Hello,

I've asked this before, but I can't find my old post, even though I know how to search for every post I've ever made. Sorry for the repeat question.

I have a character that has many different layers. My artist just changed all the character's facial expressions and moved the hair around, too (by changing the layer order). He may have even made other changes that I'm not aware of yet. The latest PSD he gave me looks correct. How do I get these changes into my old spine project?

I remember that I'm supposed to import the PSD script's json file into Spine, create a new skeleton, and transfer things from one skeleton to the other (new skeleton to old?). But what's the quickest way to do such a thing?

My attempt was to filter by regions and skin placeholders only. From that point, I wish I could copy all the regions from the new skeleton to the old, but that messes everything up (all the sprites are out of place after pasting). The only thing I've found that works is to copy region by region from the new to the old. Since there are 50, this is very painful.

All I want to copy over is the new transforms for the old regions and the new draw order. Does this have to take 50x multiple clicks/scrolls to achieve? If not, what's the best way to go about it?

To clarify, I think all the old layers are still there in the new PSD, but my artist has moved a few around and maybe rearranged the order of the layers, too.

Thank you both. Erikari, are you saying instead of using import data and picking json, I can import data and import a PSD file instead? If so, how does it deal with the origin issue? It doesn't seem like you can save the origin change, and that's what it uses to position the new import.

Erikari escribió

Changing the draw order using shortcuts is fairly easy though.

I imported 2 skeletons (new/old), and I wanted the old one to have the same draw order as the new. The problem is, it's very difficult to compare the draw orders of two skeletons at the same time because only one draw order fit on the screen at the same time. This means I had to look at the top skeleton, see that the top draw order is a region called A, then scroll down to the bottom skeleton's draw order and see that its region was also A. I'd have to do this over and over again, remember where I was at last, until I found one that differed. But when I found one, it was like, "Wait... maybe I made a mistake with my eyes. Does it go JKL in both? I think the bottom one had JLK. Let me check again." And then if there was a whole group of regions that were out of place, it is too much information to hold in my head at once to figure out if I can move the whole group and by how much.

So, I may be going about this wrong, but it seems to me the easy solution would be to make it possible to see both skeletons' draw orders at the same time. Here's an alternative solution: Can I open two spine projects at once? If so, I could just split the screen to left and right with new and old, then I could look at both draw orders side by side that way.

Anyway, your solution is good if I want to use my eyes until things "look" right, but if there's a known "good" and known "bad" skeleton, I'd prefer an easier way to make the bad skeleton's draw order the same as the good skeleton.

BTW, let me know if I'm trying to solve a problem I shouldn't try to solve. I just know I'm the type of guy who will easily miss that a hair strand is behind a character's ear when it should be in front, especially if my artist has given me an edit to a shirt and there's already 50 shirts in that PSD. I'd feel much more comfortable if there were some easier know this draw order is like that draw order.

Erikari escribió

You can have two Spine instances open at the same time
What's the problem with the origin? You mentioned in another thread your artist removed the guides, did you manage to get them back in the right position or not?

I think Nate answered this for me, I was confused.

I don't know what happened with that PSD, but my artist said he sent me the wrong one, and he gave me another one with the guide. If he had deleted it, I still don't know how I could have recovered from that, though.

Nate escribió

in version 3.8

Is this out yet? How do I get it? My version doesn't say it's available in the dropdown: https://imgur.com/xIbcz2r

Great, thanks!