TilePlus System User Guide
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User Guide Introduction
Features
TilePlus Toolkit (TPT) is a unique way to work with Unity Tilemaps. It’s a Unity extension that ...
Where to Get Started
If you’re not into coding and want to play with some feature demos, head over to the TilePlus Ext...
New Tiles!
New Tile Class? The key component of TPT is a new Tile base class cleverly dubbed “TilePlusBase” ...
Basic Architecture
Libraries TPT libraries are divided into Editor support and Runtime support, with separate assemb...
More Tiles!
You’ll also find some easy-to-use TPT tiles: TpAnimatedTile: similar to Unity’s AnimatedTile, but...
What Can I Do With It?
If all you were interested in was Tile+Painter, you’ll find it can do 90% of that the Unity Tilem...
Unboxing, Setup, and Reinstalling
What’s in the Box? Installing the TilePlus Toolkit UnityPackage will add a few folders to your As...
Menu Items
After installation, there’s a new “Tools/TilePlus” menu. Online Docs Tile+Painter Tile+Painter M...
ShortCuts
Two shortcuts are provided for your convenience: Hold down the ‘1’ key to allow painting over an...
Configuration
The Configuration Editor is used to customize TilePlus. These are saved on a per-project basis. ...
Tile+Brush
Custom brush for the Unity Tilemap Editor
Custom Inspectors
The Tile+Brush has enhanced Brush and Selection Inspectors. The default brush is replaced with th...
Selection Inspector for TilePlus tiles
Here’s an example of a Selection Inspector when displaying a TilePlus tile. This is used in Tile...
Selection Inspector Toolbar
The Selection Inspector for TilePlus tiles has a toolbar: Name Usage Focus Focus scene vi...
Tile+Brush's 'Brush Inspector'
This is the Brush Inspector seen when using the Tile+Brush with the Unity Tile Editor. It looks ...
Notes
To force the Tile+Brush or the Tile+Painter to NEVER paint on a Tilemap, attach the TpNoPaint Mon...
Moar Tiles
Sorry for that! TilePlus has a variety of new tiles for you to use or extend. Read about them in ...
Best Practices
Discussion about how to use this system
Workflow
You probably work with Tilemaps which are included in a scene rather than Tilemaps loaded from a ...
Tilemaps in Prefabs
To make a compatible prefab: Select a Grid with child Tilemaps or a single Tilemap, Make a Grid ...
Don't Use Prefabs for Tilemaps
You Probably Don’t Want Tilemap Prefabs They’re not really that useful except in limited circumst...
FAQ and Notes
FAQ and various notes