Gideros and Spriter

glennbjr · April 2012

Hopefully it's ok to post this here. This is just a heads up for everyone.

I just backed Spriter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/539087245/spriter and hope that support for Gideros will be added

phongtt · April 2012

Looks very coool. Thanks for sharing

avo · April 2012

Very interesting, I couldn't figure out when they expect to release the 1.0 but you can get the beta on their site here: http://www.brashmonkey.com/buyspriter.htm

also, it looks like they output to a XML format they are calling SCML and a lot of people are already making it compatible with different engines.

cool stuff.

ndoss · April 2012

Link to first cut of a Gideros library to read in the Spriter SCML file format: http://www.kosidossapps.com/archives/140

Here's what the Spriter demo looks like running in the Gideros player:

avo · April 2012

Thanks for reposting it @ndoss, and lucid if you check back I think the forum lost your account when a few hours were lost and it had to be restored from backup.

oh right and as I said before congrats on the big success with kickstarter!

ndoss · April 2012

I added a new spriter example -- it uses pubnub to control the movement of the hero.

Mouse clicks/movements send pubnub messages. The app subscribes to pubnub messages and moves to the destination provided in the message. In case this description doesn't make sense, here's a video:

The code is in our github repository (https://github.com/KosiDossApps/gideros_library_for_spriter) in the "example_hero_with_pubnub" directory.

If multiple people run the gideros project at the same time (or if you run it on multiple devices), any mouse clicks or dev console messages will control all instances of the app unless you change the pub/sub keys or the channel in the source code.

avo · April 2012

ok now you are just showing off I think

)

just kidding, cool idea @ndoss

gorkem · April 2012

I only see one hero here, it's Nathan \m/

gorkem · April 2012

Just a thought - with a game made using Gideros Studio, how would it be possible to connect to an Android device from your desktop, and see all the movements of the user as he plays the game? (assuming all necessary permissions are given, and you have all game assets since you are the developer of the game)

avo · April 2012

I'm not sure I get you exactly but in my pubhub test I was sending data to the desktop player by hitting Play in Gideros and it updated instantly on the device I had the same app on.

In theory if you had pubhub put each user in a unique channel and pumped the movement or whatever info through pubhub you could watch them interact with your game live by connecting your player to the channel. This would be an interesting way to user test apps, if there isn't something similar already.

atilim · April 2012

@ndoss whoa! that's great. ^:)^

@gorkem I don't know if I understand you correctly but maybe a mechanism to replicate the stage through network to another machine can work. Still the stage is the whole representation of what you see on the screen.

gorkem · April 2012

@avo If you can be able to send the assets and coordinates to a server, that are on stage while the game is running , then since you have the assets on your desktop and you have the coordinate information, you can place them on desktop player.

You can also catch and send touch events from the mobile device, and then visualize these events on the desktop player, while showing the graphical assets on stage.

This way, you can for example collect the stage hieararchy (e.g 10 times per second), send them to the server, and then parse the file & show these on desktop player using the same frequency (or slower, if you want to see how player performs in detail)

Hope I'm clear now.

avo · April 2012

Yes I think we are on the same page and it is very interesting. I think this is basically what @ndoss example does already, if you just listen in on the channel instead of pushing data to it yourself, and you create a new channel for each user.

duks · December 2012

Hi
I has anybody worked with this? I have tryed to play with this but the scml file in version a4.1 is total diferent

any help

mertocan · December 2012

Yes it doesnt work with a4.1

Tom2012 · January 2013

Hey everyone.

I work with puppet animation a lot and it would be great if this software would work with Gideros. Reading through the thread I'm not sure if it does or not?

Has anyone tried this yet? Is it supported by / does it support Gideros?

Thanks

Tom

phongtt · January 2013

Hey Tom,

Didn't you notice my signature? I hope it's what you're looking for

phongtt · January 2013

Ah, do you mean bone animation?

Tom2012 · January 2013

@phongtt

Hey thanks for that.

Yeah, I do mainly bone animation (as it's fast

)

I've just discovered spriter and trying to figure out how it might work with Gideros, as you'd effectively have much smaller sprite sheets and better animation.

I'll take a look at your script - thanks! I guess I was hoping Spriter would have a simple 'export to Gideros' / lua option.

OZApps · January 2013

Kinematics, I guess thats the technical term for bone animation

and btw, @Phongtt, your signature, does it have ... as in varArgs (Lua style) meaning everything or is it towards something specific, maybe a beer

phongtt · January 2013

Or skeletal animation? (I dunno)

@OZApps I won't tell but I think you know it

)

kredor7 · May 2014

Bringing back an old old thread here.

But has anyone used this lately with latest version of spriter?

Or has everyone that use bone animation moved to Spine?

phongtt · May 2014

My team (Guava7) has moved to Spine since then

keszegh · December 2016

you can get spriter pro now for a dollar...
https://www.humblebundle.com/game-developer-software-bundle
although i don't know how it works with gideros nowadays.

(pyxel edit seems interesting too for indie devs)

antix · December 2016

@kesegh man you beat me to it. I saw the bundle over on reddit and my eyes nearly popped out of my skull. I'm buying it right now

FYI all, that bundle contains heaps of great dev tools, not just Spriter!

antix · December 2016

Just be aware that you need Steam installed for a bunch of the products

tytadas · December 2016

@antix did you bought the spriter from the humblebundle.com?

antix · December 2016

@tytadas yes I purchased it. I had to reinstall Steam but it was still worth it. I paid $10 and got the entire bundle, SpriteIlluminator looks pretty amazing also.

pie · December 2016

Thanks for the info, this project by @PanPan may still work:
https://github.com/ippan/SpriterIntegration ( original thread )

If not, is there any chance to make one of the existing spriter api a gideros plugin?
https://brashmonkey.com/spriter-api/

antix · December 2016

@pie I will try to check that code or tomorrow and report back.

antix · December 2016

@pie from my experiment the newer files don't work with this code. I got my object to load and display but it just appeared as a random collection of sprites on screen. The file format seems a bit different also.

I wonder if it's possible to get an older version of Spriter, just for Gideros

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