Introduction To TilePlus Toolkit

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.

This document applies to Version 5.

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.
• 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.
• Chunking Layout System for top-down or side-scroll orthographic views.
• Pooled Prefab and Tile spawner.
• Dynamically loadable Runtime Services.
• Internal scheduler you can use for timers inside tile code or elsewhere.
• Customized Tweener for tile sprites.
• Tween the tile sprite’s transform, rotation, scale, matrix, or color. Sequence support included.
• 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.