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Hello! I need to add a field containing an I.D. number to my IsometricRuleTiles.

I was wondering if I should inherit from

IsometricRuleTile<T>

, , or if I should effectively redefine my own

IsometricRuleTile<T>

and just copy the contents of that class into my own (which is this):

Code (CSharp):

1. public IsometricRuleTile();
2.  
3. public sealed override Type m_NeighborType { get; }

and then just inherit from

IsometricRuleTile

and just add in my ID field there. I am confused by what I should inherit from to define my own tile, not for custom rules, but just for a little extra data sprinkled in (I need to network and 'save to disk' my tiles, hence the ID number).

Second question: Can you not use

[SerializeField]

? The field doesn't appear in the inspector, only public fields do. This is not ideal because it makes exposing interface variables more difficult

 

Aaah ok, for clarification in your investigation, it definitely does not expose the variable on my setup, which is:

Unity 2020.3.1f1
2D Tilemap Extras 1.6.4-preview

using the following syntax:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class RedstoneBaseTile : IsometricRuleTile, IHaveUniqueID
2. {
3.     public uint UniqueID { get => _uniqueID; }
4.     [SerializeField] private uint _uniqueID = 1;
5.  
6.  
7. #if UNITY_EDITOR
8.     [ContextMenu("Generate New ID from database")]
9.     public void GetNewGUID()
10.     {
11.         _uniqueID = DatabaseTile.Instance.GetNewID();
12.         UnityEditor.EditorUtility.SetDirty(this);
13.     }
14. #endif
15. }

 

That's amazing! It certainly does, thank you for the lightning fast help + fix

 

There is one more bug that I found in regards to IsometricRuleTiles.
The MirrorX function still operates on the Cartesian aspect of the, 'inspector rule setter'
Example,

I would expect the following to mirror the rule to look like this:
Original:
Mirrored:

But what happens is this:
As in, it is mirroring this coordinate system as if it is still cartesian (the "upper left" direction being the "top")
I'm not worried about the other Mirror functions because they don't play nice with how Isometric tiles have to be sliced, but a MirrorX would be nice

 

Is there a way to use the random brush to paint a multi-tile pattern where each tile in the pattern is randomized from a set?

For example, say I have the below tiles:

AB CD EF

I want to paint a 2x2 pattern of the form XY, where X is a random tile selected from A, C, E and Y is a random tile selected from B, D, F.

 

Also, is this a bug or a feature? Tiles painted onto the tilemap always face up, regardless of their rotated orientation in the palette. Rotating with [ ].

 

Thanks! I will tweak it accordingly.

 

Unity Version: 2021.1.0f1

I played with it more this morning and determined that it is a bug with a specific grid.

If I add a new tilemap to the same grid, that tilemap also has this problem.

If I create a new grid (hierarchy right click, 2d object, tilemap, rectangular) in the same scene, the new tilemap object does not have this problem. Both grids were created with default settings. Perhaps the original got corrupted in my messing around with tilemaps and pivots.

I cannot reproduce it in a new grid / tilemap / scene / project.

I submitted the bug (case 1326880) with the project files needed to reproduce it through the bug reporting system for the record, but not a huge issue given it is so hard to reproduce.

 

Thanks! I was wondering why I couldn't see 2D Tilemap Extras in the package manager in 2020.3.3f1...

 

Would it be possible to add some kind of "comments" to the tilemaps? I'm using rule tiles extensively, and I'm at a point where I can't really tell which tile is which without a reference sheet. It would really help if I could add text to the tilemap, or tooltips for individual ruletiles.

Also, I think the rule tile override UI is broken. On the left is the original and on the right the override:

 

Oh, this is for visualization in the Scene View, right? I meant that I'd like comments in the Tile Palette. I've made an example of something that would help me a lot:



1. I think a tooltip would be the most helpful solution - when hovering over a tile a tooltip with the tile name could appear. As you can see in the Inspector it's called "Square Blue". Now imagine I have a lot of different rule tiles that look similar. This would make it much easier to verify which tile I'm about to select.

2. I could also imagine showing the tile name on the bottom of tile palette (so that the information from 2. in the Inspector could also be shown at 2. in the tile palette). Maybe it would also make sense to put this at the top under "Active Tilemap", as I think the actively selected tile is a pretty important piece of information that should be visible somewhere in the palette itself.

I'm using 2021.1.3f1 and the newest version of the tilemap packages (extras 2.0.0). I just noticed the problem extends to normal rule tiles as well. For some reason the sprites are shown way too large: