Parenting to Vertex

lizzard

I was wondering what the best practices are for things like buttons, which should move along a mesh when it deforms, but it shouldn't deform itself. In 3D software, you would parent the object to a vertex, but I don't know how to do something similar in Spine.

Erika

I need to do similar things and my solution is to make the button a mesh and if I don't want it to deform I simply bind all the vertexes to the 2-3 bones influencing my other mesh in that area. Works like a charm and you don't even have to add extra bones

lizzard

Thanks! 😃

Do you know if there is a way to copy/paste weights to a vertex? That seems like it would expedite the process quite a bit.

Erika

If you have different skins then linked mesh is a solution.
Otherwise I suggest you select all the vertexes at the same time by holding ctrl and tuning them. I hope that's what you meant, otherwise, welcome to the club!