{"id":346,"date":"2013-11-17T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/sew\/?p=346"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:04:43","slug":"new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/sew\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"New Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comment was made that my old animations looked better than my new animations. After a little searching of my soul, I found this to be an accurate assessment of my current work. I needed to compare and figure out why<\/em> this was. I decided to do a 1:1 import from the old Flash files into Spine to help me figure out where I was going wrong.<\/p>\n

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The 1:1 has a few errors in terms of how it translated into Spine because I wasn’t using bones proper in Flash. I would just remove images or make them invisible when they weren’t ‘in use’, but with real bones, they always need to exist so you’re getting a weird translation from frame X to frame Y. It’s even more pronounced here because the hand is actually being mirrored, and it’s doing it gradually frame-to-frame. So instead of being normal one frame and backwards the next, it’s normal, and then halfway in-between, and then flipped, and halfway again. These are easily fixable issues though, and I’ve already corrected them.<\/p>\n

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Th big differences are that I was not afraid to squash, stretch and skew when I was using Flash. For some reason though, since I’ve moved to Spine I haven’t done any scaling of the images at all, and I don’t know why. It’s why the old animation<\/a> looks so stiff. Because.. it is!<\/p>\n

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So now I’m in the process of importing all the files for the north animation into Spine and cleaning it up. This one is a little harder because I didn’t have these images on hand already like I did for the south animation (I had used it as reference when building the new set). So I’m still ripping and mapping the bones. From there it’s just a matter of painting it and calling it good. It’s ridiculous to think I wasted so much time rebuilding the animations for.. absolutely no reason. I want to say “at least I learned a lot!” but I’m not entirely sure I did this time. Old dogs.<\/p>\n

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Actually, for the amount of time I’ve put into this project, it’s crazy how much of it feels wasted and how little I have to show for it. I’m uh, sorry, about that. I guess time doesn’t equal results, always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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