# Animated Tiles

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## 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.