[Clickteam Fusion 2.5 issue with automatic "mothballing" offscreen]

There's an issue that creates so many other issues in its wake. I'm using conceptgame's importer, and when a spriter object goes offscreen, it stops being rendered, having bones, receiving animation instructions. For the player character, it works pretty well. For enemies, there's dozens of issues springing from this that I've spent hundreds of hours trying to work around. Enemies ignore animation changes or loop and stutter. Their lack of bones means any code requiring bone positions is seriously problematic. The spriter graphics pop up garishly once the object returns to frame because it only turns rendering back on when the center pixel enters frame.

I know brashmonkey didn't make the importer, but I'm desperate. I'm even trying to see if AI can help since I don't know C++. Conceptgame has been gone for years. The open source is here: https://github.com/ClicksEnStock/SpriterPlusPlusCF25

[Shortcut that resets bone scale to 1.0?]

If the bone isn't exactly as long as the limb, the IK doesn't work properly. If you resize the bone then the sprite is out of sync with the bone which makes "squash and stretch" a pain if you can't easily reset a sprite back to 1.0

 

I saw a shortcut that reset bones but I can't remember it and googling doesn't bring up any results. It's not in the shortcut list (but barely any of the shortcuts are listed for some reason.) It was something like holding a button and double-clicking on the bone. Can anyone help me?

[v. 1.1.0 update Spriter 2D: Game Maker Studio extension]

Porting a game from CF2.5, I noticed a lack of certain features in the GM spriter SPI (though I may be missing something.)

Can't set animation without blend time (can only set blend to 0, which still causes 1-frame-long bugs when changing animations.)

Both APIs have an issue where you can't change the animation if there's blendtime (even if it's 0) if the previous animation is finished. I got around this in CF2.5 by checking the currently playing animation against the target animation and the spriter "animation has finished" event being true, and if so, changing the animation without blendtime and setting the animation time to 0 . I don't see any way to find the currently playing animation in GM's API, nor a way to set animation time, and as said previously, can't change the animation without blending.

I also don't see a way to set an animation to a keyframe, which I used extensively in CF2.5.