Coming soon - UniTile3D

Hi all,

Some of you may know my 2D level editor, UniTile. Today I'm announcing it's sister - UniTile3D.



I'm not going to reveal too much about how it works yet, but I can tell you that it's very customizable, easy to use, and that I spent a great amount of time making sure that the generated maps are highly optimized (both for rendering and for physics).
It will also include a simple pathfinding library - but it's possible that that won't be included in the first release.

By the end of the week, I will be needing some testers. Any volunteers? EDIT : I no longer need any more testers.


Some of the assets used in this screenshot were purchased on the asset store, and will not be included in the product. They're just there for niceness.


New : A video of me making a quick map.

 

This looks really good! If you want me to test id be happy to. Looks very interesting and could come in handy for some quick prototyping!

 

Looks great

 

prototyping a game at the moment that this would be perfect for! Would love to test.

 

Awesome!

I will be happy to test in my RTS game!

 

Thanks guys. I will send PM's when it's ready to be tested.

While it can certainly be used for prototyping, I'd like to believe that it would be useful for actual games as well. You probably won't make AAA first person shooters with it (unless you have some really amazing tiles), but for some types of games (RPG, RTS, Turn Based Strategy, etc) it would be ideal - especially for but not limited to mobile platforms

 

I'd be happy to test also.

Cheers

Zakk

 

I'll be happy to test, could help in my upcoming game.

 

Pretty noob in Unity3D, but would be happy to have a test.

 

I'd be happy to test also.

sefou

 

I would be happy to test as well.

 

Yes these looks good and it's needed

 

Definitely. Was not putting you solution down, just feel that this will be a great tool to test out new ideas quickly, and if they work, then you already have a viable solution It looks like a great package and cant wait to see what its capable of.

 

I now have enough testers. Thanks for the interest!

I know you weren't putting it down - I just wanted to clarify some things

 

I'd love to test this! I have Unity Pro and iOS devices.

 

Looking so good, I'd love to test this for my game either, the style fits very well

 

I'd love to test this too.

i want to make rts use this.

 

I'd love to test too

 

I'd like to give it a test. I've been working on some procedural generators for tile based maps (platformer and roguelike). Currently using Tidy Tile Mapper but was thinking on making factories for a couple different tile based solutions. In the early part of the generator, right now it makes procedural platform levels.
http://arcanearcade.com/Demo/ArcaneMazeDemo/

The levels are built around a maze but then customized to look less like one. Using a maze so doors and locks can be added to encourage exploration and create goals. Still really early in development... need to seal the top of that platformer for example, create the top down generator, add the doors/keys, biome generation, etc.

 

I also would be happy to test it.

 

hello, i am curious in how tidy tile manager save the map data.

 

Right now I'm procedurally generating the levels at runtime (hit generate for new mazes). My plan is to make an edit time generator that will create a normal Tidy Tile Mapper map so you can edit the result and save it as normal. At edit time TTM creates a bunch of map chunks with blocks and attached scripts. You can choose to publish the map as a prefab with a few options - keep all the map chunks and scripts, remove all the empty space but keep the scripts attached to blocks, or just publish the blocks (a few more details than all that but that should be a decent summary).

I talked to Mudloop and will be making a renderer for my generator for UniTile and UniTile3d. I'll put my generator up in the asset store with renderers for all the tile based apis that I get permission for (it will not include the tile API, just samples for those that have them). I'll also make simple geomorph tile and/or a barebones block that can be used without other toolkits. I'll make an asset store announcement as I get closer.

 

Just wanted to show something - BoxCollider optimization.



To each tile, you just assign BoxColliders as needed. When the tiles are instantiated, it looks like the image on the left (every tile has one or more BoxColliders). Press "Optimize Map", and it will join adjacent BoxColliders in the map together (as long as their rotation is 0, 90, 180 or 270), as seen on the right.

The same button will also batch tiles together, even when they have different materials, thanks to the included texture atlas generator.

 

Here's a video where I make a small map in under 2 minutes :

I plan to add some other features that would make it even easier.

 

As a huge fan of UniTile, this is great to see! Will there be an easy way to have sloped sections (just 45º or maybe 22.5º)? I remember having to code my own handler for that in UniTile and that was a slightly difficult experience.

Edit: Whoops, just noticed that you do that in the first video! I'm dumb!

 

In UniTile3D, you just add BoxColliders (or other colliders for that matter) to the tile prefabs. The editor will combine them whenever possible, but rotated colliders won't be batched.

 

Looking great! Definitely looks easy to use and has nice results. I think this is a really awesome system you got going here, can't wait to see what else you come up with. Keep up the good work.

-Dane

 

unitile in 3d? nice!!!

 

How does it look when two different materials collide? I'd love to see grass on a plane, and then raised one square of grass, and next to it one block of anything else.

 

I don't mean to be a bother but this is still being developed, right? I mostly ask because it's been a few weeks since Mudloop has posted on the forums at all.

 

Yes, I was just talking with Mudloop yesterday. I've got an early copy to work with for my procedural generator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP6V_t_qyXI

UniTile3D starts at about 5:50

Still working on some of the tile providers I'm using... not converting the low level map data to the tile provider properly yet.

 

How can you make it just one object? This would be perfect for a project I abandoned some time ago because of low performance on mobile devices. Please teach us master!!!

 

When it's expected to release UniTile3D?
How much it will cost?
Thanks

 

Good job . Stuff like that keeps the value of the asset store, which usually only contains crap, to be honest. But some assets just stand out of the crowd

 

Oh wow this looks amazing. I'd love to have a chance to work with it. This looks exactly like something I need for a project I've been tinkering with!

 

How did I not see this. Would have tested it.
Ready yet?

 

I not only want to test it, but I want to buy it, NOW!

So... if I buy it now can I test it now? hehe

What is the expected release date and price?

 

This could be perfect for our current game! I would love to get my hands on this.

 

So excited for this. I am loving UniTile and this has really got me drooling.

 

@mudloop
Can I know please when it will be released?

Thanks

 

Any new info or possible release dates on this? I am extremely excited to get my hands on it. It would fit soooo well in my current project.

 

Ditto. I will pick this up as soon as it hits the store.

My only question at the moment: Can I import and use my own mesh tiles?

Thanks!

 

I'm also curiously awaiting this.

 

I wonder how big maps can be created for mobile devices, like iPhone 4 for example?

Also, any chance for in game editor for user created maps?

 

Any word one when we might see a release?

 

ok... its been too long... how much longer do we have to wait?

 

I really need this. I'm using UniRPG, but he is nothing optimized.
If I do not get this tool ,i will having to implement improvements to uniRPG. :/

 

Did this ever comeout .

PM me the price if it did .

 

I'm curious as well. PM me the price also, mudloop.

 

I'm not the maker or anything, and this is slightly derailing (I apologize), but have you tried contacting leslie young about that? I contacted him once or twice and he was more then willing to help me out.