So I backed the project and now have a working copy of the Spine app running on my mac – and it is pretty good! In my opinion anyone who needs to animate any kind of character (or title screen for that matter) should buy it. Animations can be created without needing more art and are so tiny that games can make extensive use of them… “…Spine replaces traditional raster animation in games, providing smoother animations that are easier to produce.
TEXTUREPACKER SPINE SOFTWARE
(See Wikipedia for more info).Īpproximately a month ago I heard about a Kickstarter project from Esoteric Software to make Spine – an application that allows you to make 2D skeletal animation for games. Using sprite sheet is more efficient than loading lots of individual images in game development. using Inkscape), you simply drag and drop them into TexturePacker which then exports one large image file along with a data file describing where each individual image is within the larger image. Once you’ve created all your separate image files for your game (e.g. TexturePacker is a neat tool for producing ‘sprite sheets’. I hadn’t used any vector graphics editing software before so Inkscape seemed a good choice – it was free so if I didn’t get on with vector graphics editing then I hadn’t wasted any money. If you can’t draw then it doesn’t matter how much money you spend on an app, it won’t make you suddenly produce better graphics. You don’t need to be pay loads of money to produce good vector graphics, but you do need to be able to draw. Inkscape is an Open Source scalable vector graphics editor – similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw, but completely free of charge. Below is a ‘short and simple beginner level’ introduction to each of these apps and then a slightly more detailed step by step tutorial for getting an animation up and running in MonoGame.
This blog post is a guide to producing smooth animation in MonoGame using Inkscape, TexturePacker and Spine.
TEXTUREPACKER SPINE CODE
In summary, this can be achieved with just a few lines of code in MonoGame. Creating smooth animations in MonoGame using Spineįor those of you who don’t want to read the entire blog post (shame on you), here’s a slightly slowed down video of some animation in MonoGame using Spine to create the animation.
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