[RELEASED] Super Tilemap Editor

No problem So I have to paint the tiles first in the tilemap, then select them, and then "Add Brush Selection". That works, might be a good idea to add that to the manual since it wasn't clear to me that it worked that way. But it works, thanks!!
Now if I would want to add tiles to an existing view do I have to paint the existing view in the tilemap, add the new tiles, then select and create a new view from that selection?
That seems a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Would it be an idea to make the selection in the Tile Palette and create a new view from there. And maybe also add functionallity to add new tiles to a view from within the Tile Palette?

 

Ok, so I guess you mean you want to use a different sound per tile (not per tilemap). In that case, you can use Tile Parameters to add an Object parameter to the tiles with the AudioClip you want to play. Instead of using colliders for this, you can use this method:

Code (CSharp):

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2. AudioClip audioClip = TilemapUtils.GetTileParameter<AudioClip>(tilemap, player.transform.position, "footSound");

I have attached a package update that will be included in the next update of STE including this new helper method.

 

You can also select the tiles from the tileset palette to create a view from that selection. But adding tiles functionality could be tricky to achieve. The idea is to save a rectangular selection as a view (from a tileset palette or from a tilemap).
If you want to speed up the process, you could reserve an area in the tileset atlas for some type of tiles, like terrain, and add the tiles on that area and make a view from the whole area.

 

Hi! I have 2 questions
1) Have I a method to get neighbours. Like Tile.GetNeighbours(); ?
2) I'm using the pathfinder (work perfect) but I need a idea how to resolve this issue. I have a NCP and he move around the map, I want the pathfinder detect and avoid the NCP. Maybe with a param in the tile and set blocked when he move, and the previous blocked false?

Thanks!

 

Hi there!
1) No, there is no method for that, but in RoadBrush you can see how to get the neighbour tiles.
2) You can use the physic raycasting to add other elements that blocks the player:

 

Hi, do you have any plans to add support for hexagon tile maps? Searched the thread but didn't find anything...

 

At the moment I have no plans to add support for hexagon tilemaps.

 

Hello! I'm adding a feature to my game where enemies can leave trails of slime and whatnot, and I'm planning to do this with a custom brush that checks all surrounding neighbour tiles (including diagonals) and places down the correct 'goop' tile accordingly. I'm currently using a modified '47 ' brush, and the idea is to update the tilemesh every frame and place goop down at (multiple) character positions, and I think I'll need to make modifications to my local STE copy to do this in a performant manner! I just wanted to check a few things to figure out what optimisations I'll need to make code-side -

* When I place a tile down with a brush, can I set it so it only checks it's neighbour tiles for modifications, rather than the whole map? Checking with the profiler at the moment, it seems that FillMeshData() is rebuilding the entire mesh and re-creating every single tile in the map, rather than only modifying the tiles that have been added or replaced or removed. Ideally it would be caching the existing data, and only changed the tiles modified by the Brush.

Would it be feasible to have a super-optimised UpdateMesh() function for doing realtime operations like this?

 

The Mesh is regenerated because empty tiles are not included in the process and also, subtiles could be used, with 4 small tiles per cell. Technically you could reuse the tiledata if the changes doesn't affect the mesh data (only if the tiles change the uvs but not if you add a tile, remove a tile or a tile is divided in subtiles)

 

I've been able to do a bit of editing to the TilemapChunk_Renderer.cs code and create an additional UpdateMesh() path that is about as optimised as I can think to make it! It really just took a bit of refactoring of the existing code and adding a new Array that tracks whether a tile is 'dirty' or not, and cleaning up some repeat memory allocation and checks that don't need to be there when making procedural meshes and making everything work with Arrays. A lot of the heavy lifting was done already

 

@CreativeSpore

Just started to use your asset, it's pretty awesome, thanks!

But I have a problem, can you please have a look?

I use free 2d art pack but still can't understand why i have this problem.

I think screens will talk for themselves.

 

There seems to be a bug with the way the collider mesh is generated, specifically in 2D Polygon Collider mode! If you set a tile's collision shape to Polygon, make it half height, and then tile it will some 'Full' collider-shaped tiles, the Polygon Collider mode interprets the shape in an incorrect way as you can see in the attached photo:

In 3D or Edge Collider mode the shape generates as you'd expect, although there is a weird blep there that might account for the Polygon Collider going wrong!


Sadly I want to be able to use the A* Pathfinding Project with this, so using Edge Colliders becomes difficult! Hopefully this is possible to fix.

 

Try using the CarpetBrush. You are using a Brush used for roads and it doesn't look the same because you forgot to add the holes in between the corner tiles.

