spine-libgdx

The spine-libgdx runtime provides functionality to load, manipulate and render Spine skeletal animation data using libgdx.

Licensing

This Spine Runtime may only be used for personal or internal use, typically to evaluate Spine before purchasing. If you would like to incorporate a Spine Runtime into your applications, distribute software containing a Spine Runtime, or modify a Spine Runtime, then you will need a valid Spine license. Please see the Spine Runtimes Software License for detailed information.

The Spine Runtimes are developed with the intent to be used with data exported from Spine. By purchasing Spine, Section 2 of the Spine Software License grants the right to create and distribute derivative works of the Spine Runtimes.

Spine version

spine-libgdx works with data exported from Spine 3.6.xx.

spine-libgdx supports all Spine features and is the reference runtime implementation.

Setup

1. Download the Spine Runtimes source using git or by downloading it as a zip via the download button above.
2. Using Eclipse, import the project by choosing File -> Import -> Existing projects. For other IDEs you will need to create a new project and import the source.

Alternatively, the contents of the spine-libgdx/src directory can be copied into your project.

Notes

• The "test" source directory contains optional examples.
• spine-libgdx depends on the gdx-backend-lwjgl project so the tests can easily be run on the desktop. If the tests are excluded, spine-libgdx only needs to depend on the gdx project.
• spine-libgdx depends on the gdx-box2d extension project solely for the Box2DExample test.

Maven & Gradle

The spine-libgdx runtime is released to Maven Central through SonaType. We also deploy snapshot builds on every commit to the master repository. You can find the Jenkins build here.

Versions

You can find the latest version for release builds here.

You can find the latest SNAPSHOT version in the project's pom.xml.

If you want to use a different branch, e.g. 3.6-beta, build the artifact locally:

cd spine-libgdx/spine-libgdx
mvn install

The version number is composed of the editor number at the time of release of the Maven artifact plus a patch number at the end. E.g. 3.5.51.3 means editor version 3.5.51, and patch version 3 for the runtime. The editor version is updated everytime a new editor release is performed, the patch version is updated everytime a new fix or enhancement is released in the runtime.

Maven

To add the spine-libgdx runtime to your Maven project, add this dependency:

<depenency>
	<groupId>com.esotericsoftware.spine</groupId>
	<artifactId>spine-libgdx</artifactId>
	<version>3.5.51.1</version>
</depenency>

For SNAPSHOT versions, add the SonaType Snapshot repository to your pom.xml:

<repositories>
	<repository>
		<id>nightlies</id>
		<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
	</repository>
</repositories>

Gradle

To add the spine-libgdx runtime to your libGDX Gradle project, add the following dependencies to the core project in the build.gradle file at the root of your libGDX project:

project(":core") {
    apply plugin: "java"

    dependencies {
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx:$gdxVersion"
        compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-box2d:$gdxVersion"

        compile "com.esotericsoftware.spine:spine-libgdx:3.5.51.1"
    }
}

Examples

• HTML5 example
• Super Spineboy Full game example done with Spine Essential, includes source code.
• Simple example 1 Simplest possible example, fully commented.
• Simple example 2 Shows events and bounding box hit detection.
• Simple example 3 Shows mesh rendering and IK using the raptor example.
• More examples