Animated Tiles

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.