pixi-spine

Spine 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 implementation for PixiJS v5 & v6.

Typescript definitions are up-to-date with PixiJS v6.

For spine < 3.7 support is limited, but accepting PR's for runtime-3.7 package.

For previous versions of pixi & typescript definitions - please refer to README in pixi5

Demos:

https://pixijs.io/examples/#/plugin-spine/spineboy-pro.js

https://pixijs.io/examples/#/plugin-projection/runner.js

https://sbfkcel.github.io/pixi-spine-debug/

Basic Usage

Please read this carefully: there are three ways to add this lib to your app.

1. Angular, React, Webpack, Rollup - if you know those words, use ES6 bundles
2. Good old <script src="pixi-spine.umd.js"> , also named vanilla JS
3. Custom bundle, for guys who really want to shake da tree

ES6 bundles

import * as PIXI from 'pixi.js';
import {Spine} from 'pixi-spine';

const app = new PIXI.Application();
document.body.appendChild(app.view);

app.loader
    .add('spineCharacter', 'spine-data-1/HERO.json')
    .load(function (loader, resources) {
        const animation = new Spine(resources.spineCharacter.spineData);

        // add the animation to the scene and render...
        app.stage.addChild(animation);
        
        if (animation.state.hasAnimation('run')) {
            // run forever, little boy!
            animation.state.setAnimation(0, 'run', true);
            // dont run too fast
            animation.state.timeScale = 0.1;
        }
        
        app.start();
    });

Alternatively, you may use @pixi-spine/all-3.8 package.

Where are spine core classes?

Classes like AttachmentType, TextureAtlas, TextureRegion and Utils are shared across all spine versions, and re-exported by all bundles. But if you want to see them directly, they are in @pixi-spine-base.

Base also contains unified interfaces, ISkeleton, ISkeletonData, IAnimationData and so on, see ISkeleton.ts file.

Most of classes are spine-version-dependant, including Skeleton, SkeletonData, they are stored in corresponding packages @pixi-spine/runtime-3.8 and so on.

Vanilla JS, UMD build

All pixiJS v6 plugins has special umd build suited for vanilla.
Navigate pixi-spine npm package, take dist/pixi-spine.umd.js file. Alternatively, you can look in @pixi-spine/all-3.8 npm package.

<script src='lib/pixi.js'></script>
<script src='lib/pixi-spine.umd.js'></script>

const animation = new PIXI.spine.Spine(resources.spineCharacter.spineData);

Unfortunately, there are no typescript definitions for vanilla build on both pixi v6 and pixi-spine

Custom bundle

Main bundle pixi-spine weights more than 1 MB.

Bundle @pixi-spine/all-3.8 weights about 400 KB.

If you want to use different version (3.7, 4.0) please look how modules loader-3.8 and pixi-spine-3.8 are made.

Basically, you have to copy its code in a separate file in your project, and alter imports to corresonding version.

For example, here's bundle for 3.8:

import {SpineParser} from '@pixi-spine/loader-3.8';
export {SpineParser};
export * from '@pixi-spine/runtime-3.8';
export * from '@pixi-spine/base';

SpineParser.registerLoaderPlugin();

In case author was too lazy to publishloader-3.7 or loader-4.0, you can do the same trick with them, just look in sources of loader-3.8.

Want to go advanced?

Read our docs.

Two-color tint

Light-dark tint is supported with help of pixi-heaven Currently supported only by UMD build.

let spine = new PIXI.heaven.Spine(spineData);

Debug

To show bones and bounds you can use pixi-spine-debug. If you want to write your own debug plugin, look at how this one was created

Demo: https://sbfkcel.github.io/pixi-spine-debug/

Build & Development

You will need to have node setup on your machine.

Make sure you have rush installed:

npm install -g @microsoft/rush

Then you can install dependencies and build:

npm run prepare
npm run build

That will output the built all modules. UMD can be found in ./bundles/pixi-spine/dist.

If you use IntellIJ Idea / Webstorm to navigate the project, take this line and set it in project settings / exclude files

packages/*/node_modules;packages/*/compile;bundles/*/node_modules;bundles/*/compile;lib;dist