[DEPRECATED] Anima2D - Advanced 2D Skeletal Animation Plugin

Hi.

After upgrading to version 2017.2, it became impossible to edit the scene since the editor is very slow. I have only 2 anima2d characters on the scene and if they are off, then the freezes disappears. You can test this by opening any example from Anim2d and copying several times the character. Will this bug fix in the near future or until you roll back to 2017.1?

 

Is Anima2D dead?

Broken Anima2D features in every latest Unity version, no forum posts from Sergi in over a month, no update to the Asset Store plugin since April, and the latest comment there says it's not being developed anymore: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/79840

Also no news on Unity's own 2D skeletal animation system which has been in development for quite some time: https://forum.unity.com/threads/bringing-anima2d-to-unity.444437/

What's going on?

 

pls try reading THIS theme of forum.

 

I'm having trouble importing this package in (both the beta that you just released and the one from the store). I'm getting a series of errors, the first one reads:

Code (CSharp):

1. Assets/Anima2D/Scripts/Editor/Triangle/Tools/Voronoi.cs(111,33): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type `TriangleNet.Geometry.Point' to `Point'

I fixed this by specifying the Geometry namespace for each reference to Point.

 

In 2017.2.0f3 version, I can't rename Game Objects in Hierarchy after installing Anima2D -- even with the beta release.

 

Has anyone made a solution to outlining/highlighting characters or something for Anima2D objects that use sprite meshes and not sprites. I found this blog which helped me towards outlining one instance of a spriteMesh by just changing the code a little bit, but this will only outline one instance, like a head for example. But I want to be able to outline the entire outer section of the sprite meshes as though they are one. like this

Before I go tackle this problem I was just wondering if anyway else has done it and don't mind sharing their process or if anyone already has a good idea on how to do it and point me in the right direction. If not all good, when I figure this out I will post on here how its done. {watch this space}

 

Normal map lighting breaks after binding

I'm using just standard shader with normal map, which works fine with SpriteMeshInstance/MeshRenderer, but when I try to bind a bone to my SpriteMesh and MeshRenderer becomes SkinnedMeshRenderer it makes something wierd with light - not just rotates shadows in 180 degrees, but twists it unpredictebly. Playing with shader options gave me nothing, as well as googling common troubles with skinned meshes. Am I doing something wrong or it is a bug?

 

Here is it, Unity version 2017.2.0b9 64-bit, Anima2d - your last update from this tread. (Same thing in Unity 2017.1 with Asset Store Anima2D). Thank you for looking in!
Everything is set up, to reproduce just head in SpriteMesh Editor and bind the bone. Light fill flip.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzMgitnl3ixSdXVCYVhnaVJXRVU

 

I found the problem: Incompatibility with two scripts in a UI object, "Horizontal Layout Group" and "Content Size Filter" (this one with horizontal and vertical fit properties set to "Preffered Size"). If I change this properties, or disable one script, I'll able to rename objects in Hierarchy again.

Here is a small project to demonstrate this issue: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aotiz_qfJKDlhCIbqcUGanDOtHZ_

Thanks in advance.

 

It works! Thank you so much!

 

Hi Sergi,
thank you for this awesome tool!

I have couple of questions about Anima2D:

Are the IK handles expensive for cpu during runtime? Should I bake the animation always after I have the IK animations ready and delete the IKs if I want to optimize the game build?

Are the meshes that I can create with Anima2D more expensive for cpu than normal meshes or sprites, because they have the bone/skin script attached to it?
I would like to use these meshes as environment art with a material that uses vertex lighting. This because with vertex lighting the Unity's automated meshes that it creates for sprites is just not what I want when using vertex lighting in their material.
Ofcourse if you know some other tool that enables manual mesh creation for sprites inside Unity please let me know!

I have noticed that when I move the skinned bones around with Move tool and then undo that movement, unity freezes for one minute to make that undo. Many times Unity has even frozen completely when doing this.
I currently have Unity 2017.1.2f1

Just a thought: in Spine2D there was this awesome Offset tool, which helps animators to offset the keyframes while keeping the time area of the animation the same. Any idea if Unity will have anything similar in development?

Thank you so much for your time!

 

Hey guys! There's a new issue for Unity 2017.2 with the skinned mesh combiner. I'm not sure if you support that script or not (sorry if not) but I'm wondering if anyone has any work arounds? There seems to be an issue with Unity itself and it isn't fixed despite what the issue tracker says.:https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...ty-sharedmesh-is-null-when-created-via-script. Basically this breaks the skinned mesh combiner script completely and renders it useless, which is a huge bummer. Not sure if they intend to fix it. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

 

Awesome! Wasn't sure if you'd be able to! Thanks so much

 

Hello,

We are a team of ten and we are still experiencing Anima2D Sprite Atlas corruptions like ones reported in #252 and #372 frequently. It usually happens when someone committed a new SpriteMesh asset, then the Anima2D Sprite atlas will be messed up on all the other people's machines. The packages built by our build machine will also be affected. So doing any update to our Anima2D assets would be really painful for us.