 

Add this patch. It will be included in the next version and removes the optimization that merge the colliders so you can use polygon colliders with no issues at all.
The problem with polygon colliders is, they have to be closed areas and there are many situations were this could lead to ghost collider lines. Disabling the merging each tile will create it's own collider. Shouldn't be a big performance issue in most cases.
The patch is part of the new version of STE, so you could have some compilation issues. If that is the case, send me an email.

 

Thanks for the patch! I'm a bit wary of using it though, as it'll create thousands of polygon collider components for my maps which isn't very optimised at all

It does feel like there's a bug in the way the merged collider 'mesh' is generated though. For example, the middle blue section here does not get a polygon collider component added for it in the tile chunk object, but it does for the left and right sides:



It feels like that middle blue section should be a new Polygon Collider component, as in the Edge Collider version it creates three Edge Collider components with one in the middle:



I guess I could work around this by using the Pathfinding behaviour I just found bundled with this rather than A* Pathfinding Project, however

 

So I've hacked my TilemapChunk_Colliders.cs a bit to use the Clipper library (http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php) to merge the collider data together in to optimised collider components - it seems to fix my issues, but definitely something unique to my needs, haha. Maybe worth looking at the logic to combine the tiledata colliders, as I think it's something to do with the way the first and last points in a path link up:

 

Hi there!
I tried the same layout and it works fine on my side:

Even with different combinations of edge/polygon colliders with and without optimizations.
By the way, thank for telling me about the Clipper library. I looks really interesting.

About your issue, I guess it could be some modification you made or something missing in the patch I have in my updated version.
If you send me an email, I can send you the last updated version.

 

I have found a bug using polygon colliders that could be causing some issues:
Here you can see the fix:

Before removing the last vertex, it checks if it is equal to the first vertex.

 

hello I am working in a 2D pixel art project in Unity and I am using the super tile map editor to create the levels design, but this week we start to use the corgi engine, and and I want to use the feature of the engine that allow me to use the sprite mask to hide parts of the background that are not in the current room. but that doesn't work with the super tile map editor, is any config that I can do to allow me to use sprite mask with the super tilemap editor?

 

I have sent you an email with a patch including Sprite Masking feature.
It will be also included in the next update.

 

Hi! I don't know if this kind of error is about this asset. Thanks!!
Using last version of TileMapEditor and Unity 2019.3.5f1 (It happend in the editor some times (Frequent) and when I press play but the game work fine)

 

Can you enable full script log and post the full callstack to see the source of this error message?

 

I don't know if it related with Super Tile Map Editor :/ Thanks!

 

Thanks for the screenshot. I couldn't find anything related to this error.
Sometimes, Unity doesn't upgrades properly from a previous version. I don't know if it is related, but you could try to isolate the issue. For example, it could be a prefab (try to unpack repack) or a component (try to copy values and remove and add it again from clipboard)

 

Hello

Im very New with your Tool and have two main questions. At first... Is it possible to create a randombrush with animated tiles? And second.. I painted my map with a random brush. It looks very nice. But if i change one tile cause of optimations the whole map will randomized again. Thats not what i want. Is there a possibility to freeze the map and work on individuell tiles on this map?

Christoph

 

I have a bunch of tilemaps (various layers and about 80 maps) and the performance in the running game is fine, however, the Collider and Mesh rebuild when the level loads causes a hang for about 6 seconds for rebuild and GC.

Is there a way to (preferably) just cache the colliders and meshes inside the file (I know they're being built in the editor) rather than rebuilding them on Scene Load? As it is, if I turn off the OnEnable and Update rebuilds, the map just doesn't show up on play. I just want to build the meshes/colliders ahead of time and only update them if there's a change.

I also never want to rebuild the colliders since map collision is static for me.

I could write some code to spread the rebuild out across multiple frames, but that doesn't really solve the issue for me, it just hides it behind a (potentially quite long) loading screen.

 

To use animated tiles, add an animated brush to a random brush and enable this checkbox.



To avoid the tilemap to refresh the random brushes, you can also add this option or just avoid refreshing the tilemap.
The tilemap is refreshed when drawing outside the tilemap bounds, so you can set an initial bound and draw inside the bound to avoid that.

 

Technically, colliders are only updated if you are using 3D colliders, but you can remove these lines to make it persistent in detriment of scene size:
m_meshCollider.sharedMesh.hideFlags = HideFlags.DontSave

For the chunk tile mesh, you could enable the chunks manually when they are inside the camera view to avoid loading all at once or do the same as with the colliders, removing these lines:
m_meshFilter.sharedMesh.hideFlags = HideFlags.DontSave;

 

Hello

I know this, but i dont kwno how to do. if i create an new randow brush, i can choose the tiles on the tilepalette. if i choose at the bottom a animbrush, a "tile" is added, but it seems empty. if you want i can send you a video or something like that. i'm sure, i'm the problem.

thanks.

