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Animated Tiles

AnimTilesDemo.png

Purpose

  • This demo illustrates how to control tiles from mouse clicks or from Unity UI buttons.

  • There are three scenes:

    • MouseClicks:
      • This scene uses a script called TpPickTile. Just click on the tiles themselves.
        • TpPickTile uses either input system to directly message tiles.
        • When you click the mouse it translates the pointer position into tilemap coordinates.
        • Then it uses TpLib to locate the tile.
        • If a tile is found it's ActivateAnimation method is used to toggle animation on/off.
    • MouseClicksDirect:
      • This is a better approach for most practical uses (but not UnityUi) where you want to message a tile when using a tile as an active element in your scene.
      • This scene uses a component called TpInputActionToTile.
      • It REQUIRES the New Input System.
      • It merely creates an instance of a TpActionToTile Scriptable Object.
      • That S.O. does much the same work as TpPickTile, and sends ActionToTile packets to the tile if it supports being sent that type of message.
        • Note that this S.O. supports Hover messages, which aren't used here.
        • See the TileUi demo for more advanced uses of this S.O. variety.
    • UnityUi:
      • This scene uses a component called TpGuidToAction.
      • The buttons each have their on-click events set to the 'Controller' GO with the TpGuidToAction.SendAction method as the target AND the GUID of the target tile as the parameter.
      • The GUID is easily available with Painter or the Tile+Brush, just view the tile in the Selection Inspector and click the eyedropper icon to copy the GUID to the clipboard.
      • It functions similarly to TpPickTile.
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