Spine with multiple json files

Cocos Creator
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In Cocos Creator 3.8.3, I have a spine asset which consist of one spine.atlas file, one spine.png file and multiple json files like spine1.json, spine2.json and spine3.json.

I am encountering error when importing the spine asset due to cocos editor tries to find spine1.atlas, spine2.atlas and spine3.atlas. I was able to do this in cocos 2.4 by altering spine-meta.js in the engine but I wasn’t able to locate the same file or its counterpart in 3.8.3. Is there any way I can customize the path of the atlas to load?

Error messages:
[Assets] Importer exec failed: /Users/user/Documents/Projects/Cocos/TestSpine/assets/spine1.json
[Assets] Can not find /Users/user/Documents/Projects/Cocos/TestSpine/assets/spine1.atlas

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Hi, if it is impossible please let me know. Thanks.

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could you please provide the demo for us to check?

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Please check on this demo. You will be able to see the following errors when opening the project.

[Assets] Importer exec failed: /Users/user/Documents/Projects/Cocos3.0/TestSpineCyka/assets/spineboy-pro_atlas_gun.json

[Assets] Can not find /Users/user/Documents/Projects/Cocos3.0/TestSpineCyka/assets/spineboy-pro_atlas_gun.atlas

[Assets] Importer exec failed: /Users/user/Documents/Projects/Cocos3.0/TestSpineCyka/assets/spineboy-pro_atlas_portal.json

[Assets] Can not find /Users/user/Documents/Projects/Cocos3.0/TestSpineCyka/assets/spineboy-pro_atlas_portal.atlas

What I want to achieve is to detect the file name of the json file with ‘_atlas’ then get the string before the ‘_atlas’ text and load the atlas file with the string.

If the above mentioned is achieved in this demo, when the json file spineboy-pro_atlas_portal.json is loaded, the ‘_atlas’ string in the file name is found so it will load spineboy-pro.atlas instead of spineboy-pro_atlas_portal.atlas.

I was able to customize this in cocos 2.4.7 by changing the contents in spine-meta.js but I could not find its counterpart in cocos 3.8.3.

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en , How do you custom this in Cocos 2.4.7 to make it available?

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Sorry for the late reply. I was able to achieve this by altering the searchAtlas function in spine-meta.ts in Cocos 2.4.7, I modify the value of the path variable with conditions.

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Hi, any update on this?

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Hi @Tom_k , any update on this?

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You cant not custom the path of the atlas to load in 383. sorry for that.

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noooooooooo
NOOOO

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could you please provide the email to me?

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I think you can just clone the spine.atlas file to multiple files and rename those files to spine1.atlas, spine2.atlas,… That is a work around for me

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Thank you, I am aware of this approach and it is what I am trying to avoid as there is no point having multiple atlas files when they have the same content.

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I am just aware this approach doesn’t work on native Android build. It will cause the game crash in cocos ver 3.8.3

spine-cocos2dx.cpp:110: virtual void spine::Cocos2dTextureLoader::load(spine::AtlasPage &, const spine::String &): assertion "(texture)!=(nullptr)" failed

Do your team aware of this issue @Tom_k ?

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This is the way to implement to cause the crash on Android?

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Yes, the android crash with the error I post above, the web version work fine

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We will fixed it in 386. Currently you can create one individual png and atlas for each json.

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