[Questions regarding using Spriter Pro]

My apologies, the two questions in my original post were unrelated, and your initial response answered the first quite well.

As to the second, you've got the gist of it.  I'll give it another shot and try what you've suggested.

[Questions regarding using Spriter Pro]

My thanks for your response.

Just to follow up, is there any existing facility for importing external animation / scripting the movement of bones, or is hacking the spriter open file format the only option in this regard?

[Questions regarding using Spriter Pro]

My apologies if this is common knowledge, but I hoped to ask a few questions regarding the use of Spriter Pro.  It seemed better to get a definitive answer than to tilt at windmills.

Spriter seems to be geared entirely towards character animation.  So, even using the pre-written engine plugins, if I wanted to incorporate multiple spriter animations into any sort of scene, I would need to write that separately.  Would that be correct?

I've created animations in another bone based animation program.  It would be useful if I could import animations or script the movement of spriter bones.  I don't believe that's possible out of the box, correct?  It seems like one route might be to define the character, and then "hack" the file to write my own animation data in the format spriter is expecting.  I had some limited success messing with this some time ago, but I got the impression that there were some strange things with the resulting file.  Are there any guides, etc. to trying to do something like this?