MasterZenith

I like Spriter, but I'm looking for a program that has great mesh deformation aspects.

Anyone have a list of cheap to expensive sprite manipulation programs that allow me to deform?

I saw a few, like Spine, but are there any others not 300 bucks? Or is Spriter the best I'll get for it's price?

Spriter no longer opens up a few files I have. Spriter opens up other files just fine, but the files I am trying to get to work on, Spriter executes, but immediately after the Spriter window opens up, Spriter does nothing, my CPU is racing  and the only thing I can do is clock the window to turn it white, then crash Spriter.

Don't tell me Spriter corrupted my files, losing them forever.....

I am tired of Spriter constantly crashing, making me lose hours of work, and now Spriter won't even open up some of my project files. 
 
Anything I can do to solve this issue?

Spriter no longer opens up a few files I have. Spriter opens up other files just fine, but the files I am trying to get to work on, Spriter executes, but immediately after the Spriter window opens up, Spriter does nothing, my CPU is racing  and the only thing I can do is clock the window to turn it white, then crash Spriter.

Don't tell me Spriter corrupted my files, losing them forever.....

I am tired of Spriter constantly crashing, making me lose hours of work, and now Spriter won't even open up some of my project files. 
 
Anything I can do to solve this issue?

Key frames for two of my animations just vanished, so I turned spriter off and returned to it later. When I returned, I moved a key frame that was still present in both animations, and then the other key frames popped back into existence. Don't know where those key frames were, and how they came back.

I have to calm myself down before posting because I post these bug issues right after a bug happens.

This is the third time this massive program breaking issue has occurred. In the previous thread where this happened I was asked if I could record it. Um, how can I record something that I don't know if its going to happen? Not to sound rude, but I'm not going to record everything I do for weeks to catch a bug.

If I knew how to reproduce the bug, then yes, i would record it, but I have no clue what is going on to reproduce the bug intentionally.

1) All the key frames just vanish and there is only a single key frame. I have found out that to make the hidden key frames appear, you have to physically move the one key frame that is visible.
 
2) All the animations are screwed up. Half the doll's bones are locked in place and don't move while others move just fine. Essentially, the animation is ruined. undoing history does nothing to fix this as screwed up aspects of the bug time travel and effect everything done so far.

3) Autosave then fucks me over by autosaving what is currently going on. Now, I have autosave turned on for every minute to avoid issues like this, but ironically, because of auto save I lose everything I have ever done for this particular animation.
 
4) Then, Spriter locks up, turns white, and crashes.

So hours of work gone. The only way to really combat this is the manually save every few minutes, but that is terrible. I don't have to manually autosave to make sure autosave itself doesn't screw me over.

I don't know how to reproduce this bug, but it is a bug large enough where I am almost afraid of using spriter anymore. I'm looking for more stable sprite animators out there at the moment because I use animators to make commercial games, and I don't have time to putz around with issues like this.
 
If I could record it to show it to whoever this matters to, I would, but I can't, sorry!

Auto save is not auto saving. I'm tired of losing hours of work because I assume autosave is auto saving, and it's not. And I don't know how its happening, but somehow one project is being saved under another project's name. No idea whats going on here.

Key frames for two of my animations just vanished, so I turned spriter off and returned to it later. When I returned, I moved a key frame that was still present in both animations, and then the other key frames popped back into existence. Don't know where those key frames were, and how they came back.

Out of nowhere, whenever I try to Inherit any property after right clicking a bone, my computer locks up, and I need to pull up Task Manager to unlock my computer.
 
This has happened on and off before, but today, it happens every time.