2D Toolkit - 2D in Unity made simple [RELEASED]

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http://2dtoolkit.com/forum/index.php/topic,3533.html
Data driven sprite collections, advanced collider shapes.

 

Hey, me again.

Can a material be used to replace an image on the Tile Map? For example, you can chop down bushes. Or open doors.

Or is it better to use sprites? I saw a tutorial that turned tiles into sprites using prefabs I think it was.

 

Its easier to use sprites that are turned into prefabs, then attach any behaviour you like to the prefab.

 

Hey all, Just running into an issue with playmaker and 2DTK if anyone can assist.

Essentially I'm trying to make my 2D Sprite jump, I've attached a 2D Rigid Body have made an FSM in Play Maker to add force
to the sprite when a button is pushed.

The issue is that there is an error saying that you can only add force to something with a rigid body, it's not detecting the 2D rigid body so what would be the alternative?

 

Have you tried this?
https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/?W1150

 

hi Unikron,

I'm using the bounds returned by the box collider in an animated sprite to do some collision stuff.
However, I've noticed that tk2dSpriteAnimator updates the box collider bounds on LateUpdate().

Because my script needs the updated collision bounds to work properly, it needs to run after tk2dSpriteAnimator, which means moving a bunch of my scripts to run during LateUpdate.

My question is, is there a particular reason for tk2dSpriteAnimator to run during LateUpdate()?

I've modififed tk2dSpriteAnimator to make it run during Update() and it seems to work just fine.

I don't know why you put it in LateUpdate but if it turns out that tk2dSpriteAnimator doesn't need to run during LateUpdate, you might want to consider moving it back to Update() at some point. Just saying.

Thanks.
Nacho.

 

So this may be a Noob Question, But I am importing someone else's sprite sheets and for the most part it is smooth going. But occasional I see a frame that needs to be shifted a few pixels. Is there an easy way to do this in 2D Toolkit?

 

Its in LateUpdate to handle the cases where you change an animation during Update and expect it to change by the end of the frame, eg. when triggered by a collision. Its just convention I guess, you can pick anything you like here. It would be impossible to change behaviour of something like this due to backwards compatibility - it would change all existing projects in subtle ways, but thankfully its a small change that is easily maintained if you wish, you can also inherit from the class like tk2dUISpriteAnimator does (also be sure to make an equivalent tk2dUISpriteAnimatorEditor) - this will survive upgrades too.

 

No there isn't, we've never really needed that. If you fancy modifying the tk2d code, it should be fairly trivial to add - feel free to post on the tk2d forum if you'd like some help with that. Having said that there have been a few requests for this very thing recently - I'm considering putting it in as a feature.

 

It comes in handy. For example I was importing Butterflies. Their movement is erratic, so tweaking becomes necessary.

 

thanks, didn't think about inheriting from spriteanimator, really good idea.
nacho.

 

not sure if this helps but sometimes I have to adjust the custom anchor point in the 2d sprite collection per each affected sprite to get them to line up correctly in sprite animation clip especially if animated object in the sprtie changes size positions from frame to frame

Posted: 03:01 PM 1 Week Ago
Quote Originally Posted by SoloChristian View Post
So this may be a Noob Question, But I am importing someone else's sprite sheets and for the most part it is smooth going. But occasional I see a frame that needs to be shifted a few pixels. Is there an easy way to do this in 2D Toolkit?

 

Is there a demo for this at all? We'd mostly be using it for the attach point functionality. We have trialed SpriteFactory which allows us to do what we need to via locators. We looked at this http://www.unikronsoftware.com/2dtoolkit/docs/2.10/reference/sprite_attach_point.html however its doesn't give the greatest indication of usability.

 

No there isn't a demo as its distributed as full source code. Email support at unikronsoftware.com and I'll see what can be done.

 

Cheers for the reply. We have actually grabbed a license and it seems to do everything we want it to so far

 

I keep on getting the following errors when importing the toolkit:
Assets/TK2DROOT/tk2dUI/Code/Controls/tk2dUIDropDownMenu.cs(60,25): error CS0433: The imported type `System.Action' is defined multiple times
Assets/TK2DROOT/tk2d/Code/Sprites/tk2dSpriteAnimator.cs(105,23): error CS0433: The imported type `System.Action`3' is defined multiple times
Assets/TK2DROOT/tk2dUI/Code/Controls/tk2dUIDropDownMenu.cs(60,25): error CS0433: The imported type `System.Action' is defined multiple times

Have you got any idea what could be causing this? To me it looks like a conflict with some other plugin which is pretty much the normal run of things with Unity. I was wondering whether you have any clue what type of plugin it is conflicting with? Assuming you haven't seen this before and know what has to be done. Is it likely to be conflicting with a GUI system such as NGUI?

 

Does anyone know if its possible to turn of the crosshair/grid markers in the animation window? Trying to record animations from there is a bummer when theres the crosshairs lurking behind.

 

System.Action is a standard .net library class. What other plugins have you got in the project?

