bevy_ecs_ldtk VS spine-runtimes

Collision detection - no auto-generated, you build your own manually. The LDtk integration has lots of examples here. Note that for 2D, if you only want rectangles bordering sprites, you can set the collider bounds equal to your sprite bounds, which gets you 99% of the way there

I've really enjoyed using ldtk for this kind of thing using this plugin https://github.com/Trouv/bevy_ecs_ldtk. The bevy setup for entities and collisions is a little verbose but there are solid examples in the repo that I was able to get working in my project very quickly by building from that code. It's pretty activity maintained and they've been responsive to bugs I file too.

However, I'm struggling with adding collider boxes to entities. In ecs_ldtk example (https://github.com/Trouv/bevy_ecs_ldtk/tree/main/examples/platformer) they spawn colliders automatically attached to entities. However, I would prefer to have them be slightly shifted (let's say, only 1-tile-sized collider attached to the player's legs or no collider on a tree crown), which means I need to spawn a child anchor to the entity and attach a collider to it. I guess one possible solution would be to have a system that does this for me on entity spawn, but maybe there's another solution I'm unaware of, and more experienced developers could help me here. Thanks in advance! :)

There are a bunch of programs that use rigged and meshed 2D images that create these sorts of animations. I have only used “Spline” for game animation http://esotericsoftware.com/

We're using Spine2D http://esotericsoftware.com/ It's really great

It’s rigged 2d animation. Look into spine. http://esotericsoftware.com

That's easy. Spine Pro.

You may have to learn spine separately from their tutorials and then figure out the godot integration from their sample projects: https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes/tree/4.1/spine-godot/example

From the first glance it seems like Spine provides their libraries in source format (under non open source license) with pure C++, C# and TS implementations that don't depend on binary blobs (at least it seemed like it). You can find it here https://github.com/esotericsoftware/spine-runtimes . Even if C++ version is not safe, C# and TS versions are probably fine and, and the license mentions creating derivative works (assuming you follow the Editor license terms and some of invovled parties have an editor license) so you are probably allowed to create modified library which processes the files safely.

For example Spine: http://esotericsoftware.com/