Subject: Guide - Importing a Spine Animation into TK2D

Rezwan wrote
Is there a tutorial on importing Spine Animation into Unity without TK2D?

I am working on the video now, but you might find this handy before-hand! Here is the transcript for the video (might have some grammar mistakes xD ):

Guidez here everybody.

You've completed your Spine animation, and now it's time to import it into Unity3D. With Spine open,
click the Spine logo in the upper left hand side, and then click Export. Click the Browse button, and then
navigate to your projects Assets folders. Create a new folder, calling it "SpineData" or anything you like,
and then click Export. The export should only take a few seconds.

Once the export is done and before you open Unity, head over into your assets folder, righ-click the skeleton.json file,
choose rename, and add dot txt to the end of the filename to change it to a text file.
Likewise, righ-click the skeleton.asset file, choose rename, and add dot txt to the end of the filename.

We're also going to need the runtimes for Unity, so go back to the root of your Assets folder,
and then open up your web browser. Navigate to the Esoteric Software website, and then click the Runtimes link. Scroll down a bit,
and then click the Unity, C sharp link under the Official Runtimes column. We'll need to back up to the master page, so click the
Spine-runtimes link at the top, and on the right side of the page click the Download Zip button. Save the zip file anywhere on your computer,
and then open it.

Double-click the spine-runtimes-master folder. What you're gonna do now is click and drag the spine-csharp folder in your assets folder, and
then likewise click and drage the spine-unity folder into your assets folder. Once that's done, you can close the Zip file, and then open up your
Unity project.

In your Unity project, you should now have those three new folders: Spine C Sharp, spine unity, and spinedata. Open up your spineData folder,
right-click on it and choose Create and choose to create a new material. Let's change the name of the material to, skeletonMaterial. With the
material selected, click and drag the skeleton texture file into the material's Texture box. Then, click the shader drop-down, and choose Tranparent
and then Diffuse.

Now we're done with all the prep-work, and we can finally get around to importing the Spine assets. Right-clikc the Spine Data folder, choose Create,
and then all the way near the bottom choose the Spine Atlas option. Rename the atlas to My Spine Atlas, moving it to the spine data folder if you like,
and then with it selected, click and drag the skeleton.atlas
text file into the atlas file field. Then, increase the size of the Materials from 0 to 1, and click and drag your Skeleton Material into the new field.

With that setup, let's right click the SpineData folder, choose Create, and then choose Spine SkeletonData. Rename the SkeletonData to My Skeleton Data, and then move it
into the spine data folder if you feel like it. With it selected, click and drag the My Spine Atlas file in the Atlas Asset field, and then click and drag the skeleton.json
file into the Skeleton JSON field. If all went well, the Animation State Data drop down should appear, and you can keep clicking the Add Mix button to add more
animations.

So now let's get our sprite into the scene. In the Heirachy window, click your camera and make sure the Projection is set to orthographic. Then, still in the Hierarchy
window, click the Create dropdown and choose Spine SkeletonAnimation. With the new skeleton animation selected, click and drag your "My Skeleton Data" asset into
the skeleton data asset field, and KABLAM, you now have a Spine sprite in your game! If you can't see the sprite in the game view, just back up your camera on the Z axis a
bit.

You all might get a message that says "Shader wants normals" or something similar. To fix that and to allow lights to affect the sprite, check-on the "Calculate normals"
check-box while the skeleton animation is selected. You can now play with the other settings, add a light, and hit Play to see your animation in action. Keep on derping!