Spine Feature Request - Copy Keys (selected or not) and Hierarchies between skeletons

I've made a video with sound where I show and explain what I as a new user with experience from other 3D packages and software were expecting but is not possible to do and the work around that for a simple quick task that becomes cumbersome and time consuming. I dearly wish for this to be implemented as soon as possible as it's very frustrating to not being able to just copy a couple of keys between bones and slots in another skeleton when it works just fine within the same. It's very counter intuitive to how you expect it to behave and I've had at least two colleagues remark on this short coming as well.

Excellent reply,

I understand the short comings and complexities but at least when copying keys, they should transfer the same way they do within a skeleton to another.

• If there are differences in the bone structure when copying keys that resides on more than one bone/slot/attach I would probably past the keys that fits and give a small warning that not all were transferred due to hierarchical mismatch or naming.
• I also support the option of getting a dialogue, perhaps one that that gives you "past to matching simple hierarchy (as best as possible regardless of names)", this would work on a singe bone with a singe slot with a single attachment (or the top one) or a hierarchy of singe bones like a tail or spine. Then one for "only past to matching names" or something like that.
• In worst case I can at least copy keys from just one bone/slot/attach and past it onto another regardless of name, more tedious but still manageable and is close to what I was expecting for starters.

Also where should the keys go for the animations? I think it should go to the currently active animation on the target skeleton, that makes intuitive sense.

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As for bringing over a hierarchy to another skeleton, here is how I see it working:

When dragging and drooping a hierarchy, you should get an options dialog asking some thing like this:

1. "Do you want to just bring over the selected keys for the current active animation of the source to the current active animation on the target"
2. "Do you want to bring over all animations that transferred hierarchy is part of to the target." then "If so, do you want to paste keys into animations with matching names or create new animations."

[] = source and taget animation

copy.. 

Skeleton Source:
BoneArm1
 BoneHand2
  Slot
   Attach
Animation: [Wave], Punch, Walk

to..

Skeleton Target:
BoneArm1
 BoneHand2
  Slot
   Attach
Animation: Wave, Jump

where option 1 will result in...

Skeleton Target:
BoneArm1
 BoneHand2
  Slot
   Attach
Animation: [Wave], Jump
or
Animation: Wave, [Jump]

and option 2 will result in...

Skeleton Target:
BoneArm1
 BoneHand2
  Slot
   Attach
Animation: Wave, Punch, Jump
or
Animation: Wave, Wave2, Punch, Jump

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Other Feature Request I have are:

• Ability to skip over the Spine File dialog menu directly to OS dialog option as I never use the Spine dialogue and just find it an extra step, especially for "saving as" as I rarely or ever want to over write an existing file but just want to get to the OS dialogue to input a new name. Maybe have it as an options check box in the settings. As for folder shortcuts in the spine dialogue, I actually use my own system of favorites folders with Widows 10 Quick Access instead as I use it in all apps and dialogues as well as file explorer.

• Relative file paths for export. This is quite a critical thing to have as we all are working from home right now with different folder structures but when a colleague want to export it does so to the wrong location on their system as it's not relative to our project structure but rather the absolute path of where they actually put the whole game project on their disk. This is a real pain in the butt right now.

• Be able to grab and scroll in panels (eg hierarchy) with my Wacom pen, in Blender you can navigate the list panels this way and it's very convenient with the pen or else I need to constantly grab my mouse for the wheel or go to the scroll bar on the right which becomes tedious after a while. Ideally this should behave like the view port where you just use RMB to pan, but I know it's currently mapped to expand/collapse hierarchies. I would love to se a option to switch this behaviors so panning can be done with just RMB and the expand/collapse can be done by alt+RMB and or vice verse. Also Photoshop expands/collapses folder hierarchies with alt+LMB

• Being able to zoom in the Dopesheet time with my Wacom pen. This works well in 3D apps as well as you can often zoom and pan with the pen the same way you do in the view port, often by utilizing the MMB or a combination of alt+button or similar. In Spine's case it should preferably work like the view port, ctrl+RMB. Then I could zoom with both a pen and a mouse without relying on a using a scroll wheel.

• When dropping a png sequence onto a slot, I would love for it to aske me if I want to populate the time line with it starting from my current time line indicator, now you have to manually frame step with R and toggle visibility of each attach.

• Last but not least, I dearly need a new sequence attachment type so that I can easily mesh warp a png sequence, I don't want to have a long list of individual meshes as it becomes a nightmare if you want to tweak the mesh. Right now you just have to start over and re-rig everything.

Thank you again for listening.

Nate escreveu

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Hi Nate, did you see my replay above?