The Spine 4.3 beta has begun!

Nate · 9 мая

4.3.19-beta is now available! See the changelog for details. This is a big update with a lot of great fixes and improvements. There are a few more features we are working on for 4.3, such as more integrated PSD support, then we will switch to stability so we can release 4.3 as non-beta.

In the meantime runtime porting is underway! spine-unity is likely to be completed first, with spine-ts and others coming soon after.

We've also just released spine-webcomponents, which makes using Spine in web pages a lot more powerful. It's available for 4.2 if you want to take an early look:
EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimestree/4.2/spine-ts/spine-webcomponents
You can see an extensive demo page here:
https://esotericsoftware.com/files/spine-widget/tutorial.html

Dragelans · 13 мая

Nate

Hey Nate. These new updates really good and really improves on our rigs and animations so far. Have a rough idea when we can expect the full release?
We plan to switch our current pipeline to full 4.3 but between betas we time to time encounter slight bugs and don't want to encounter with possible compatibility issues. We created a test in one of the newer betas last week but there were an UI bug so we tried to downgrade but didn't go too smooth.

Nate · 13 мая

Can't say for sure. Sometimes surprises happen. We're doing some bug fixes now, so stability will improve, but there will still be a few new features and that can break things. I don't suggest using the beta for production unless your release is quite far out.

Dragelans · 13 мая

Nate Yes we still have a bit time a head of us, that's why I'm asking
I know It would be hard to give a specific time but like from past experiences and versions asking a guess ^^'

Nate · 13 мая

I would be happy to have 4.3 non-beta in 1.5 months. 3 months might be more realistic. Sorry we can't promise it!

Dragelans · 13 мая

Nate Yes, that seems a reasonable timeline. Thanks
One last question
Spine files made in beta will work on full version automatically?

Nate · 13 мая

Yes, we try very hard so that beta project files can be opened by later versions. In over a decade we've never failed at that, though it's technically possible.

JJayW · 19 мая

Oh wow the sliders will be insanely useful. I have been wanting to be able to export 'layered' animations to video for a long time now and this essentially enables that. I also see that you already had the "graphically showing clamp limits" solution too! Gonna have to jump back into spine and try figure out sliders.

Nate · 24 мая

In 4.3.30-beta we've added PSDs to the Images node. This lets you easily recreate your PNGs and attachments from one or more PSDs. It's a better workflow that using the Import PSD dialog, since it remembers each PSD and the settings per PSD file.

4.3 should now be feature complete! That means we'll focus on bugs, stability, and the runtimes until it's ready to be released as non-beta.

Thanks to everyone who is testing the beta and reporting any issues you encounter!

Dragelans · 24 мая

Nate Let' goooooooo!!!!

Wwane1954 · 26 мая

Sliders are a really cool feature!
But this might be my greed,
It would be nice if we could mix several sliders properly.

Currently, the idea is that only left and right rotations can be used, and it seems difficult to express the up and down rotations together.

Nate · 26 мая

@wane1954 Sliders set a pose, overwriting (or blending with using mix) the previous pose value, the same as applying an animation does. If you want to combine multiple sliders that key the same values, check Additive.

Please note that the recommendation to avoid deform keys still applies. In rare cases they are needed but most of the time it is better to use bone weights to manipulate a mesh. You can still key the bones in a slider animation.

lucky · 24 дня назад

Nate
hey there , quick question
We're currently thinking of porting from unity 2022, to latest 6
Would you recomend 4.3 beta or 4.2? Asking since 4.2 has version range as Unity 2017.1-6000.0
and we're looking at latest stable so 6000.1.5f1 for now , wondering if the range would also include anything in the 6000 range unoficially or is 6000.0 a hard stop? Or if we use the LTS if the 4.2 is safe

Harald · 23 дня назад

@lucky I don't recommend using spine-unity 4.3-beta yet, as porting is not done yet. You might want to wait a bit until it is completed at least, or continue using 4.2.

While the spine-unity 4.2 runtime is guaranteed to be compatible with Unity 6000.0, if we find any issues on 6000.1 we will very likely back-port any bugfixes to 4.2 as well, especially until 4.3 is still in beta. If you encounter any issues on 6000.1, please do not hesitate to let us know.

lucky · 22 дня назад

Harald
Ah that makes sense, we'll transfer everything to latest 4.2 from 4.1 then. Thanks so much for your detailed response, I've shared it with the team as well

Wwane1954 · 18 дней назад

Hello, thank you for updating the tool interestingly!
By the way, is it decided when is the official release date for version 4.3?
Or is there a major feature that will be added?

Nate · 18 дней назад

We don't plan to add more features to 4.3. We're focused on runtimes, then testing, then we can release as non-beta. I can't say when that will be done, but it shouldn't be too long!

Dragelans · 10 дней назад

Nate Any rough idea for the runtimes?
Current version not working good with contraints and ik together as I tested

Nate · 10 дней назад

We're actively working on 4.3 runtimes. spine-libgdx is done, others have most of the work done, testing remains.

If you have encountered issues with constraints in 4.3, please let us know. Don't wait for it to be released as non-beta!