Tint Black not working on Unity. :(

DDavi Clean · 12 июл 2017

Hi.

My game in Unity is using a Spine that works fine, untill I tried using the new "Tint Black" feature.

I followed the steps listed in the forums:
1) Change the material to Skeleton Tint Black
2) In the advanced tab, turn on Tint Black (!)

The problem seems to be that as soon as I click the Tint Black checkbox, the Skeleton Mesh Filter Component turns into a Mesh Filter component, and loses the reference to the skeleton mesh.

I took a screenshot of the error it produces in the Console.
Please help!

DDavi Clean · 12 июл 2017

Pharan · 12 июл 2017

Note the Tint Black checkbox isn't designed to be checked and unchecked at runtime.
Though I did try that just now and got no errors, but having it off while using the Tint Black shader does result in some funky colors. This is a known sideeffect.

If you weren't doing that, the log does not seem to point to anything sensible.
If anything, the error would be much earlier.
Is there anything else special about your setup you can tell us about?

DDavi Clean · 14 июл 2017

Hi Pharan,

Actually, this happens in the editor itself, not during runtime. When I click the checkbox to Tint Black, the Skeleton Mesh Filter component loses reference to the spine object, and I can't seem to link it back.

If I uncheck the Tint Black box, it finds the reference again, and goes back to the image on the left.

See attached image for the inspector before and after.

Hey Pharan, I was just going through the steps to replicate the error and found a workaround.

Apparently I can copy component on the Mesh Filter before turning on Tint Black, and then paste component values after the reference is lost.

Along with changing the material to skeleton tint black that seemed to do the trick.

One more update - the workaround doesn't work. As soon as I pressed play, the Skeleton Mesh reference was lost again.

So, any updates on what´s going on with the Tint Black in Unity? Thank you!

Pharan · 15 июл 2017

You seem to be using Unity UI.
You need to use SkeletonGraphic, and enable additional Shader Channels Texcoord1 and Texcoord2 on its parent Canvas in addition to enabling Tint Black and using a separate SkeletonGraphic Tint Black shader Material.

We don't make any assurances of MeshRenderers under Canvases since that isn't how Unity UI works anyway, just in general, without Spine.