx runtimes for example usage.

You might tweet this guy:
https://twitter.com/tangzero/status/319266180768608256

[jaylach]

There's spine-c, the official C runtime.
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spi ... er/spine-c
See SFML, cocos2d, and cocos2dx runtimes for example usage.

You might tweet this guy:
https://twitter.com/tangzero/status/319266180768608256

I've been looking through the spine-c and spine-cocos2dx sources, trying to learn how I might be able to implement it for Moai. Thanks for pointing out that tweet, I'll reach out to him!

Thanks for the super quick reply!!

[bitraven]

jaylach - did you get any response from tangzero regarding this?

[jaylach]

jaylach - did you get any response from tangzero regarding this?

No but I was pointed to his github repo on the Moai forums. His implementation is pure Lua and require Hanappe but it's a start at least.

https://github.com/tangerinagames/spine-hanappe

[TangZero]

jaylach, if you need help dont be afraid to tweet me. The pure MOAI implementation its a piece of cake.

[jaylach]

jaylach, if you need help dont be afraid to tweet me. The pure MOAI implementation its a piece of cake.

Thank you TangZero. I'll be taking you up on this as I'm looking to implement an almost pure Moai version. I'm not using hannape but instead a micro wrapper around Moai that I wrote. Your implementation is a great start for me though!

[TangZero]

jaylach,

this is an example of how to use spine-hanappe without hanappe https://gist.github.com/tangzero/5342036

You need the corona and my implementation in the same folder.
Something like this:

-project/
|-------spine/ -> the corona implementation
|-------spine-hp/ -> my implementation
|-------data/ -> assets folder
|-------json.lua -> json module fallback
|-------main.lua

[jaylach]

jaylach,

this is an example of how to use spine-hanappe without hanappe https://gist.github.com/tangzero/5342036

You need the corona and my implementation in the same folder.
Something like this:

-project/
|-------spine/ -> the corona implementation
|-------spine-hp/ -> my implementation
|-------data/ -> assets folder
|-------json.lua -> json module fallback
|-------main.lua

Oh man, you're awesome! Thanks very much for this!

With your library, and now this, you're going to save me a ton of work!

With that said, would it be possible (have you tried it?) to add a full skeleton to a prop so that I can move the prop and the skeleton moves with it?

[TangZero]

Good question...

[jaylach]

Good question...

Haven't tried it yet, but looking through the code it looks like where you create the prop for the texture (inside attachmentLoader function), I could probably just add that prop to the parent prop. I could then define that parent prop somewhere (I'd probably wrap all that in my own SkeletonEx class).

I'll give it a shot in the next couple days and let you know if that works!

Thanks again!!

[TangZero]

jaylach,

now, skeleton is a MOAIProp2D subclass.
You can animate, set attrLinks, etc, like a regular MOAIProp2D instance.

https://github.com/tangerinagames/spine ... 7346cf7da2

[TangZero]

Jaylach, Nate and community,

I recently released a pure MOAI runtime for Spine.
https://github.com/tangerinagames/spine-moai

Now, is possible to use Spine with MOAI, Hanappe, Flower, RapaNui, etc.

I would be honored to have my project in the Third Party Runtimes list.

[Søren]

I've added it to the third party list. Thanks for the contribution!