# Features

TilePlus Toolkit (TPT) is a unique way to work with Unity Tilemaps.  It’s a Unity extension that can change the way you think about Tilemaps and how you use them.

**REQUIRES UNITY 6 OR NEWER**

**Main Features:**

- New Tile class which allows private instance data on a per-tile basis.
- New Brush for the Unity Tilemap Editor which supports editing these tiles’ data.
- New Brushless Painting/Editing tool: Tile+Painter.

**Other Capabilities:**

- High-level ‘Tile Scene’ subsystem. 
- Archiving of single or multiple Tilemaps for fast loading and chunking.
- Fine-grained tile animation control including rewinding, looping and ping-pong looping. 
- Tiles can control the animator component of a spawned prefab.

- Runtime `Service Manager` for Scriptable Object plugins
  - You can easily add your own.
- Bundled Services
  - Customized Tweener for tile sprites, including limited GameObject support.
    - Tween the tile sprite’s transform position, rotation, scale, matrix, or color.
    - Tween GameObject position, rotation, scale, or color
    - Tween GameObject position along a Bezier curve.
    - Sequences are supported
    - Convert Tweens and Sequences into Awaitables.
    - Custom tweens: tween anything.
  - Pooled Prefab and Tile spawner.
  - Position Database: collider alternative.
  - Messaging Service:
    - Tiles can message other tiles or send events to Monobehaviours.
    - Monobehaviours or static classes can message tiles.
- Simple save/restore systems for tiles’ data.
- Built-in Zone creation for setting trigger zones.
- Layout System for top-down or side-scroll orthographic views.
- Internal late-update-based scheduler you can use for timers inside tile code or elsewhere.
- Assortment of utility methods for Tilemaps.
- Several pre-created Tiles for common uses
- Use Tiles as UI. 
  - Animated and static buttons
  - Ascii characters and strings (no editing)
  - Hover zones for tooltips.
  - Radio buttons
  - Toggle buttons
    
And importantly, there is no interference with your existing project. No special dependencies, no special GameObject tags, no changes in how Tilemaps work: just a lot of C# code – and the source is included.