This readme has copied/pasted from the Spine runtime repository.

spine-ts

The spine-ts runtime provides functionality to load and manipulate Spine skeletal animation data using TypeScript and JavaScript. spine-ts is split up into multiple modules:

1. Core: core/, the core classes to load and process Spine skeletons.
2. WebGL: webgl/, a self-contained WebGL backend, built on the core classes.
3. Canvas: canvas/, a self-contained Canvas backend, built on the core classes.
4. THREE.JS: threejs/, a self-contained THREE.JS backend, built on the core classes.
5. Player: player/, a self-contained player to easily display Spine animations on your website, built on core the classes and WebGL backend.

While the source code for the core library and backends is written in TypeScript, all code is compiled to JavaScript.

Licensing

You are welcome to evaluate the Spine Runtimes and the examples we provide in this repository free of charge.

You can integrate the Spine Runtimes into your software free of charge, but users of your software must have their own Spine license. Please make your users aware of this requirement! This option is often chosen by those making development tools, such as an SDK, game toolkit, or software library.

In order to distribute your software containing the Spine Runtimes to others that don't have a Spine license, you need a Spine license at the time of integration. Then you can distribute your software containing the Spine Runtimes however you like, provided others don't modify it or use it to create new software. If others want to do that, they'll need their own Spine license.

For the official legal terms governing the Spine Runtimes, please read the Spine Runtimes License Agreement and Section 2 of the Spine Editor License Agreement.

Spine version

spine-ts works with data exported from Spine 3.8.xx.

The spine-ts WebGL and Player backends support all Spine features.

spine-ts Canvas does not support white space stripped texture atlases, color tinting, mesh attachments, or clipping. Only the alpha channel from tint colors is applied. Experimental support for mesh attachments can be enabled by setting spine.canvas.SkeletonRenderer.useTriangleRendering to true. Note that this experimental mesh rendering is slow and may lead to artifacts on some browsers.

spine-ts THREE.JS does not support two color tinting or blend modes. The THREE.JS backend provides SkeletonMesh.zOffset to avoid z-fighting. Adjust to your near/far plane settings.

Usage

1. Download the Spine Runtimes source using git or by downloading it as a zip via the download button above.
2. To use only the core library without rendering support, include the build/spine-core.js file in your project.
3. To use the WebGL backend, include the build/spine-webgl.js file in your project.
4. To use the Canvas backend, include the build/spine-canvas.js file in your project.
5. To use the Player, include build/spine-player.js and player/css/spine-player.css file in your project.
6. To use the THREE.JS backend, include the build/spine-threejs.js file in your project. THREE.JS must be loaded first.

All *.js files are self-contained and include both the core and respective backend classes.

If you write your app with TypeScript, additionally copy the corresponding build/spine-*.d.ts file into your project.

Note: If you are using the compiled .js files with ES6 or other module systems, you need to add:

export { spine };

At the bottom of the .js file you are using. You can then import the module as usual, for example:

import { spine } from './spine-webgl.js';

Examples

To run the various examples found in each of the spine-ts backend folders, the image, atlas, and JSON files must be served by a webserver. For security reasons browsers will not load these files from your local disk. To work around this, you can spawn a lightweight web server in the spine-ts folder, then navigate to the index.html file for the example you want to view. For example:

cd spine-ts
python -m SimpleHTTPServer // for Python 2
python -m http.server // for Python 3

Then open http://localhost:8000/webgl/example, http://localhost:8000/canvas/example, https://localhost:8000/threejs/example, or http://localhost:8000/player/example in your browser.

WebGL demos

The spine-ts WebGL demos can be viewed all on one page or in individual, standalone pages which are easy for you to explore and edit. See the standalone demos source code and view the pages here:

• Spine vs sprite sheets
• Image changes
• Transitions
• Meshes
• Skins
• Hoverboard
• Vine
• Clipping
• Stretchyman
• Tank
• Transform constraints

Please note that Chrome and possibly other browsers do not use the original CORS headers when loading cached resources. After the initial page load for a demo, you may need to forcefully refresh (hold shift and click refresh) or clear your browser cache.

WebGL examples

The WebGL demos serve well as examples, showing various ways to use the APIs. We also provide a simple, self-contained example with UI to control the skeletons:

• WebGL example

A barebones example is also available. It doesn't use JQuery and shows the minimal code necessary to use spine-ts with WebGL to load and render a skeleton:

• WebGL barebones

Development setup

The spine-ts runtime and the various backends are implemented in TypeScript for greater maintainability and better tooling support. To setup a development environment, follow these steps:

1. Install NPM and make sure it's available on the command line.
2. On the command line, Install the TypeScript compiler via npm install -g typescript.
3. Install Visual Studio Code.
4. On the command line, change into the spine-ts directory.
5. Start the TypeScript compiler in watcher mode for the backend you want to work on:

• Core: tsc -w -p tsconfig.core.json, builds core/src, outputs build/spine-core.js|d.ts|js.map.
• WebGL: tsc -w -p tsconfig.webgl.json, builds core/src and webgl/src, outputs build/spine-webgl.js|d.ts|js.map.
• Canvas: tsc -w -p tsconfig.canvas.json, builds core/src and canvas/src, outputs build/spine-canvas.js|d.ts|js.map.
• THREE.JS: tsc -w -p tsconfig.threejs.json, builds core/src and threejs/src, outputs build/spine-threejs.js|d.ts|js.map.
• Player: tsc -w -p tsconfig.player.json, builds core/src and player/src, outputs build/spine-player.js|d.ts|js.map.

6. Open the spine-ts folder in Visual Studio Code. VS Code will use the tsconfig.json file to find all source files for your development pleasure. The actual JavaScript output is still created by the command line TypeScript compiler process from the previous step.

Each backend contains an example/ folder with an index.html file that demonstrates the respective backend. For development, we suggest to run a HTTP server in the root of spine-ts, for example:

cd spine-ts
python -m SimpleHTTPServer // for Python 2
python -m http.server // for Python 3

Then navigate to http://localhost:8000/webgl/example, http://localhost:8000/canvas/example, http://localhost:8000/threejs/example, or http://localhost:8000/player/example.

WebGL backend

By default, the spine-ts WebGL backend supports two-color tinting. This requires more per vertex data to be submitted to the GPU and the fragment shader has to do a few more arithmetic operations. It has a neglible effect on performance, but you can disable two-color tinting like this:

// If you use SceneRenderer, disable two-color tinting via the last constructor argument.
var sceneRenderer = new spine.SceneRenderer(canvas, gl, false);

// If you use SkeletonRenderer and PolygonBatcher directly, disable two-color
// tinting in the respective constructor and use the shader returned by
// Shader.newColoredTextured() instead of Shader.newTwoColoredTextured().
var batcher = new spine.PolygonBatcher(gl, false);
var skeletonRenderer = new spine.SkeletonRenderer(gl, false);
var shader = Shader.newColoredTextured();

Using the Player

Please see the documentation for the Spine Web Player.