Are there APIs for leveraging the editor. Like an api to do a certain action on the editor ?
Editor APIs
No, sorry. Please see here:
https://esotericsoftware.com/forum/d/23924-plugins
Thank you for the reply. I could not find any runtime for blender. Is this in the works or it is not really possible to achieve this ?
Blender isn't a platform we have targeted, sorry again. While it can be used to build assets for games, it's not a game toolkit which is what most of our runtimes target. It should be possible to use our Spine Runtimes to write a plugin that brings Spine animations into Blender, but we don't have plans to implement that in the short term. What you could do instead is to export to PNG sequences and bring those into Blender. It may be easier to use a video format that supports transparency, like MOV with the PNG codec, so your animation is contained in one file. Many people do this to bring Spine animations into After Effects for further processing, camera effects, etc. There are a number of cartoon series that do this, like this one for example.
Nate It should be possible to use our Spine Runtimes to write a plugin that brings Spine animations into Blender
Thank you for your reply @Nate which runtimes are best I can also not find any python based runtimes. Only c++ can be wrapped with python bindings. Can you confirm if this would be a possible method or which runtimes are you sure I can extend ? c# ? or c++ is just fine
Our generic runtimes are intended to be extended, they do the loading and data preparation and provide an API for manipulation, you just need to add rendering. We don't have a generic Python runtime, so using Python/C++ binding is decent plan if you want to use Python.
Nate Our generic runtimes are intended to be extended, they do the loading and data preparation and provide an API for manipulation, you just need to add rendering.
Meaning I cannot manipulate anything on Spine editor ? I think I will go with another route that will be less error prone - Unity runtime - use Unity API to manipulate the json on the unity animator. With this I get all skeleton & animation data
The spine-unity runtime wraps the spine-csharp structs and functions and exposes them as Unity components. Additionally, the spine-unity runtime imports files exported from the Spine Editor and stores them in custom Unity asset types.
josephgodwinke use Unity API to manipulate the json on the unity animator. With this I get all skeleton & animation data
While I'm not quite sure what you mean by the above sentence, please note that the spine-unity runtime (like all Spine runtimes) reads the skeleton and animation data from the skeleton .json asset, but does not provide any means to write or modify the input .json file out of the box.
Perhaps you could describe what you would like to achieve, then we could provide more helpful information on how you might do that.
Harald Perhaps you could describe what you would like to achieve, then we could provide more helpful information on how you might do that.
Since there is no plugin system here we are trying to think of ways of editing our animations with another software after the animators have done all the work with the spine editor. I was exploring blender then now am thinking of unity.
Harald spine-unity runtime (like all Spine runtimes) reads the skeleton and animation data from the skeleton .json asset, but does not provide any means to write or modify the input .json file out of the box.
Does this mean I work with c++ or c# runtimes ?
Harald but does not provide any means to write or modify the input .json file out of the box.
Did not see here that nothing can be done beyond running the animation. Thank you all.
Since there is no plugin system here we are trying to think of ways of editing our animations with another software after the animators have done all the work with the spine editor.
Why would you want to edit the animations with another software if you already have Spine?