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I used Spine a while back. It's such a lovely tool with a great UI, and compatible with Linux. It's neither free nor open source though so I don't know if this

I used Spine a while back. It's such a lovely tool with a great UI, and compatible with Linux. It's neither free nor open source though so I don't know if this is very suitable here on HN. In any case, I wrote an exporter for Inkscape since they only had an Illustrator plugin for vector graphics: https://github.com/jleclanche/inkscape-spine-exporter https://github.com/jleclanche/inkscape-spine-exporter

aptwebapps 11y ago
There's absolutely nothing in either HN's guidelines or general culture to exclude non-free software (in either sense).
veli_joza 11y ago
The Inkscape to Spine exporter sounds very interesting. It would be great if your repo also included an example SVG and maybe a screenshot so users can get a feeling of functionality.
galaktor 11y ago
fwiw, Spine is made using libgdx [1], which is open source. The various stretch-goal animation runtimes are also available [2] on Github. AFAIK the team behind both libgdx and Spine are quite good at giving back to the community. After libgdx they quit their day jobs and went full-time as Esoteric Software [3] and did an excellent job following through with Spine's two kickstarters. I think this is very relevant to HN not only because of the guys' open source contributions but also their entrepreneurial history (success?). [1] https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx [2] https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes [3] http://esotericsoftware.com/ http://esotericsoftware.com/ (I'm not affiliated with ES but was a backer of Spine and am a user of libgdx)
- scrollaway 11y ago
  I didn't know libgdx was from them. Fascinating!
- aptwebapps 11y ago
  I think Spine was started by one of the libGDX guys, Nate Sweet, and someone else (I can't find an About or Team page on their site). The other primary libGDX developer is Mario Zechner ('badlogic around here) but I don't think he's on the Esoteric team. I think he works for RoboVM now, in fact.

aptwebapps 11y ago

There's absolutely nothing in either HN's guidelines or general culture to exclude non-free software (in either sense).

veli_joza 11y ago

The Inkscape to Spine exporter sounds very interesting. It would be great if your repo also included an example SVG and maybe a screenshot so users can get a feeling of functionality.

galaktor 11y ago

fwiw, Spine is made using libgdx [1], which is open source. The various stretch-goal animation runtimes are also available [2] on Github. AFAIK the team behind both libgdx and Spine are quite good at giving back to the community. After libgdx they quit their day jobs and went full-time as Esoteric Software [3] and did an excellent job following through with Spine's two kickstarters. I think this is very relevant to HN not only because of the guys' open source contributions but also their entrepreneurial history (success?). [1] https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx [2] https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes [3] http://esotericsoftware.com/ http://esotericsoftware.com/ (I'm not affiliated with ES but was a backer of Spine and am a user of libgdx)

scrollaway 11y ago
I didn't know libgdx was from them. Fascinating!
aptwebapps 11y ago
I think Spine was started by one of the libGDX guys, Nate Sweet, and someone else (I can't find an About or Team page on their site). The other primary libGDX developer is Mario Zechner ('badlogic around here) but I don't think he's on the Esoteric team. I think he works for RoboVM now, in fact.