Mike at BrashMonkey

Sorry for the delay. Edgar is currently tied up with work on Spriter 2 until we can release the next bit of update info for it. We'll be setting up a C3 subscription shortly for testing and development once Edgar's hands aren't so full. Hopefully it won't be too much longer.
Thanks as always for your patience and support.

Sneak peek of my upcoming Mercenary character pack.  Stay tuned for more!
 

Hi ShikaUsstan,

Thanks for the kind words. We completely understand your reservations and don't blame you if you want to hold off for a future contest which will be apply a different system for judging. That said, of course no one should ever enter a contest which requires actual effort in creating something if the non-prize benefits themselves don't make it worth your time, as even judged contest are not remotely a guarantee that the person you think should win actually will.

All entrants will be required to paste a specific message at the top of the video description in Youtube which will link directly to the full playlist and request that everyone watch all videos before judging and to judged based on artistic merit and not any personal feelings towards specific participants. Of course this is no guarantee, but we just wanted to offer as much info as possible pertinent to this topic so you can make decision more easily as to whether or not you'd like to participate.

If you do participate, your stuff will be seen by many people... and the more popular any particular participant might be, the more people will see your art.  Of course there's also the fact that if you enter, there's some chance of winning... however if you don't enter, there's no chance.

The last point I'll make is this is the biggest reason we made the theme for the contest so open, so hopefully most artists could submit animations the were already making for their personal projects etc.. so very little work would need to be done specifically for the contest..other than submitting the work.

cheers.
-Mike at BrashMonkey

PS. If you have specific suggestions for future contests, in regards to both theme and how the judging should be handled, please don't hesitate to share them so we can consider as many ideas as possible.

My best guess is your installs are failing because you already have a newer version of the VS runtimes installed. Please read the following: 
Please install the Visual Studio 2013 C++ runtime. If you are on 32 bit Windows you only need the 32 bit version (x86). If you are on 64 bit Windows, you will need to install both the 32 bit (_x86) and 64 bit versions. http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/5/6/056dcda9-d667-4e27-8001-8a0c6971d6b1/vcredist_x64.exe
The  32 bit version can be found here:http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/5/6/056dcda9-d667-4e27-8001-8a0c6971d6b1/vcredist_x86.exe
IMPORTANT: If you try to install Visual Studio 2013 and the installer says you already have a newer version, then you need to uninstall the newer version so that 2013 can successfully install. Windows update will later install the latest version, but you'll keep the DLL Files Spriter needed. 

Please let me know if that works for you.

Every time so far someone thinks this is the case, it's because they already have a newer version of visual studio installed, so the install does not let the install of 2013 actually take place. In this case, you unfortunately need to first uninstall the newer version, then install VS 2013.. later a windows update will restore you to the latest version, but the required dll files will stay intact and Spriter will work. 

You mean the cropping settings for the animations?  It is indeed possible that that was overlooked when the creating scaled project feature was created. (I can't test it atm). Worst case scenario you'll have to makes Spriter recalculate it for each animation manually.
I'll mention this to Edgar (Spriter's programmer) After testing tomorrow.
Sorry for the inconvenience

It's a good idea to report this on the github page for Spriter2Unity so any active developer can look into it and hopefully resolve this issue if possible. Thanks very much for researching/experimenting and finding a work-around.. not only is this likely helpful to others, this info might also make fixing this error much easier on the Spriter2Unity side.
cheers.

pivot points.... the dots you can move to change the spot the sprite rotates around

Sorry for seeing this thread late. My best guess is you were getting confused between default pivot point, which is what you need to be consistent for character maps to work, and just changing an images current pivot point in the timeline of an animation on any given key-frame, but this is just a guess.

We (BrashMonkey) can't make any promises, because it depends on a unanimous agreement from all contestants..but it's possible the contest will be given a new, extended window for submissions, so you might wan't to finish this in the mean-time just in case. But again, we can't promise what other people will agree too, so don't do the work if it's not rewarding enough just to get it done... even if the contest does not re-open for submissions.

cheers.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

I've found the files that tombmonkey shared and have hosted them here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ww4Gs41EpRJzbNwdXAZK-PHI5HMP2JC7/view?usp=sharing

Sorry I just spotted this post now.
With 2D bone animation software, any angle that is not perfectly overhead or side-view is much less easy to animate,,, so in your example, the leg on the left (her right leg) would be fairly easy to animate and her left leg would be much more limited.

The thinner the joints and more reliant on black outline the art style, the harder it is to animate while keeping the joints looking good in all situations. It's definitely a skill which takes time and experimentation to perfect.

The artist you speak of, tombmonkey actually shared many of the spriter files you speak of in this thread: 
But sadly all the links now seem broken.. If I can recover any of them I'll come back here and post new links. If I can't find any within a week I'll try to remember to create a new tutorial video and example file based on your example... with your permission if you give it.

Hi again everyone. Just a quick update. We've gotten the prize winner choices from 2 of the three judges and the final judge said he's going to try to look through all the submissions tonight. It shouldn't be much longer now. Thanks for your patience.
 
cheers.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

"Bosses" in games are the typically big, dangerous enemies you fight at the end of levels.

Sorry, we never really git into the habit of blogging at all. We're very much still active... mostly with customer service, the creation of additional art packs, some other cool stuff I can't currently talk about, and the (sadly still early) development of Spriter 2, which will be a free upgrade for all Spriter Pro owners.

An update build for Spriter should be arriving in the not too distant future as well.
 

