Official Tilemap Extras preview package is now available

At last! I've been using it for months, it's a collection of great tools.

 

That's good news, but why is it still marked as preview? I don't see anything holding this back from a full release, and I actually think that all of these should come included with Tilemap directly.

 

Hi, I have a problem with my camera. I cant see my scene. can you help me ?

 

The z-position is set to 0, so it's on the same plane as the tilemap. Pull it back to -10 or so.

 

Any good way to make rule tiles interact with other tiles in a good way?

Here's two 3x3 rule tile squares next to each other:



In the game, we don't want that kind of edges when we go from one tileset to the next one. We'd either want to do this (which I now made with normal tiles):



Or, preferably, to be able to set up rule tiles for how the edge between two rule tilesets work.


We could of course extend the rule tiles on our own to add support for this kind of stuff, or buy an asset, but I'm wondering if this is the kind of thing that's on the roadmap to be added.

 

I think Sprite Shape does a lot of similar things to what you're asking Baste, but yes i would love a slightly simpler way of merging tiles rather than creating 16 variations for each (and sometimes more)

 

Is there a way to reuse the rules for other rule tiles?

Assuming we have multiple tilesheets that are laid out and sliced the same, the sprites would be named with the same schema (name_0, name_1,... name-n) so my first idea was to create a copy of the first rule tile that I created and just find and replace the "name" part for the new sprites. Unfortunately, it doesn't use simple names (for obvious good reasons).

I really appreciate the rule tile system, and it's one of the better ones in a lot of ways, but it isn't scalable in this one area. The way the rules are created, and the fact that those rules don't appear to be reusable components makes it a tedious process to setup. My tilesheet isn't the simplest, but it isn't the most complex by far. I have 33 tilesheets with 47 sprites/tiles each. To get everything setup, I would have to create 33 auto tile assets and then individually setup 1,551 rules. And that is just for the ground tiles, with no animations or random tiles.

Edit: I just noticed that we can copy and paste rules. That's a huge help.

Ultimately, it would be great if the rules could be a component that we add to a texture. The component could define the regions (tiles), and the auto-tiling rules. That would allow those components to be reused across tilesheets with the same layout. It would also make it easier to code the option to have different tiles autotile together, I would imagine.

Just my opinions, having never written a single line of Unity extension code, so for what it's worth.

 

Hi!

We've been using version 1.1.0 of Tilemap Extras from the github repo since forever. Trying to update to the latest version (1.6.2 for 2020.1) breaks all of our RuleOverrideTiles - they become invisible. It seems like some extra data was added to the class (in particular, an extra copy of the original tile), and if that data isn't there, all methods just return nothing.

Is this a known issue? Got any hint about how to fix it? We didn't really want to update, but I want to know if updating fixes some of our override tiles doing this:

 

We want all of our edge-tiles to have an negative collider offset. Doing this manually is a lot of work, and without guides or a field to insert numeric values leads to a tons of un-aligned colliders. Am I missing a workflow or tool? Or is this perhaps something to add to this package?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497872424281440267/784854549302345779/coll.mp4

 

Hello, I have a problem with Hexagonal Rule Tiles.
Unity version 2019.4.15f1, I downloaded 2D Tilemap Extras from Package Manager and I have 1.5.1-preview version.



Grid's Cell Swizzle XYZ (default value from flat top menu selection)
Tilemap's Orientation XY (default value)
Specific Hexagonal Rule Tile flat top checked (it's hidden in the screen but it's checked)
I want to make cells with thick borders, like civ games, but the rules invert sprites vertically.



I could manually mirror the rules, but it's an annoying bug I want to solve.

 

Adding buttons for more advanced functions such as rotate / flip / mirror tiles in the tile palette would be nice. All the actions you have at your disposal should be easily found and used from that window.

 

This?

 

Case 1299285!

 

I'd like to suggest a new kind of override tile. It would basically be a copy of another tile with the same collider, but you can swap out the sprite.

I'm constantly facing the problem that I want to re-use colliders I've set up in the Sprite editor. So I have to open the editor, copy the custom physics shape for every single tile and paste it again. Just take these 8 simple sprites:


I need to copy every tile manually. It's extremely annoying and wastes so much time. I wish I could just select all of the tiles and copy them over all at once. But I guess that would mean an overhaul of the entire Sprite Editor. So my suggestion is a "Sprite Override Tile".

You'd select a tile as the base and then just swap out the sprite, but without using the new sprite's collider. So nothing would change but the actual graphic. This would make it so much easier to set up your colliders once and then just re-use them over and over again for similar sets of tiles.

 

This is really helpful and I got some Tilemap Extras preview package on the github repo yesterday.

 

is it helpful? https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/2d-extras/pull/94

 

Hi!

Did you get a chance to look at it? Any chance there's a workaround we can do on our side?

 

Hi there,
I'm unable to add this package, is it not available for 2020.2?

Thanks for any help!

Edit: Figured it out, I had the github package installed on version 1.40, I had to remove this in order to install the preview package.

 

It's not available in 2021.1.0b4.

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Thank you for that!

It seems that your package is not automatically added to each version of Unity; it's not available in 2019.4.19f1 either...

I'm still using the zip you put on Git hub.

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Are there any plans for inserting/duplicating a rule element? Having to drag new rules up to the top of the list can get a bit tedious with longer lists

 

Is there any way to put custom data on painted tiles?

Could these methods be a solution? GridInformation.Set(Get)PositionProperty ...

 

You could subclass the tile kind you're interested in and put your data there.

 

Sorry but what I meant was individual information that doesn't share data between the same tiles.
https://answers.unity.com/questions...nity-2017-h.html?page=1&pageSize=5&sort=votes

 

Right! Sorry, I was too fast there.

Do you want to do this as you're painting? Ie. copy some data template from the tile to instances of that data in the grid?

You could subscribe to Tilemap.tilemapTileChanged, and then use the info you get there to write into your own virtual grid.

 

Hello, we're on Unity 2020.2.3, and the package shows up by default as version 1.6.3, but even after using "+" for git URL and adding "com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras" it is still at that version.

Are there going to be breaking changes / deprecations if we begin with 1.6.3 and upgrade later? Is there some other way to force it to find the 2.0.0 version? Thanks!



EDIT: omg I just noticed you said "2021.x" -- I'm so used to seeing 2020.x. Don't mind me, just being dense...
I'm still curious about the question on deprecation as we'd likely upgrade in the future.

 

Tried to find answers on this, but didn't find too much so thought I could ask here.

Is it possible to (with the the Tilemap Extra) use the autotile when calling Tilemap.SetTile during runtime (via code)?
Thanks in advance!

 

For anyone else wondering this, I tried around myself and found you can indeed use the autotile via code!
Here's a good tutorial on how to set up autotiling. When you've done so, you can simply call it at runtime like so:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class TestSetTile : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public Tilemap tilemap;
4.     public RuleTile ruleTile;
5.  
6.     private void Start()
7.     {
8.         tilemap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(0, 0, 0), ruleTile);
9.         tilemap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(1, 1, 0), ruleTile);
10.     }
11. }

Thank you for adding this package into Unity! What an absolutely fantastic tool

 

Nice Package !

 

I agree, nice package!

 

I think the link broke some time between now and when you posted it, its giving me a 404 error

 

Where do I find the changelog for version 2.0?