I looked a bit into the code and learned that:

• The authored sprite geometry data is stored on SpriteMesh asset.
• A sprite mesh to texture lookup table(s_SpriteMeshToTextureCache) is built when SpriteMeshPostprocessor is initialized on load (Register to EditorApplication.delayCall on load, actual initialization happens later)
• When a texture is reimported, SpriteMeshPostprocessor will check the lookup table, if the lookup table contains the texture, the postprocessor will load the corresponding SpriteMesh to get geometry data and set to Sprite via Sprite.OverrideGeometry.
• Anima2D forced texture reimport by writing time stamp to userdata field in the .meta of the texture.

Our build machine is running Unity with -batchmode argument, and it seems EditorApplication.delayCall will not trigger in batch mode. So it is impossible to update geometry data on build machine without opening the Unity Editor on build machine manually. And is static ctor of SpriteMeshPostprocessor always be called before any Texture import happens? I guess the geometry update might go wrong if the SpriteMesh referenced texture being reimported before lookup table is built. But there is no official document about the order between static ctor with [InitializeOnLoad] and asset reimport, so it is just a hypothesis. Could you help me confirm if it is the case?

 

Hello, first of all thanks for this awesome tool!

I'm having issues regarding the onion skin. Basically, i can't figure out how to make it work.
I've already tried to put my character prefab in your example scene of the robot but it doesn't work. I mean, your model works perfectly but mine (that has apparently the same setup) can't display the onion skin.

Am i missing something? Could you give me any clue?

Thanks in advance

 

Hi, guys!

I'm developing a Avatar Customization System using Anima2D and Unity 2017. Regarding the swap sprite process (changing cloths, accessories, etc), most tutorials indicate that I should use the Animate Mesh Component and create a .Anim file to organize the assets. Honestly I do not consider this approach dynamic and flexible enough. There is another options? Could I change the Sprite of SpriteMesh, like I do in Inspector?

 

Hello, thanks for the reply.
I'm attaching as you requested a link to download a small project with the same error. Unfortunately, i had to replace all the sprites due to a NDA but i don't think this could be a problem since i'm having the exact same issue.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=19mTuM9jiupQ90RuB09AAEVV17pJVF0g7

In the root folder of the project i've saved a scene called "OnionSkinIssue" and basically is the robot scene with the prefab we are using in our game.

I hope this could be useful

Thanks again!

 

Hi!
Just started to play around with Anima2D, but didn't get far... When I enter the SpriteMesh Edit window, Bind the bones, and then hit Apply, the sprite disappears in the Editor and Game view. If I go back and Unbind the bones the sprite is back. What's going on?

 

Adjusted the weights manually, it's working now. Thanks!

 

Where did you edit that code, I don't know what to edit after this

You can pass this parametr from SpringManager:

springBones .UpdateSpring (m_scaleX);

And you can get that scale from Transform you need:

public Transform m_followThisTransformScaleX;

if(m_followThisTransformScaleX != null)
{
m_scaleX = Mathf.Sign(m_followThisTransformScaleX.transform.localScale.x);
}

it gives me an error if I put it in springmanager.cs

 

Hi, I've been having the exact same issue. I tried to find what you did but couldn't find exactly how you fixed that. Mind giving me some details on how you fixed it in steps? Thanks

 

This plugin is near-perfect but there is a very fundamental problem with the bone's axis going to the right.

I'm using Anima2D to build a 2D game,
Axis issues extend two issues in my project.

1: I can not add SpriteRenderer to Bone GameObject.
Because bone has been rotated 90 degrees, SpriteRender's FilpX / FilpY is not enough to correct the direction.
I can only create a child GameObject for each bone, add a SpriteRenderer, and left it 90 degrees.

2: When I animate or adjust the child bone, the position x / y is reversed because the parent bone has been rotated 90 degrees.

I understand Unity needs to ensure backward compatibility, but Anima2D axis inconsistent with Unity to use it is very strange.
Anyway, I hope Unity to accept my changes, I changed the bones direction to a global variable, user can easy to change the setting.

Here is the change of 6 lines of code:
https://github.com/johnsoncodehk/unity-anima2d/commit/12601927ea87b5fec8132f4f194455bea2408b96
https://github.com/johnsoncodehk/unity-anima2d/commit/1fae5f0b838bed2f5c149d36726eed94b9940b0d

 

Could you explain in more detail where to make the changes, I am a little lost. thanks

 

You should rotate your object by 180 degrees on the Y axis instead of negative scale. The result is the same, and no need to edit the spring code. (disable the face culling if needed)

 

Thanks, it works like a charm

 

Just wondering - how come any prefab of a spritemesh just has textures all messed up? Is it possible to fix this or extend the editor preview GUI class to fix it?
I've noticed the textures will either be all pink or all white. It takes the shape of the mesh itself but it looks just like a blob.

To replicate this just create a sprite mesh from any sprite > add the mesh object to the scene > drag that object back into an asset folder.

 

Are we really supposed to use this? Where is the documentation?? anima2d.com redirects to the asset store and there are zero matches in the unity documentation for Anima2D.

 

Hi there, we have a problem with baking animations with IK handles. In many cases, the resulting bone rotation will go from lets say 40degree to 400degree, it looks fine as long as were using the ikhandles but once baked, the result is the bone doing a complete 360 rotation to reach its final position, resulting in nasty looking baked animations. Anyway to fix that? To have a mod360 applied to resulting rotations or something?

 

I get an error from the spring manager that occurs every frame. Any help?

Code (CSharp):

1. IndexOutOfRangeException: Array index is out of range.
2. UnityChan.SpringManager.UpdateParameter (System.String fieldName, Single baseValue, UnityEngine.AnimationCurve curve) (at Assets/Anima2D/Examples/Scripts/SpringManager.cs:73)
3. UnityChan.SpringManager.UpdateParameters () (at Assets/Anima2D/Examples/Scripts/SpringManager.cs:66)
4. UnityChan.SpringManager.Update () (at Assets/Anima2D/Examples/Scripts/SpringManager.cs:45)

 

I am working on a project on a team and we are running into this error on one of our computers. I am curious as to what might cause a problem with showBonesImage.

 

We are using the most up to date versions of unity and anima 2d as well as playmaker.

 

Hi, Does anyone know what how to solve the issue from this error

The error is pointing to SpriteMeshPostprocessor.cs Line:86. But no info about which sprite mesh has the issue.

I didn't put the model together, my artist did, but I'm trying to figure out why these errors are happening and how to fix them. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

Hi, how about ffd? its very good feature, it is very well work in "spine"

 

Hi everyone!

I have a problem with my pipeline with Unity v 2017.3.0f3 and Anima2D. And I don´t know how to reproduce the bug to avoid it. It is about Sprite Atlas of Unity.

First of all, I use Ps2D, to generate sprites and the correct hierarchy.

Then, I follow the Anima2D process or method described in the official videos. I create all the Sprite Meshes I need to make a prefab that is going to be called by the code of a coder coleage. After that, I use Slice to edit vertices in Sprite Mesh Editor. Then, I create bones, IKs and I add bones to Sprite Mesh Instance properties in the inspector. In the next step, I make the weighting of the bones.

I use Anima and Unity to perform the animations.

Finally, I create a Sprite Atlas with all the sprites I need. When I press the play button, every Mesh Instance shrink. Their position change to another place and, also, they show parts of near sprites in the atlas.

I don´t know exactly why this is happening and don´t know either how to reproduce it.
I think this is a problem with the Sprite Atlas because without it the animations goes perfectly.

I have tried to create the Sprite Atlas of Unity before the steps of Anima2D but this did not work either.

Maybe the problem is the same that in this Unity issue: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...69.1055769105.1517929094-807074881.1506424508


I think that another option is make an Atlas with TexturePacker or something like that. Maybe ShoeBox but I don´t know if the compression of the PNGs is the best for Unity, and even for the Pipeline, and the renaming of the sprites of the atlas in Unity.

I found this:
http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/

And I think that is a good option too, but maybe too old.


If somebody knows how to help, I will be really grateful.

 

I just looked into the forum and can't seem to find the info.

is it possible to import into anima2D a spine animation.

I'd gladly turn to anima2D in unity if I could still use all my animations from spine.

I know as a programmer, that a lot of artist will still use spine, but I'd like to use anima all around once in unity

thanks

 

Hi everyone!
I have a problem with Anima2d.
Bones some times makes 360 degrees rotation. It looks like flipping angles, or something like if it needs to make 5 degrees rotation, bone makes 355 degrees rotation. Search didnt help me, it feels like only I have this problem =(
I shall make a video, if it needed. I like Anima2d, its really cool tool, but ths problem just frustating me so much.
Thank you for help!

 

Hi, I have the same problem, did you find the sollution?

 

Having trouble binding my bones to my mesh. In the sprite editor, I can see the bones I'd like to bind to my mesh. But when I hit the bind button, the top two bones disappear leaving only the parent bone. Any thoughts?

 

And again cannot fix problem with unpredictable rotation of IKS

And a screenshot of animation curves
Frame 1 node should be around 325 degrees, but it jumps to zero unpredictably. The same goes on with lower values also, and it jumps below zero.

 

Hi guys. Which i should use for performance Anima2D or sprite animation? Are there performance differences between them?

 

Hi Sergi_Valls! Had you got invitation to conversation with scene from me?

And one more example:
1. Save idle pose at 0 frame.
2. I do some very small angle changes at 30th frame .
3. Load idle pose for looping, and get leg's almost 360 degrees rotation at 60th frame.