Thanks Mitch for your great work. :-) This is going to be fun creative life with spine and your runtime :-)

I have never used mecanim, is it any idea to switch? Any advanteges? (I see @Pharan doesn't seem to think so )

@davidsvson.
There are a lot advantages. Mostly ease of setup, without having to code animation controllers yourself, especially for fun things like blend trees.
I like to roll my own though 'cause sometimes it's hard to get Mecanim to do what you want. Mecanim was really made with 3D animation in mind, whereas I personally like to handle my Spine animations like PlayStation-era 2D sprites.

If Mecanim is what you're used to, it's definitely a good thing to have.
If you've never used Mecanim before, expect to spend some time watching videos and searching how-tos to learn how to use it, as with any part of Unity.

Mitch, you're the man, and you know it.

@davidsvson I concur with Pharan. For instance, I'm currently working on a 2D point and click adventure using Spine. Mecanim is not as suited for this since in our case things as speed or velocity to determine animation states are not fundamental.
Mitch showed it tome using one of his platformer examples though, and you'll find it's perfect for those cases.

Thanks @Mitch @Pharan and @wrongtarget!

I'll not convert to mecanim in my current project but will try it out for the next one.

Great news! I'm seeing a lot of glitches though with Unity 5.

For testing purposes, I moved a character to a Mecanim state machine (previously setting/mixing clips in code).

• I have a non-interruptible transition to a state (player turns from right to left), which then transitions (non-interruptible) to "idle" at normalized Exit Time 1.0 (no other conditions). This animation is not played entirely, it often ends up with frames half-way in the turning movement, as if leaving too early

• Flipping the skeleton is erratic as well. I can use either
  transform.rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(facing < 0 ? 180 : 0, Vector3.up);
  or
  GetComponent<SkeletonAnimator>().skeleton.FlipX = facing < 0;
  to flip the skeleton for all left-facing states. It was working before moving to Mecanim, but now it's erratic. Almost seems as if the state machine is messing with the FlipX state of the skeleton (or is it the root bone transform / both?)

Thanks
Rouven

You have no idea how much this helped our workflow when trying to figure out how to sync animations in Bolt networking. Bolt has mecanim support which automagically sync's everything so adding this basically made our day x 500.

Lifesaver.

I'm pretty new to Spine, and I'm having trouble figuring things out. I've tried the Generate Mecanim Controller thing, but I'm not sure how to use it.
So far I was using the "bake all skins" button, which worked fine, I then created a new animator that used the animations from the ones from the bake. It was fine, except that I had to bake stuff again everytime I changed something.
I've tried "Generating Mecanim Controller", and assigning that generated controller to my baked prefab, but it doesn't seem to work. What am I missing ?

Sure, just PM me your email address!

This looks amazing! Will these features be included in the tk2d runtime aswell?

It worked, thanks

Would love to see this in the official runtime tho, no pressure

Hey! First post here :-)

Thanks Mitch for creating the SkeletonAnimator. I just started using Spine (it's been in my todo list forever) with Unity 5. Against all advice, I'm using mecanim since I'm familiar with the kind of state machines you can create with that (and I can't be arsed to create my own State Machine solution from scratch right now). Your SkeletonAnimator is working like a charm! I can "navigate" the state machine and see the animation change to what I created on Spine. Yay!

My next step is to use events. You said they have the same limitation as when you baked the animation using the previous system (SkeletonAnimation?). That makes me happy, because it seems to imply that I can use Spine events with mecanim in Unity 5. The problem is that I don't see where to hook my delegate to listen for events. I've been searching the C# and Unity runtimes but it only seems to exist hooks in AnimationState (old system). The docs also point to AnimationState. Can we listen to Spine events when using mecanim?

soy_yuma wrote

You said they have the same limitation as when you baked the animation using the previous system (SkeletonAnimation?).

He means it's using Unity's Animation events, not Spine-C#'s events.
SkeletonAnimator (and Mecanim) don't touch Spine.AnimationState (where the Spine event delegates live).
SkeletonAnimator also doesn't interface with Spine.EventTimeline.

I'm actually not sure where the events are defined for SkeletonAnimator. I guess in the "dummy" animation clips?

Yeah, they're in the clips (you can inspect them with the Animation window) - and since they're Unity events, they're actually SendMessage-style and calling the function with the same name as the event: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/animedit ... vents.html