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Friday, May 11, 2018

Fedora 28 : The Spin tool for 2D animation.

The spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for your video games.
This tool comes with features to building great looking animations.
Spine exports animation data in its own, documented JSON and binary formats.
You can export animated GIFs, PNG or JPEG image sequences and AVI or QuickTime video.
I install the trial version into my Fedora 28 distro easy.
First, you need to download it and unarchive from the official website.
The next step will start with this command:
[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd SpineTrial/
[mythcat@desk SpineTrial]$ dir
examples  launcher  license.txt  runtimes  scripts  SpineTrial.sh
[mythcat@desk SpineTrial]$ sh SpineTrial.sh 
Spine Launcher 3.6.49 Trial
Linux amd64 4.16.6-302.fc28.x86_64
Java 1.7.0_80 Esoteric Software
64-bit Server VM
Downloading: Spine 3.7.16-beta Trial
Update complete.
Spine 3.7.16-beta Trial
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop 
3.0 Mesa 18.0.2
Resetting hotkeys (new version).
Using customized hotkeys.
Started.
May 10, 2018 6:54:08 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences checkLockFile0ErrorCode
WARNING: Could not lock System prefs. Unix error code 0.
May 10, 2018 6:54:08 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: 
Couldn't get file lock.
May 10, 2018 6:54:38 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences checkLockFile0ErrorCode
WARNING: Could not lock System prefs. Unix error code 0.
May 10, 2018 6:54:38 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: 
Couldn't get file lock
You can some warnings but the tool works great.
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Look at these screenshots with Spine tool: