Making Vtuber Rigging

lnvthinh12

Since the release of the Physic feature in version 4.2 update, I have been wondering if Spine can be used for rigging 2D models for Vtuber. Besides using Spine Animation for Games, can Spine be applied for Rigging Vtuber?

Misaki

lnvthinh12 Spinebot's answer is correct! Although we do not provide specialized tools for using skeletons created with Spine as Vtubers, some users have already created their own tools for this purpose, and it is possible to create Vtuber avatars.
That said, in terms of whether it is possible to easily import skeleton data exported from Spine into commonly used tools for Vtubing, such as VTube Studio, this is not currently possible.

By the way, while the features in 4.2 are great, the Sliders and improved transform constraints added in 4.3-beta are also very useful for creating avatars for Vtubing, so please give them a try!

Erika

lnvthinh12 You are in luck, I'll be streaming a simplified version of this tomorrow!
https://esotericsoftware.com/blog/New-Twitch-stream-pngtuber-in-Spine

Spinebot

Spine can indeed be used for rigging 2D models for Vtubing. There is a third-party tool available for Vtubing using publicly available Spine skeletons, as mentioned in the forum discussion here. While Esoteric Software is interested in developing official tools to support Vtubing, other tasks currently take priority. However, the existing prototype and community interest indicate that Spine is a viable option for creating Vtuber models.

lnvthinh12

Erika Should I expect that Spine can rig a full body model after watching your stream tomorrow?

Erika

lnvthinh12 Spine can be used to rig full bodies of course, as for how to track these, as Misaki said, there have been tests and prototypes by various people, and this is the most notable one, as linked before:
https://silverstraw.itch.io/spine-vtuber-prototype-2

As for what you can expect from the stream, as said above, I will be showing how to set a simplified example that only tracks the voice: a pngtuber, no webcam tracking at this time.