Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi everyone.
Please use this thread to post any suggestions you might have for features.
cheers,
Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi samdz, 
 
It sounds like you might be unaware that every key-frame in sprite can have a totally different bone set-up, sprites and hierarchy... adding and removing bones at any single point in the timeline will only effect the timeline from that point where you made the change until the next key-frame.  Not knowing this can of course cause unexpected results when adding or deleting bones, and changing parent/child relationships, expecting the changes to be animation wide, when the changes will in fact not be animation-wide.
 
 
Of course limbs being assigned momentarily to different or suddenly missing parent bones across the time line will cause them to move in strange ways, first obeying and tweening to one bone, and then suddenly a different one etc.
 
It's definitely a good idea to have your character properly boned in the first place before animating to avoid hierarchy confusion once there are many key frames, movements etc... its fine to add bones for new sprites, or change hierarchies mid animation, so long as you understand those changes are only in effect until the next key frame is reached...so if you want those new bones and the new hierarchy structure to continue for the remainder of the animation you must copy and paste the new bones to each successive key-frame.
 
Does this shed any lite on the issue?
 
Thanks,
Mike at BrashMonkey
 

To fade from one image to the other would most easily be achieved as follows.... apply both images to the same bone, in the same exact position relative to the bone. (one above the other in z-order)...then animate to opacities of each image over the course of the animation as needed.
 
I'm not sure what you mean about cross-fading in animation parts...do you mean entire animations, or images again?  Outside of Spriter, in game engines, animations can be blended from one to another, but this doesn't cross-fade images, it basically tweens between one animation and the next as far as bone and sprites positions, angles sizes etc.
 
Yes, you can create sequential image animations out of any program that can export PNG images, then automatically import them into Spriter as animated objects in your animation.
 

 
cheers,
Mike at BrashMokey

Hey Mike,
 
Thank you for replying. 
 
That's great to know it will be added. I manage to do another work around that was actually very simple. I made one character map that hid everything needing to be hidden. My game is slowly becoming more complex so, i'm not sure if this will still work but I i'm confident it will. If, by any chance it doesn't work, i'll for sure try your suggestion.
 
 
Back to work for me..

Hi Shadowdawnz,
 
Its a great question and I'm surprised no one else seems to have asked until now.  Yes, its definitely something Edgar will add eventually...but can't promise how soon because of our current overdue commitment to start focusing on helping to Get Spriter supported for as many authoring systems as possible.  He's currently working on a full, commented C++ implementation.  Until that is done his time is very limited.
 
So, if you need to use the char-map features with complex character map layering ASAP I guess the best bed is to write a little sub-routine in C2 that keeps track of all current character maps, then can remove one from the list, then clear all character maps, and then reinstate all the remaining character maps on the list.. I hope this makes sense.
 
cheers
Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi Everyone,
 
As you might have noticed, we've upgraded to a totally new forums system.  The migration seems to have gone off without a hitch, but there's the possibility that if you posted during the 30 minute window in which we were migrating that your post ended up in the old forums and didn't make it over here. 
 
For anyone with a missing post, for a limited time you can actually access the old forum by going here: http://www.brashmonkey.com/forumOLD and copy the text from your post so you can easily repost it into the new forum.  If this is required I apologize for the inconvenience.
 
 
cheers,
Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi Everyone,
 
As you might have noticed, we've upgraded to a totally new forums system.  The migration seems to have gone off without a hitch, but there's the possibility that if you posted during the 30 minute window in which we were migrating that your post ended up in the old forums and didn't make it over here. 
 
For anyone with a missing post, for a limited time you can actually access the old forum by going here: http://www.brashmonkey.com/forumOLD and copy the text from your post so you can easily repost it into the new forum.  If this is required I apologize for the inconvenience.
 
 
cheers,
Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi William,
 
We'll definitely be working out a way to get all current Spriter Pro owners who want one a SteamKey.  Keep an eye out for a forum post about it within the next several days.
 
Thanks very much for the kind words about Spriter.
 
cheers,
Mike at BrashMonkey

Hi William,
 
We'll definitely be working out a way to get all current Spriter Pro owners who want one a SteamKey.  Keep an eye out for a forum post about it within the next several days.
 
Thanks very much for the kind words about Spriter.
 
cheers,
Mike at BrashMonkey