So I just discovered this and have been looking into using Spine for my game. however when it comes to the player character for my game, She has a helicopter kick. How would I do this with spine. I have seen youtube videos showing off a full 3d looking rotation and I assume that uses multiple sprites. the other way I know would be through the heavy use of tweening and covering up where the character back would be displayed
Making a horizontal spin animation?
Argol228 Hi! this is easy to achieve if you follow the steps indicated here:
http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-examples-windmill#Windmill-Blades
If you're using Spine 4+, please set the rotation from 0° to +360° in local axis instead of what is indicated in the paragraph below (so this is now simpler!)
If you're encountering difficulties, please let me know!
Oh my bad, I misunderstood the first part of the question. For entire characters it gets a tad trickier, but here are some examples:
A rotating kick performed by a cat character (downloadable project attached also here: http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-twitch )
A rotating diamond:
http://esotericsoftware.com/blog/Rotating-diamond-tutorial
How to add new poses to your existing character:
http://esotericsoftware.com/blog/Rigging-new-poses-tutorial
In general, I recommend checking out the twitch section I linked above, as it goes over this sort of complex rigs several times and in depth.
I hope this helps!