 

Awesome! Thanks for getting it. If you run into any issues / have any specific questions - we have a dedicated support forum here.
http://2dtoolkit.com/forum/index.php

 

tk2dSpriteAnimationPreview
The axis grid draw should be pretty obvious in there. Just delete the ones you don't want

 

I guess this is where to drop feature requests.
As an animator, it would be great if you could add a few more of the TK2d component features to the animation window. The big ones I'd like to see are "order in layer", "sprite" and maybe even "collection". Not sure if these have already been requested or are on your radar already but these would be fantastic additions.

 

I managed to solve the issue. Thanks.

 

Which animation window is this? Its probably better to ask for feature requests on the official forum so it doesn't get lost in the thread (www.2dtoolkit.com/forum)

 

The "animation window" in question I guess is better described as Unity's animation 'Panel', my mistake. Pretty much I was hoping to get those options added to the "Add Curve" dropdown in that panel. I know sprites can be swapped via code, but that isn't helpful during the animation process. The "order in layer" property would be fantastic since layering on the z-axis will screw up once you flip the character (for example).
Anyway, I'll compile all of this over in your forum once I figure out which subforum best suits a feature request.

 

I should mention that its not really possible to add a great deal to the unity animation window. You can't animate c# properties yet, and that really limits what you can do there.

 

I can not go to website http://www.unikronsoftware.com/ ?

 

Are you from Vietnam by any chance? I've heard a few reports that the website is blocked inside Vietnam, no idea why or how to fix it though. It apparently works if you use a US proxy. Let me know and I'll investigate further.

 

Hi, i bought ur plugin and used for couple month, today i notice that some time when i call Resources.Load to load tk2d prefab, it will drop my framerate down, so i do a simple test, and use profiler to check, i see somethings wrong when unity load tk2d prefab(No texture assign to prefab, only sprite collection), plz see screen shoot, it take too much time to instantiate a simple prefab. plz double check it again (my guess is i have a lot of sprite collection)

 

The textures are linked in the sprite collection. If your atlases are large it WILL get loaded in. When Resources.Loading a prefab you'll be instantiating all dependent data - if you link to 5 sprite collections in your animation which is linked to your prefab, all of them will get loaded in turn, and they contain references to textures and materials internally. I don't know how big your data is so I can't really give you any specific advice here.

 

Hey guys, love your code.

Can I ask you to make a small change? Right now you support multi-channel packed fonts imported from BmFont, but the code that manages the material doesn't put in the right shader.

Could you please change the following code in your next release:

tk2dFontEditor.cs: The GetShader function is currently:

Code (csharp):

1.     public Shader GetShader(bool gradient)
2.     {
3.         if (gradient) return Shader.Find("tk2d/Blend2TexVertexColor");
4.         else return Shader.Find("tk2d/BlendVertexColor");
5.     }
6.  

but should be:

Code (csharp):

1.     public Shader GetShader(bool gradient, bool packedFont = false)
2.     {
3.         if (packedFont)
4.             return Shader.Find("tk2d/Goodies/PackedTextMesh");
5.         else if (gradient)
6.             return Shader.Find("tk2d/Blend2TexVertexColor");
7.         else
8.             return Shader.Find("tk2d/BlendVertexColor");
9.     }
10.  

The function is called in two places in that same file. The first is when no material is assiged to the font.

it is currently (around line 85):

Code (csharp):

1.     gen.material = new Material(GetShader(gen.gradientTexture != null));

but should now be:

Code (csharp):

1.     gen.material = new Material(GetShader(gen.gradientTexture != null, gen.data != null  gen.data.isPacked));

The second call is when there is already a material, it checks make sure it's got the right one. That line is currently (around line 110):

Code (csharp):

1.     Shader s = GetShader(gen.gradientTexture != null);

but should now be:

Code (csharp):

1.     Shader s = GetShader(gen.gradientTexture != null, gen.data.isPacked);

This would solve a lot of headaches when trying to use multi-channel fonts.

Thanks a lot!

 

Hey thanks for the contrib - I'll add it to the next release.
That feature never got any more love as it was an experimental feature and I didn't know of anyone that used it. Glad to hear someones actually using it

 

Hello! I've just discovered that tk2d is causing a weird error when on on Windows 8 (Windows Store Apps, but I tried web player and same thing)




Right, I've just yesterday installed Windows 8.1 and the latest Unity 4.3.4f1

I am trying to build a game that was previously published for the Mac (Standalone) - however, when I downloaded my project via the asset server I get this error:

Code (csharp):

1. Internal compiler error. See the console log for more information. output was:

There is no message after that. I opened the editor log and there it says:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  
3. - Finished compile Library/ScriptAssemblies/Assembly-CSharp.dll
4. Internal compiler error. See the console log for more information. output was:
5.  
6. (Filename:  Line: 0)

Double clicking the error doesn't do anything either


I discovered it was tk2d by randomly deleting folders out of desperation - deleting tk2d made the error go away.
To confirm, I've created a new project and added tk2d (tk2d.18.09.v2.2final) and the error appeared

is this fixed in the new tk2d? should I update it? thanks in advance!

 

You should probably update and test the latest version.

