DragonBones animation format support maybe

[Beeblerox]

http://dragonbones.github.com/#e=0

[gamedevsam]

This would be huge!

I've been following Spriter (http://www.brashmonkey.com/index.htm) because of the performance and utility of paper doll animation (or 2D bone based animation). But progress has been pretty slow regarding their documentation and animated object loading APIs. There's a port for haxe (http://lib.haxe.org/p/HxSpriter), but it doesn't support bones or texture atlases yet.

I hadn't heard of this before, I'll be checking it out. Thanks!

[goshki]

I've seen their demos and it's pretty impressive (the mouse-aiming demo) although the performance in a stress-test demo was not jaw-dropping.

But I don't fully understand the creation process. I hope it's not limited to Flash IDE only.

[Beeblerox]

@crazysam maybe I should try to improve HxSpriter later
@goshki It's Flash IDE only, as I understood

[gamedevsam]

@Beeblerox I wouldn't bother until the AS3 implementation supports bones: http://www.brashmonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=532

[treydb]

Hey folks, @SlavaRa ported dragonbones to haxe and nme: https://github.com/SlavaRa/dragonboneshx3
It doesn't seem to support frame based animation, just classic tweens. Is anyone still interested in seeing this work alongside HaxeFlixel? I personally think it would be incredible!

[Beeblerox]

@treydb and @SlavaRa added this issue SlavaRa/haxelib-dragonbones#8 :)

[Gama11]

This should probably be implemented as an addon: HaxeFlixel/flixel-addons#52