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[Bug?] Maybe YZX swizzle and ZXY swizzle are exchanged wrongly, aren't they?

Discussion in '2D Experimental Preview' started by RyotaMurohoshi, Jan 6, 2017.

  1. RyotaMurohoshi

    RyotaMurohoshi

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    I have a question about Grid Component's Swizzle property.

    From Swizzle description at reference guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fGYUBPJrJknCsYbAl4z3cOP8x6kealwjZfa2DwcXSgA/edit

    > Swizzles the cell positions to other axii. For Example. In XZY mode, the Y and Z coordinates will be swapped, so an input Y coordinate will map to Z instead and vice versa.

    In my understanding,

    * XYZ swizzle means that tiles on XY plane with Z normal axis. Used with XY tilemap orientation.
    * YXZ swizzle means that tiles on YX plane with Z normal axis. Used with YX tilemap orientation.
    * XZY swizzle means that tiles on XY plane with Y normal axis. Used with XZ tilemap orientation.
    * ZYX swizzle means that tiles on ZY plane with X normal axis. Used with ZY tilemap orientation.

    But, unlike my expectation YZX swizzle and ZXY swizzle behaviours are

    * YZX swizzle setting, Grid plane is XZ plane with Y normal axis.
    * ZXY swizzle setting, Grid plane is ZY plane with X normal axis.

    Is my understanding wrong? Or Grid Component bug?
     
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  2. RyotaMurohoshi

    RyotaMurohoshi

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  3. MelvMay

    MelvMay

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    The Grid swizzle just means transposing the output from the layout (logical cell-space) to local-space. It has nothing to do with the TileMap as the Grid component isn't even aware of the TileMap's presence. I assume you already know this but it's very important to state.

    The Grid doesn't have planes either, even the Rect layout is 3D so it's effectively a Box volume layout however you can think of planes if you use Cell Position Z = 0 all the time so only using 2 axis.

    XYZ simply means no transposition is done so the output of the layout stays the same.

    YZX means that the X is output as the Z axis, Y is output in the X axis and Z is output in the Y axis. In other words, the Y is position in X, Z is positioned in Y and X is positioned in Z.

    A cell layout output of (10,20,0) with a swizzle of YZX will output (20,0,10)
     
    Last edited: Feb 12, 2017