Software for 2dweg animation
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Which one you prefer is largely your workflow; I think Live2D may be slightly better adapted for still characters, while Spine's got a stronger realtime toolset (for things like IK, etc).
Live2D
Spine
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it's got a lot of good engine integrations, and the tools are good. A lot of people are using
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Which one you prefer is largely your workflow; I think Live2D may be slightly better adapted for still characters, while Spine's got a stronger realtime toolset (for things like IK, etc).
Live2D
Spine
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I've been wondering about having a play with one of these tools, but was hoping could do something more modular, aka build some generic assets as a simple foundation for other adult games, ideally so with a bit of alteration you could change one characters hair, eyes... and the animations still largely work.
You reckon something like this would be possible/functional within spine2d?
Spine2D's more or less built for that. There's two core systems you need to look at; slots and skins. Slots are place-holders for sprites; you could have multiple slots, which are toggled on/off (or adjusted for alpha) either by animation or code.
Sarah here is one of the antagonists in Love of Magic; she's composed of 4 slots. The first one is the base layer head (separated across two bones), and 4 partial sprites (two used for the eyes, one for the mouth). The alpha of the blink/eye/mouth are then controlled by animations.
You can also group sprites into a 'skin'. Sarah has 10 different emotional states; each one assigns a different set of sprites to the 4 slots. So by changing the skin she changes from angry to happy using the same animations .
Finally, all that can also be controlled from script. So if you had 10 eye slots, and you wanted just the Blue eyes to be visible, you could use code to hide every slot with "eye_" in it that's not "eye_blue".
Hope that makes sense, if not feel free to ask questions.
Sarah here is one of the antagonists in Love of Magic; she's composed of 4 slots. The first one is the base layer head (separated across two bones), and 4 partial sprites (two used for the eyes, one for the mouth). The alpha of the blink/eye/mouth are then controlled by animations.
You can also group sprites into a 'skin'. Sarah has 10 different emotional states; each one assigns a different set of sprites to the 4 slots. So by changing the skin she changes from angry to happy using the same animations .
Finally, all that can also be controlled from script. So if you had 10 eye slots, and you wanted just the Blue eyes to be visible, you could use code to hide every slot with "eye_" in it that's not "eye_blue".
Hope that makes sense, if not feel free to ask questions.
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I'd say pro is pretty much necessary. There's a lot of small stuff, but the big thing is mesh support, which allows soft body rigging like this:
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