isolate selection in Animate mode

cyb3r

Hi. I wish there was an easy and fast way (like one button/hotkey) to isolate selected images and their bones in animation mode. Sometimes it is hard to animate if there are many layers obscuring each other and it`s a real pain to check/uncheck their visibility in the tree. Function simmilar to "solo layer" in AfterEffects or "isolate slection" in 3ds max would be very helpfull if one needs to focus on a specific part of an animated scene. :think:
Best regards.

cyb3r

Erika

Hello! If you uncheck bones visibility or layer visibility, you can focus on only the selected elements.
Tools - Spine User Guide: Options

Furthermore, right-clicking a bone's visibility will hide it and all of its children, as well as hide slots (which only affects the editor, not runtime).
This greatly speeds up hiding chunks of elements obscuring your view and makes restoring them also quite easy, just right-click the parent bone again.

You can also store selections of several bones or other elements obscuring your view, and recall them to quickly activate/deactivate them by pressing CTRL plus a number from 0 to 9, then recalling the selection by pressing the corresponding number.

cyb3r

Hello. It`s been a while since i posted about it. Are there any plans on improving workflow in this matter? I vote with all my fingers for quick isolation feature 🙂

Erika

Hello, I suggest you to try the workflow above, here's a gif demonstrating how to use it:
Loading Image
Spine Tips: hide tree

JSpin

I too would appreciate a Isolate Selected mode. This is common in 3D software and a life saver when things start to get complex and have more that one time whished for it in Spine when working, Other solutions shown aren't as efficient.

cyb3r

Hi Erika. What You showed is fine for super simple projects with a very few elements and hierarchy branches. Like JSpin said, in complex setups it is not efficient at all.
Thanks anyway for suggestion 🙂
Here is an example how it works in 3DS max https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAJ7OWQyEs. That simple! 😃
Regards.

Erika

Thanks for providing feedback and examples. We'll be focused on quality of life improvements in v4.1, so your feedback is going to be taken into consideration. 😃

JSpin

Hi, this is something that's INCREDIBLY useful, I use it quite often in 3D programs. I've been whishing for the functionality for the last couple of days when working with multiple overlapping bones and attachments. It's a real time and mental drain to manually hide everything else in the scene.