 

Can you send me a test project? Or an screenshot with the brush inspector?

 

Hi, Loving the Asset. thanks

However need a little guidance. I'm building a Rimworld type game and I've managed to write something that draws walls using a road brush at runtime. How would i go about scripting a tile preview, similar to in the editor that shows the currently selected tile before placing?

 

Hey, really enjoying how versatile STME is. I'm having one issue where I'm not sure how/where to place corner pieces for autotiling (the photo was done using Unity's tilemap system). Also, is there any documentation for Brush47? I think that's what I should be using, but I'm unsure of where to place tiles to get the desired result.

EDIT: Brush47 is the correct tile to use, just took a fair bit of trial and error. Would still like some documentation for it. Also going to post a YT tutorial on this specific brush as some may not realize how versatile this package is.

 

Hi, I am wondering does this tool support RPG Maker styles assets?

 

I'm glad you liked the asset.

About your question, check this code used to display a brush preview using a RawImage:

Code (CSharp):

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2. RawImage rawImage = uiBrush.targetGraphic as RawImage;
3. rawImage.texture = m_tileset.AtlasTexture;
4. rawImage.uvRect = brushContainer.BrushAsset.GetAnimUV();
5.  

 

Good to know you found the answer. You are right, there are many undocumented features that should be commented as well. The number of features is increased faster than documentation
But I will try to keep creating more tutorial videos for these features.
If you don't mind sharing your YT tutorial, that would be great as well.

 

There is no specific brush for them, but it would be easy to create one.
But you can support them using the CarpetBrush and AnimatedBrush.
An specific brush would be better if you want to create the brush directly from the atlas texture, selecting all the tiles.
If you want, you can also have a look to our other tool RPG Map Editor that supports specifically RPG Maker Tileset layout.

 

Hi!! Again here. I have a issue with the pathfinder, Why my path look like this. I try different modes, but it always find the path in this way. Thanks!

 

Did you tried to don't use any Heuristic?

It happens due optimizations in the Heuristic algorithm to find the path faster. For short distances, you can use None.

 

Hi! I have another question. I want to use random brush with animated tile. But when I add it only show the ID 0

How can I use it? Thanks in advance

 

Can you send me a test project or package with your tileset and resources? It couldn't reproduce it, maybe it was fixed with the last changes in the tool. In that case I could reply you back with a fix.

 

Hi, I'm using the STE to create a world that dynamically loads in chunks then destroys them as the player moves along. Currently, I'm creating bounds and filling/destroying chunks based on the player's position, but I'm wondering if I'm doing this the wrong way. Is there a better way to get the chunks in a radius around the player to fill tiles? Thanks.

 

I think that could be a good approach. I don't know the details, but you could take into account the default chunk size is 60x60, so if you use multiple of this size it could be more efficient.

There is no method to destroy a chunk directly, but it could be easy to achieve and it would increase also the performance when destroying chunks (instead of just erasing the chunk tiles). Let me knot if you need help with this.

Check this post with an example to generate a procedural world in real time. It could give you some ideas.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-super-tilemap-editor.387330/page-9#post-2876541

 

Thanks, I'll check it out. I'll send you a message if I get stumped.

 

Using unity 2019.4.0f1, you cannot select a tile from the tileset for RandomBrush:

 

Really thanks for your long time support
I'm working whith a function like HeatMap each grid have a num of heat.
the grid of i click whith mouse will change the num of heat.


I add a int paramater for one tile and put this tile on a rectangle area to get that goal.

I have a question for set Parameter.
i can get the tile's paramContainer and the parama belong a tile As the Docs write

but when i set the heat param, the whole grid's tile that i paint will change the heat at same tilme.
Is there any way only change one grid param and others keep the oringin param

 

I have attached a patch here. Let me know if you find any other issue.

 

I am afraid it is not possible. The tile parameters are shared by all the tiles of the same type.
But you can use the component TileObjectBehaviour to create the tile instantiated as a gameObject.
Just attach this component to a gameObject, create a prefab from it and attach it to any tile you want to be instantiated.

 

It worked!

Thanks!

 

Hello!
There is added new feature with LWRP: now we can add secondary textures to sprites (normal map and mask). I try to add normal map to atlas sprite as secondary texture, but normal map didn't work =(
All other objects in scene works propertly.
Any workaround or may be adding support for secondary textures for 2d lighting in future versions?

 

Are you using the same material in the Tilemap? Is it using the Sprites/Default material or another special material?