SwingWren I wish spine would provide some more options for playing animations instead of patching in the animator like that, for simple cases coding works great but for complex ones is a nightmare to try to do it like that and non accessible to non coding users.

Thanks for the feedback. Separate animation vs rendering components are indeed planned and will definitely solve this issue in the future. Unfortunately we were held back due to more pressing issues and couldn't yet release the complete overhaul of the main components, since we want to make sure it also fits the threading infrastructure and is thus future-proof, once we introduce this breaking structural change.