We'll consider more options for naming. The export settings already resemble spaceship controls, so we'd need to find a way to add more settings while still keeping it nice.

Supporting WebM would be great. I know we looked into it when we did the last big export improvements, adding APNG, PSD, etc. I don't remember exactly why WebM wasn't included, but my guess is there weren't great libraries available at the time. We'll revisit it in the future, though it won't make it into 4.0.

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We'll consider more options for naming. The export settings already resemble spaceship controls, so we'd need to find a way to add more settings while still keeping it nice.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I just came across this issue myself and I think although an option to select the number of digits would be ideal, that just defaulting to double digit numbering so sorting of images works correctly when there are more than 10 frames would suffice until a full "user selectable" implementation could be looked at.

Another thing would be the ability to select the seperator character used when exporting all animations at once, the default character appears to be a "-" (dash).

This is an issue as I use underscores in my file/folder/asset names and within Spine have animations organised within folders, which means that when I export all animations at once it inserts dashes and I end up with filenames such as:

male_character-down_right-idle_0

or

male_character-down-walk_4

Obviously this is annoying as I then have to rename them to replace the dashes with underscores, but if there was an option even in the main settings (not the export window) to set the seperator character used for generated exports then this wouldn't be a problem as I could just set it there and everything would work perfectly.

Keep up the good work!

v4 pads with zeros based on the highest image number and uses underscore when appending the number. You can specify separator in a pack.json file:
Texture packing - Spine User Guide: separator

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v4 pads with zeros based on the highest image number and uses underscore when appending the number. You can specify separator in a pack.json file:
Texture packing - Spine User Guide: separator

Hey Nate,

I found the info in the docs on 'pack.json' and seperator before posting but it says that it defaults to underscore and only works when appending the numbers. I saw that the numbers do get appended correctly to my png files with an underscore and it seems that is working as intended with the default underscore.

However the issue I have is that when exporting all animations at once and those animations are organised inside folders within Spine, when building the png filename the folder names are appended to the skeleton name and seperated with dashes. This can be seen in the example filenames I gave above where the folder names are separated with dashes and the rest with underscores (my own naming + the default 'seperator' for frames numbers).

The folder names in the above examples are 'down_right' and 'down'.

Also, the engine I use won't be updating Spine runtimes until v4 comes out of beta, so I was wondering if there is a rough ETA as to when that might be planned?

Thanks!

Ah, true, there are separators in places other than texture packing. We'll see about making it customizable in 4.1.

4.0 is ready to come out of beta. We've had some time consuming hang ups preparing for the release, but it shouldn't be long now!

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Ah, true, there are separators in places other than texture packing. We'll see about making it customizable in 4.1.

4.0 is ready to come out of beta. We've had some time consuming hang ups preparing for the release, but it shouldn't be long now!

Awesome news on both fronts, can't wait - thank you!

I'll second (third) the desire for better video export options. I operate on Patreon, and often want to share raw animations with my supporters. Spine's exports right now are all really big; I usually end up having to run it through Adobe Media Encoder to get anything small enough to share. WebM and MP4/H.265 would be ideal (WebM especially because it supports Alpha, which makes future compositing easier)

Hello!
I'd like to bump this thread again since a new interesting application of the webm format has been made.
Starting from version v8.5, Telegram supports animated stickers in webm format. So since TVG is not an option because it's only for vectors, I think that a webm export directly in Spine would be a great addition for the further releases. Creating animated stickers for Telegram could make happy many animators out of there

Thanks you!

Please note 4.1.21-beta has WEBM, AWEBP, MPEG4, ProRes 4444, AC3, AAC!

I'll add that today we'll do a stream specifically focused on the pipeline to make animated Telegram stickers :allthethings:

Blog: New Twitch streams: Let's create Telegram stickers!