New feature overview video for the latest Spriter build (B2)

[Mike at BrashMonkey]

Hi everyone,

I've taken the time to make a rough video explaining the general workflow and demonstrating the majority of features in this latest build of Spriter. Of course we'll be creating actual documentation along the way to the official release of 1.0, but until then, I hope this is helpful, especially to Spriter newcomers. Sorry for all the "um's" ;)

1) Starting from Scratch : http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=30s

2) Adding Sprites(images) to the canvas: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=2m19s

3) Changing pivot point of a sprite in the canvas: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=3m1s

4) Animating boneless sprites: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=3m19s

5) Scaling a sprite and changing its opacity: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=3m32s

6) Changing images in a sprite: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=4m39s

7) Change z order of Sprites : http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=8m7s

8) Changing properties/timespan of an animation: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=8m51s

9) zoom in or out of timeline: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=9m40s

10) expland timeline to edit per object keyframes: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=9m56s

11) Zooming and panning in the canvas (frame editing window): http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=10m45s

12) Adding new or persistant sprites to a keyframe: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=11m38s

13) OnionSkin : http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=13m42s

14) moving and setting pivotpoints: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=14m20s

15) Creating a character before adding bones: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=15m32s

16) Creating bones: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=17m32s

17) Assigning sprites to bones: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=20m34s

18) Animating using bones: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=21m44s

19) Animating child sprite independantly to it's parent bone: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=22m41s

20) Change position of bone relative to parent at any time: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=23m30s

21) Scaling child sprites with their parent bone: http://youtu.be/Y5PBw4aCVNQ?t=24m19s

cheers,

Mike at BrashMonkey

[8DashP]

Nice vid, best explanation of Spriter I've seen yet.

Given I'm still in XML land and haven't used spriter really yet, the only newbie question I really had after the vid is, is there an easy way to centre the pivot automatically? There may have been a button, but I couldn't tell from the vid, otherwise it seems to have covered all the basics.

[Mike at BrashMonkey]

No fast and easy way for making perfect center pivotpoints yet, but that will come sometime before 1.0 is released.

Mike at BrashMonkey