spine-cocos2dx v3.x

The spine-cocos2dx runtime provides functionality to load, manipulate and render Spine skeletal animation data using cocos2d-x. spine-cocos2dx is based on spine-c.

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-cocos2dx works with data exported from Spine 3.5.xx.

spine-cocos2dx supports all Spine features.

spine-cocos2dx does not yet support loading the binary format.

Setup

The setup for cocos2d-x differs from most other Spine Runtimes because the cocos2d-x distribution includes a copy of the Spine Runtime files. This is not ideal because these files may be old and fail to work with the latest Spine editor. Also it means if cocos2d-x is updated, you may get newer Spine Runtime files which can break your application if you are not using the latest Spine editor. For these reasons, we have requested cocos2d-x to cease distributing the Spine Runtime files, but they continue to do so. The following instructions allow you to use the official Spine cocos2d-x runtime with your cocos2d-x project.

1. Create a new cocos2d-x project. See the cocos2d-x documentation
2. Delete the folder cocos2d/cocos/editor-support/spine. This will remove the outdated Spine cocos2d-x runtime shipped by cocos2d-x.
3. Open your project in your IDE of choice, then open the cocos2d_libs sub project and delete the editor-support/spine group. This will remove the outdated Spine cocos2d-x runtime shipped by cocos2d-x from your build.
4. Download the Spine Runtimes source using git (git clone https://github.com/esotericsoftware/spine-runtimes) or download it as a zip
5. Add the sources from spine-c/spine-c/src/spine and spine-cocos2dx/src/spine to your project
6. Add the folders spine-c/spine-c/include and spine-cocos2dx/src to your header search path. Note that includes are specified as #inclue <spine/file.h>, so the spine directory cannot be omitted when copying the source files.

Example

The Spine cocos2d-x example works on Windows and Mac OS X.

Windows

1. Install Visual Studio 2015 Community
2. Install CMake via the Windows installer package.
3. Download the Spine Runtimes repository using git (git clone https://github.com/esotericsoftware/spine-runtimes) or download it as a zip
4. Run CMake GUI from the start menu
5. Click Browse Source and select the directory spine-runtimes
6. Click Browse Build and select the spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/build directory. You can create the build folder directly in the file dialog via New Folder.
7. Click Configure. This will download the cocos2d-x dependency and wire it up with the example source code in spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example. The download is 400mb, so get yourself a cup of tea.
8. Open the spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example/proj.win32/spine-cocos2d-x.sln file in Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio may ask you to install the Windows XP/7 SDK, which you should install.
9. Expand the cocos2d_libs sub project and delete the editor-support/spine group. This will remove the outdated Spine cocos2d-x runtime shipped by cocos2d-x from your build.
10. Expand References of the cocos2d_libs sub project, and remove the entry for libSpine, which should be marked with an error.
11. Right click the spine-cocos2d-x project in the solution explorer and select Set as Startup Project from the context menu
12. Click Local Windows Debugger to run the example

macOS/iOS

1. Install Xcode
2. Install Homebrew
3. Open a terminal and install CMake via brew install cmake
4. Download the Spine Runtimes repository using git (git clone https://github.com/esotericsoftware/spine-runtimes) or download it as a zip
5. Open a terminal, and cd into the spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx folder
6. Type mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../... This will download the cocos2d-x dependency and wire it up with the example source code in spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example. The download is 400mb, so get yourself a cup of tea.
7. Open the Xcode project in spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example/proj.ios_mac
8. Expand the cocos2d_libs.xcodeproj sub project, delete the group editor-support/spine. This will remove the outdated Spine cocos2d-x runtime shipped by cocos2d-x.
9. Click the Run button or type CMD+R to run the example

Android

1. Install the prerequisits for cocos2d-x Android development
2. Install Homebrew
3. Open a terminal and install CMake via brew install cmake
4. Download the Spine Runtimes repository using git (git clone https://github.com/esotericsoftware/spine-runtimes) or download it as a zip
5. Open a terminal, and cd into the spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx folder
6. Type mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../... This will download the cocos2d-x dependency and wire it up with the example source code in spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example. The download is 400mb, so get yourself a cup of tea.
7. Delete spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example/cocos2d/cocos/editor-support/spine
8. Open spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example/cocos2d/cocos/Android.mk and remove the lines LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += spine_static and `$(call import-module,editor-support/spine)
9. Switch to spine-runtimes/spine-cocos2dx/example/proj.android/jni and execute cocos compile -p android -m debug --ndk-mode debug to compile the example for Android
10. In the same directory, execute cocos run -p android -m debug to deploy to the device
11. For debugging, run ndk-debug in the proj.android/jni folder. This will attach to the running app via GDB.

Notes

• Images are premultiplied by cocos2d-x, so the Spine atlas images should not use premultiplied alpha.

Examples

• Raptor
• Spineboy
• Golbins