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Articles about the TilePlus Toolkit for Unity3D
For the last few years I've been working on a framework for casual games using the Unity game engine. Using native Unity Tilemaps is efficient, but very limiting. This is because they're designed for display efficiency but there's no apparent way to ...
In an earlier post I mentioned that it is possible to have instanced Tile data when using Unity Tilemaps. It's been a while, but now that I've uploaded the TilePlus Toolkit asset to the Unity Asset store, it's a good time for me to STOP CODING and ta...
The concept of cloning a tile to divorce it from the asset and enable instance data isn't that hard to understand. But say that you want to edit the data: you use your trusty selection inspector to click on one of your new-fangled tiles and .... no g...
There are several problems with relying on the Brush's Selection inspector to examine tiles: often it's just not that easy to locate which tile you wish to examine. This is especially an issue for TilePlus tiles because they can be invisible (if you ...
The previous post discussed a few of the simpler tiles contained in the TilePlus Toolkit asset. There are several special tiles that provide much more complex functionality but require integration into whatever control code your project is using. But...
TpLib has general-purpose messaging and Event functionality. Messages get sent to tiles, and tiles can post events. Messages can be sent to tiles; for example, to notify a tile of the player’s position. Tiles can send events to subscribers of a .net...
