plugin.spine43 (publisherId com.studycat)

Spine runtime plugin for Solar2D, for skeletons exported with Spine 4.3. It loads Spine .json or .skel files with their .atlas and plays them as display objects. Current version: 3.0.1.

Platforms: Android, iOS, iOS Simulator, macOS Simulator, Windows Simulator. It needs Solar2D 2026.3731 or newer.

build.settings

settings =
{
    plugins =
    {
        ["plugin.spine43"] =
        {
            publisherId = "com.studycat",
        },
    },
}

local spine = require("plugin.spine43")

Use one Spine plugin per app: plugin.spine43, plugin.spine42 or the older plugin.spine.

To stay on one release, add version = "vN" to the entry, with a tag from this repository's Releases page: v1 is 3.0.0, v2 is 3.0.1.

Links

• Documentation: https://spineplugin.readthedocs.io/en/4.3/
• Moving from plugin.spine42 (Spine 4.2): https://spineplugin.readthedocs.io/en/4.3/migration.html
• Source, changelog and issues: https://github.com/depilz/spinePlugin
• Skeletons exported with Spine 4.2 need plugin.spine42: https://github.com/solar2d/com.studycat-plugin.spine42

License

The plugin includes the Spine Runtimes by Esoteric Software, under the Spine Runtimes License Agreement in Spine-Runtimes-License-Agreement.txt. Each user of the plugin needs their own Spine Editor license: https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-editor-license