 

Okey, I've created a new empty project and imported the latest 2d toolkit from the asset store( 2d toolkit 2.3.3),
still getting the same error as above- using Unity3D 4.3.4f1 (30 day pro trial license), Windows 8.1
The error occurs for all platforms that I've tested (standalone, web player, Windows store apps)

 

You're getting the internal compiler error on WebPlayer and standalone?

 

yes - it appears in all the platforms that I've tried: standalone, web player, Windows store apps
I think the issue has more to do with the use Windows8/Unity3d version than a specific platform
Unity3D 4.3.4f1 (30 day pro trial license), Windows 8.1

This same issue does NOT appear in Win7, OSX
(those systems have slightly older Unity3d versions - OSX has Unity3D 4.3.1 - don't know if this matters)

 

Its not related to this is it?
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/206070-New-Win-8-1-machine-with-VS-2013-gt-Errors

Is there any further info in the log?

Edit: or this
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/318216/internal-compiler-error-1.html

 

That is a build error - yes, I got that initially but then also installed Windows SDK 8.0 , VS2013 - the error I'm getting is in the editor (says I can't enter playmode before the errors are fixed)

I do not know since the error string is "" - I will try disabling all antiviruses and let you know the results

EDIT: Okay, disabling my anti virus and firewall fixed this issue. This is way weird that a firewall/antivirus will specifically choose to dislike 2D toolkit (I was using Avira Antivirus, Comodo firewall- not sure which one caused it but I think Avira).Thanks for your quick help!!

2d toolkit rulez, no matter what the antiviruses say!

 

Glad you've got it figured out

 

Can the toolkit still be used with 3.5.7? If so do I need to set certain things up for it to work or can it just be imported as normal?

 

It still works with 3.5.7

 

2D Toolkit 2.4 has been released with greatly improved in editor memory management with PNG textures, a new advanced collider tools and many more fixes and improvements.

Grab it here http://2dtoolkit.com/forum/index.php/topic,3810.0.html
or update on the asset store.

 

Quick tilemap question.

Is there an easy way to copy tilemap sections consisting of multiple layers at once? Especially between scenes? The layer-by-layer approach is too slow for me.


Thank you!

 

My problem is I have many layers. They are as follows:
Walk: Z -0.5, no collide
Walk 2: Z -0.4, no collide
Walk 3: Z -0.3, no collide
Collide: Z -0.2, collide
Collide 2: Z -0.1, collide
Hover: Z 0.8, no collide
Hover 2: Z 0.9, no collide

The reason I have so many layers is this:
I needed a set of tiles that the player is in front of that don't collide (Walk). I needed a set of collide tiles (Collide). And I needed a set of hover tiles, that are in front of the player and also in front of tiles behind it but don't collide.

The reason for the multiple mini-layers, for example Walk, Walk 2, and Walk 3, is to get things dynamic. I'll have a grass tile in Walk. Then a dirt path tile in Walk 2. Then an open door in Walk 3 that allows the player to enter a house. All encompassing the same tile.

It's a Zelda-esque top-down view game. A typical house in the game will use all 7 of those layers in various areas of the outside of the house. Which makes it a bit of a pain to duplicate said house.


Thank you.

 

Hello,

The tile map UI doesn't support multi layer cut and paste, but it does internally. There were various reasons we didn't enable it, but it can in theory be enabled. tk2dTileMapSceneGui.cs, PickUpBrush is called twice - there is a parameter allLayers that will grab all layers. I believe when we had it working we only supported cutting and pasting when on the lowest layer. If you run into any further issues post on the tk2d forum - at least the discussion will be properly threaded there. (http://2dtoolkit.com/forum/index.php)

 

Thanks Unikron!

Anyway, this next issue has been bugging me for two days now.

Alright, I cave. I cannot figure out why my sprite isn't lighting up in Game mode in Unity with the 2D Toolkit, only in Editor mode.

Things look fine in the Editor. I can even move the point light left and right and see accurate results. It's a Tk2dSpriteAnimator.


The shader on the material for the main character.


Sprite Collection seems fine.


Normals seem fine (camera is down the Z axis at -10).


The point light itself seems fine.


And yet, in Game mode (also when I build and run), no light... (in next post)


The only light that seems to work is Directional light. Spotlight or point lights do nothing. I've spent days on this and got nowhere. Any ideas?

 

I started a new scene from scratch.



Same problem?

Thought about it some more, then switched out the camera from the 2D Toolkit one for the standard one.



And that fixed it. Any idea why the Td2k camera wasn't allowing the lights?


Thank you

 

Hi,

This is due to a bug in Unity.
http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/iss...custom-projection-matrix-is-set-on-the-camera
That bug in particular was fixed in Unity 4.1.2, then broken again in 4.3. I've reported it again, but I don't know when it'll get fixed
http://2dtoolkit.com/forum/index.php/topic,2015.msg10035.html#msg10035

 

Hello, I'm having blurry text as soon as I switch platform to IOS, both in Unity3d editor and on iphone device the text is blurry. This is not the case on Android, is there something to do about it?

I'm using 2d toolkit 2.4 and newest Unity3d

Thanks