Krita export plugin

Yurii.Lychak

Hi!
For me and most of Linux user (or users that don't have Photoshop license) I think very painfully to use Gimp plugin for export from PSD files, because sometimes it crashes on Photoshop groups and you need to ungroup all layers, you need to don't forgot revers them cause it exports draw order reversal (very annoying when you forgot that and need export it again or change draw order manually) :S.
Gimp have weaker support for PSD than Krita, and when you create all art in Krita or some artist send you PSD for animation you need to use Gimp for export it.
When Krita 4 release, it have feature for create python plugins https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/python_scripting/introduction_to_python_scripting.html.
There are is unofficial plugin https://github.com/chartinger/krita-unofficial-spine-export, but it will be grate to create official plugin, to avoid Gimp in work.

Nate

Hello! How well does that Krita script work? Do you know what license the author uses? We could maybe use it as a base for an official script, if the author is open to that.

Yurii.Lychak

Hi. Yes it works good, but have one problem. Krita support multiply layers with same name, and if you have they exported json is crashing on import (small bug, need to add suffix when export if layer duplicate name), in other cases It works well (More faster then Gimp). About license author of script use MIT license, and will not deny if you use it.

Bubble

Author here. Of course you can use it as a base. To be fair: not much code is needed for the current features and i am by no means an experienced python programmer. I am not sure how to proceed. Add the MIT licence and sign the Spine Runtimes Contributor License Agreement?

Feel free to open issues for all the bugs 🙂

Nate

Great, thank you! Just signing and emailing the CLA to contact@esotericsoftware is sufficient. I've added an issue:
https://waffle.io/EsotericSoftware/spine/cards/5b3ad16a688a020025565786

zhutian

Depends on what you need to do really.

Krita is specifically designed for digital painting, Gimp is way better at photo editing.

Krita has better brushes for drawing right out of factory (and in my opinion a better brush engine to create more) but can't print.

Gimp can print and is a good program for photo editing.

So you'll probably want to use both.

Arnissan

Back on the topic - it would be great to have an official Krita support for export. I'd love to ditch Photoshop and PhotoshopToSpine script is the only thing holding me back.