Vsquared Squidget

Hey guys. Thanks for the bug report. Please see if this fixes it. Also realized with Squidget's cap that setting the starting entity property was a requirement, which was also a bug. It should now default to the first entity of the file (at runtime) if you leave that blank.

Hi again, everyone

I'm having trouble calling an animation that is in a different entity. So lets say i have a few sprites in the first entity i call "basic" and another entity that is called "weapon" how do i call those animations in weapon, in construct2? I know i'm using the right name because as soon as it tries to initiate, it goes blank

Sorry Vsquared, thought I had responded to your post. Those options are added in this latest version

5/10/13

<img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">Added 'Set Entity' action. Allows you to set the new current entity(character) by name, and a starting animation. If you leave the animation name blank, it will attempt to find an animation of the same name as the old entity's current animation <img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">Added 'entityName' expression to get the name of the current entity <img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">Added starting entity and starting animation edittime properties. These let you choose a starting entity and animation per instance without having to use actions to set these.

also, we have some new Spriter program overview videos for anyone still learning the program:

b2 overview video

edit:

CocoonJS needs to add XML Parsing for SPriter to work with it. Supposedly they are talking with Ludei about it...

We aren't in talks with Ludei. The ball is in their court for now. The last I heard of it, was in this thread on 2/28/2013:

thehen In the last release we added internal support for XML parsing, but it's not yet exposed in JS. So, it's getting closer! Hopefully we'll find the time to add full XML parsing support for the next release. edited><editid>lucid</editid><editdate>2013-05-10 22:28:26</editdate></edited>

hi Joannesalfa,

please make sure you're using the email you purchased with, and if you're still not receiving a key email us at mailgnd@brashmonkey.com and we will sort it out. Thanks.

hi — The solution to the ball of sprites will also solve the resizing thing. I have some major bugs to fix with copy paste, but I anticipate (this isn't written in stone yet), that I will do a hotfix for the copy paste bugs, and then Spriter b3 will have the collision boxes, and then I will update the plugin as well. Again there's too many variables for this to be a guarantee, but it's the basic roadmap.

Thanks Alisa (and Kyatric, though we already spoke in chat),

Yes, all future versions will work with the plugin. I'm going to work a way to fix the ball of sprites problem for the next public build, and forward the extra info to Ashley to implement it into the editor. I think I figured out a good way to do it without compromising the file format.

Also, very excited about the upcoming feature set. The rest of the features are the real game changers. Particularly the top secret 1.x featureset. Getting ahead of myself though.

Everyone please remember, if there's anything aside from the ball of sprites and reimporting issues, please report any bugs and feature wishlists.

<font size="1">PS: Just realize the typo with the thread topic name date: 4/25/1313. Talk about development hell. :)</font>

you're not bothering me at all. I love talking about Spriter. Not having a way to reload an animation yet has been the number one complaint/thing that people think is missing to keep the plugin from feeling complete and useable in a serious large project. This will require a bit of work from Ashley (as there's nothing built into c2 that does anything like this) so it was kinda on the long term todo list last time I spoke to him about it. Since a few people have asked and it's been a while, I'll bring it up to him again next time I see him online.

Zharzew, I was just speaking with Ashley about this recently (the plugin is a collaboration of c2 program things, and the plugin itself). Ashley need s few things from me to get those features working (viewing the assembled character in the layout editor in c2), and I will get to that as soon as I release the next beta version of Spriter in the next few days

Zharzew tutorials coming soon. Video tutorials in fact, just approaching 1.0 in Spriter and rushing to get that done. To import into C2, drag the scml file from windows into the c2 layout.

thanks jayderyu

<font size="3">update 4/25/13:

<img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Play To...' action from working correctly

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jayderyu, could you please email me the capx so I can see the problem. if you sent it to me before I'm not finding the email

Thanks BluePhaze.

Small update on the other issues. Talked it over with Ashley. The issue with the extra layouts not automatically getting the file property set (not firing on_initialized) will be fixed in an upcoming C2 version. (the next I believe)

As far as being able to resize in the layout visually, it's going to require a little bit of thought, as it will most likely involve saving a little extra information to the file format, which I don't want to add without thinking it over carefully. I'll work this into one of the upcoming versions.

<font size="3">update 4/21/13:

<img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">Fixed issue where animations with objects on only some frames would leave a static object on screen when the object wasn't on the current frame <img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">Fixed bug where after a nonlooping animation completed, moving it would not update the sprites (scml object moved, sprites didn't) <img src="smileys/smiley38.gif" border="0" align="middle">added 'animationName' expression to get the current animation name

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Squidget, the issue with on initialized only working on certain layouts should be fixable by ensuring that the Scml File property of the plugin probably wasn't set to the correct file. This requires c2 code, so I have to speak with Ashley about a way to make it default to the same property for new instances. when you first import it does this automatically, but if you drag another instance into a new layout, you have to do it manually.

jayderyu, the feature to replace sprites with alternate body parts, weapons, etc will arrive in the plugin after it's complete for the Spriter editor

BluePhaze, being able to resize them would be most useful if c2 allowed the file to be visually resized with the object showing on screen in c2. I have a few ideas how this could happen, but they require c2 code, so I'll speak to ashley about them. Also the part about the collisions will be best handled when collision features arrive in spriter. I'll prioritize those pro-features as one of the first. This is definitely essential stuff

We're caught up on bug fixes and requests as far as I know, so please continue to report anything you find or if I have missed something.