Sorry for the huge delay. It was announced sometime back in 2015 that the deforming features won't be officially supported until Spriter 2 is released, which will be a free upgrade for all Spriter Pro owners. This is because the data format and foundation of Spriter code would be far too limiting for the specific deforming features we want to provide. Spriter 2 is still only in early development, so it's still going to be a long wait. For now the skin mode in Spriter can be used to some great effect, but you need to work-around a couple of known minor bugs and remember that no Spriter runtime supports playback of animations using skin-mode directly, so it's only useful if you plan on exporting full frame images or sprite sheets.

One last idea is you can use skin mode deforming in a Spriter file as part of a workflow to end up with an animation which doesn't use skin directly, but an image swapping sprite who's animation was created with the skin feature, then exported as sequential frames.

I did that for the animated flags in the Dream Frontiers Animated art pack.
 
 

Sorry, no update yet. A family emergency currently has the developer of the plug-in tied up. We'll report back as soon as there's news .
Sorry for the inconvenience. 

gonna develop a scifi theme mobile game with a programmer friend
doin my 1st try spriter pro, bought it on steam winter sale
will update accordingly
feedback is very welcome !

You mean the cropping settings for the animations?  It is indeed possible that that was overlooked when the creating scaled project feature was created. (I can't test it atm). Worst case scenario you'll have to makes Spriter recalculate it for each animation manually.
I'll mention this to Edgar (Spriter's programmer) After testing tomorrow.
Sorry for the inconvenience

Sorry. That's the only way to remove them (dragging them off the canvas.) I'll report the feature request to Edgar.
cheers.

Congrats on your first completed game. Looks fun.

Hi! I want to share with you our first game made by our small three-dude team.  The idea of the game is somewhere between runner and team-manager. Your goal is to run through hordes of enemies, smash the boss and get to the tavern.
We used Spriter to make an animation of characters and enemies. It's our first expirience of working with Spriter and first expirience to make an animation. Then Spriter animation have been transfered to Unity 3D.
The game is already completed so you can check it in the Google Play
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Feel free to criticise, our goal is to learn something and get better
 





 
 
 
Ah, just forgot! You can post your questions and reports in our groups, in social network you prefer.

Groups are quite empty, but we try to fill it with interesting stuff, and appreciate if you'll help us

I got 2  spriter art packs and I am haveing a blast with them.
Just wish you had centaur so I cold look over the key fram and bone.
Ahh well just meen I need to work at it :)
Hop you make a lot more art pakes becuse I well be buying them as you put them up.

Hi Everyone,
We're hard at work on a basic platformer game animation art pack. You can catch a sneak peak toward the end of this video:

Keep in mind, the animations you see are only key frame and are not yet tweened, so final animations will be much smoother.
Also remember, any character in an art pack will have char-maps using alternate art..which will allow for a large variety of visual styles, and other artists can create alternate image packs that can work with these art packs, so the variety of possible visual styles is limitless.. Take the giant head-size you see on the characters in this video for example...there will be alternate art that can be swapped out for normal head-sizes as well.
So, here's your chance to have influence on the types of things and animations end up in the art pack.
For now we know for sure there will be:
Player:
idle
walk
run
balance check at edge of platform
hand from edge of platform
pull up from edge of platform
hard stomp attack
block
dash
jump
fall
get hit (variation 1)
get hit (variation 2)
basic death (generic)
throw projectile
get bumped back
duck
crawl
slide
flip in the air
slide down wall (for wall jumping)
jump from wall
basic (turtle-like) enemy: (several variations)
idle
walk
get hit
die
respawn
flying variation of basic (turtle-like enemy)
fly
respawn
get hit
die
Big "humanoid-ish" boss (several variations)
idle (looking angry)
walk
jump
fall
land
breath fire (or shoot beams)
get hit (variation 1)
get hit (variation 2)
die
laugh tauntingly
ape-like display of anger (chest beating)
hopping basic enemy:
idle (going to hop)
hop
fall
get hit (variation 1)
get hit (variation 2)
die
Please suggest the ones you'd like to see, and if possible like to vids of screenshots of examples of what you're talking about in existing games.
cheers,
Mike@Brashmonkey

Hi everyone,
We're proud to announce the release of our 4th Spriter Animated Art Pack, and the last in our series of Platformer based Art Packs. Our new Run N' Gun Platformer Pack is geared towards anyone interested in creating side-scrolling action or platformer games where the player has a gun-like weapon.

This is our most content-rich Art Pack yet, featuring several variations of a fully animated player character, brandishing either a gun, an arm cannon, or a sword, as well as a large assortment of basic enemies, a couple of boss style enemies, and an assortment of pick-up items and effects to add additional visual goodness to your game.

Here are a few reduced size, reduced color, 24 fps GIF exports of some of the animations available in the Art Pack. But you can preview the full art pack here (There might be a long initial loading time (over 100MB of content), but once the first frame is finished loading, the remainder of the preview should be much faster)

Don't forget, this new Art Pack doesn't just benefit those who purchase it. All who purchase Spriter Pro also receive Essentials versions of all of our Art Packs, and this one is no different. The new Art Pack is actually so content packed, that even its Essentials version nearly doubles the amount of art content that is provided for free to Spriter Pro owners. If you have already purchased Spriter Pro, you will receive an email with a links to all of your Essentials packs including this new one.
You can preview the Essentials version of the Art Pack here.
And speaking of Spriter Pro, don't forget, its official release is November 11th, which means that in just 5 days the Early Adopter Sale ends and Spriter Pro's full price of $59 will go into effect. This is the last chance to take advantage of this greatly discounted price, so tell all your friends and fellow game makers! At this time the prices of all of our first party Art Packs will also be increased.

As always, thanks everyone very much for your support and for your patience as we continue to add more value to Spriter and reach this important milestone. We couldn't have done it without your help.
Cheers, Mike at BrashMonkey