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Support / Re: Using Tilemap Editor for Top Down RPG

« on: June 30, 2013, 12:34:24 am »

Hmm that's pretty much what I said I am already doing (lots of foreground sprites with a script that maps their y->z on startup).

I was thinking that painting them on a layer would be a lot easier to manage than masses of gameobjects, and 'simply' having each mesh row on that layer offset it's Z when built would give the same result. Like the existing Z separation for layers, but for each row within a layer.

Could you point me to the right place to make a change like that, or is it totally unfeasible?

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Support / Re: Using Tilemap Editor for Top Down RPG

« on: June 29, 2013, 05:24:13 am »

This thread is slightly old but since it's relevant to what I am doing I thought I'd post comments here rather than start a new one. I'm also attempting an angled top-down game with a camera view much like an old jrpg, Phantasy Star IV for example:


In point 2, I think Sundaerae is trying to deal with sorting by having a layer for each row. By setting each row of tiles at a different height your characters can pass in front/behind tiles that overlap other tiles (like trees) easily, if the characters Z are also based on their Y position.

I'm trying to do something similar - have a layer for flat terrain and on top of that a layer for props and structures that moving objects like characters should be able to pass behind and in front of. At the moment I am using freely placed sprites for these structures, and a script on each that sets their Z value based on the Y position.

However, it's somewhat unwieldy compared to just painting tilemaps so I was wondering if there is another way ... is there another method you can think of, or perhaps a place in the mesh gen code where I can add an offset to the Z position on a row-by-row basis for a particular layer?

Another question: accessing layers through code - I see that layers are int based, but in the UI the layers all have string identifiers. Is there a way to tell which layer is 0,1,2 etc if I have given them all readable names, and no longer have numbers there? Are they numbered by their order in the inspector maybe?

edit: Ok I see the layer number can be inferred from the tk2dTileMapData asset, by the ordering of the array in the inspector.

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Support / Re: Tilemap sprite doesn't display when prefab is attached

« on: June 26, 2013, 02:08:21 pm »

Heh excellent, thanks.

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Support / Re: Tilemap sprite doesn't display when prefab is attached

« on: June 26, 2013, 01:58:16 pm »

Cheers, so I just call Build() on the tilemap after I've made my changes? Nothing layer-specific? Would it be better maintaining a second tilemap rather than a layer since layer 0 won't be changing?

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Support / Re: Tilemap sprite doesn't display when prefab is attached

« on: June 26, 2013, 01:45:32 pm »

I was thinking ease of prototyping rather than efficiency, so was just going to use Easytouch to return the object you tap on.

But yeah probably best to do it properly - I can get the world position from the Easytouch screen point via a plane raycast as you suggest. So that gives me the XY of the tile and the type of tile.

For highlighting tiles (showing pathing/attack ranges) - I am thinking another layer above the tiles I have, I can use the same XY and use SetTile on this layer to swap between showing/hiding various overlays. Sound a reasonable method?

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Support / Re: Tilemap sprite doesn't display when prefab is attached

« on: June 26, 2013, 11:06:11 am »

At the moment I am testing for a tile-based tactics game. I have a set of ground tiles (painted with the tilemap editor) and want each tile to be it's own object with it's own box collide and script (but have the visuals that I painted combined into a single mesh), the aim being to easily pick individual tile objects with touch and send messages to them for highlighting etc.

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Support / Re: Tilemap sprite doesn't display when prefab is attached

« on: June 26, 2013, 10:30:18 am »

Is there any other way to achieve this and still have the sprites combined into a single mesh?

I am basically looking to spawn individual collide boxes for each tile (the prefab attach system is awesome) but want the sprite visuals to stick around and be combined into a single mesh.

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Support / Re: Farseer support?

« on: June 22, 2013, 06:59:42 am »

You're right. I did up a not-very-scientific test for my iPad based on large numbers of interacting physics boxes and seeing how many could spawn before the frame rate died, and Physx smoked Farseer 3:1. On desktop Physx wins out 2:1.

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Support / Re: How to set pixel-perfect scale for Tilemaps in perspective cameras

« on: June 21, 2013, 12:30:26 pm »

Excellent, thanks again. All good now.

My problem with the layers came down to it working backwards to how I expected. I was trying to shift background layers along +Z away from the camera by typing in positive numbers. But it actually works by shifting foreground layers along -Z towards the camera by typing in positive numbers. Now I know.

I grabbed the beta from the pre-release forum and will take it for a spin, cheers.

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Support / Re: Farseer support?

« on: June 21, 2013, 11:24:46 am »

Oh no, I had no idea the mobile performance was bad. I haven't personally tried it outside of desktop builds.

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Support / Farseer support?

« on: June 21, 2013, 02:24:23 am »

I read that at one point Farseer integration was planned for 2d toolkit. Is this still in the pipeline?

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Support / Re: How to set pixel-perfect scale for Tilemaps in perspective cameras

« on: June 20, 2013, 11:45:38 pm »

Thanks for that, I bought the software and have had a bit of a play now. I do have some follow up questions:

1. In the sprite collection I set target height and ortho size - what should the ortho size be if I am not using ortho camera? 1? Irrelevant?
2. Where/how do I actually set the scale value for tilemaps?
3. In the tutorial interface pictures under Tile Properties there is a 'Layer Offset' parameter that doesn't seem to exist in the version I have. Is that coming back, or is there a workaround for setting layer separation?

Thanks again, looks to be a quality product.

edit: Regarding #3, I see the tileMapData asset has a "Z" parameter for each layer, but changing it doesn't seem to do anything.

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Support / How to set pixel-perfect scale for Tilemaps in perspective cameras

« on: June 20, 2013, 12:09:45 pm »

Hi, continuing on here from the Unity forums as requested:

There isn't an equivalent of the 1:1 function, but it really is quite easy to work out what the scale should be. Post on the support forum (www.unikronsoftware.com/2dtoolkit/forum) and I'll be happy to help - it'll likely just get lost in this thread. You can work out exactly what the scale should be to be pixel perfect at a set distance.

So if you could assist and inform me how to go about setting a tilemap to be pixel perfect in perspective that would be great, thanks.