I’m testing the spine extension (Defold 1.9.6, spine extension 3.6.3) and keyframed animations with physics constraints are running fine but got stuck in this part https://defold.com/extension-spine/#the-bone-hierarchy .
I’m trying to transform spine bones programmatically but it doesn’t seem to work. Getting bone gameobjects with spine.get_go() seems to function (Create GO Bones is selected on spinemodel) but none of these - msg.post(), go.set(), go.set_position(), go.animate() - seems to have any effect for the spine bones. No errors, just nothing happens.
Perhaps I’m approaching this incorrectly, but I’m struggling to find any fresh information on this matter.
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What are you trying to do?
As far as I know you can’t manipulate bones directly, but you can get heir properties and attach game objects to them, a weapon game object attached to a hand bone for example.
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Yes, it’s totally fine and might be sufficient for my needs. I was just comparing defold’s spine runtime with others and procedural animation seems to be mostly supported https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-runtime-skeletons#Procedural-animation. There are other features as well that I couldn’t get to work, like this example https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-examples-chibi-stickers but it might not be a problem, was just trying to outline the limitations of the defold runtime.
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You can still use the IK functionality if that’s setup in your scene.
See the extension-spine project for a working example (move the mouse cursor):