[RELEASED] - proTile Map Editor

Hello fellows,

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PS: Discussion is now moved to the new thread with the second version: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/released-protile-map-editor-2.311542/
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I would like to announce my Unity Editor Extension - proTile Map Editor that I've been working for quite a while!



Feature list:

• Different types of painting Tiles (Standard, Mass, Continuous).
• Tile-Connections: will connect roads, walls and similar assets for you.
• Tile Randomizer.
• Patterns: Build once, place multiple times.
• Performance and size optimisations.
• Editor for categorizing your Tiles.
• Different camera setups. Fits different 3D/2D type of games.
• Easy to Load and Use maps.
• Supports different size/scale Tiles.
• Works with Unity Free and all platforms.
• Fits for regular map making, not only tile based.
• It's open source, so you can change code or use API in game.
• Documentation, examples and more!

Best is to watch Video Presentation:

Some screenshots:












v1.4 UPDATE

Video

v1.4 Update includes:
- Tile Randomizer. Randomize your tile prefabs / rotation when building.
- New and better Mass Builder. Ability to mass build vertically.
- Better support for Lightmaps.
- New and better Eraser.
- Define map scale when loading.
- Better optimization and performance.
- Better experience in general and other improvements (eg. saving options, camera position, etc for each map).
- Better support for 2D/Quads.
- Very fast Editor loading.
- Some bug fixes and other improvements.

For documentation and more info visit: http://www.protilemapeditor.com

Asset Store link: http://u3d.as/content/pro-andrius-productions/pro-tile-map-editor

Let me know what you think and Enjoy!

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PS: Discussion is now moved to the new thread with the second version: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/released-protile-map-editor-2.311542/
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UPDATE: Version 1.08

Fixed: Very minor issue with MapLoader Component (now loading maps at runtime should work for all platforms without any issues).
Improved: Better Documentation.

 

@ProjectOne, thanks!

Regarding iOS performance, it's working very well. I'm actually using it for my mobile RPG game. It might require to do some loading tricks if you want very huge maps but it supports LoadMapAsync() so you can load other map parts while game is running.

 

@Hoegbo, thank you.

Regarding "power of 3 tiles", I'm not sure what do you mean. I do support different size/scale tiles it only depends on how you setup your pivot point, for example: http://protilemapeditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MakingTiles_01.png

About "random tile option" it's already on my todo list, it will be released in some upcoming updates. Not sure when yet, trying to figure out how to make a really nice set-up for them.

 

@DaneC020, thank you very much!

@Hoegbo, regarding when building in vertical you can easily do that. You can either make some patterns with your building and build them using mass build or you can handle vertical just by building with mass always on top (mass build handles any top position, so you can use mass build on top of your objects). For randomising, that is something in my todo list.

For streaming maps, you can use LoadMapAsync() and you can set map offset to be loaded, so you can have huge map (which is made from different maps) and stream it while playing.

 

Just released update v1.12.

Release Notes

• Support for non-renderer tiles (when making triggers and similar).
• Exposed "enable/disable Snap on TOP" in runtime Options.
• Fixed default offset for map loading.
• Ability to change speed of LoadMapAsync in function and improved loading in general.
• Better support for plane/2D or very small tiles.
• Improved performance and documentation.

 

It's possible to use 2D tiles to use this plugin but if you have an atlas you will have to make each tile separated on your own.

 

It should work with terrain if you change grid object to terrain and put in the exact place and add collider + tag. But by default I did not intend to make it work with terrain but it is possible with some tweaks.

 

@im, thanks!

 

Hi, yes it's possible. You can turn on/off snapping for X/Z axis, so you can place object however you want.

 

1. It's possible, but at the moment for map editor to work at runtime player you will need to do some coding, because I'm using a lot of Editor functionality and you will have to remove/replace these. I'm making an update for the editor and one of the new features are to support map editor in runtime player.

2. Yes, it's not hard. I have explained some of the basics in the documentation. Basically you need to follow some simple rules (which most of the time are common) http://protilemapeditor.com/?page_id=5

 

Hi, Thanks! I will look into! Sometimes Unity Free behaves weird with this kind of stuff.

 

By the way, I wanted to note that soon new update will come out!

New features soon:

• Tile randomizer - randomise tile prefabs and rotations (good when using mass/continues build).
• New and better Mass Builder + a ability to mass build vertically.
• Better support for lightmaps.
• New and better eraser.
• Define map scale when loading.
• Better optimisation and performance!
• Some other better experience and improvements (eg. saving options, camera for each map).
• Better support for quads/2d and some bug fixes (I'm glad that only few very specific bug cases were found!).

Now I'm in testing phase and will submit soon!

Also thank you all for everything, you people are great!

Random pic from testing (only 1 draw call!):

 

Just Released v1.4 update!

Video

Update includes:
- Tile Randomizer. Randomize your tile prefabs / rotation when building.
- New and better Mass Builder. Ability to mass build vertically.
- Better support for Lightmaps.
- New and better Eraser.
- Define map scale when loading.
- Better optimization and performance.
- Better experience in general and other improvements (eg. saving options, camera position, etc for each map).
- Better support for 2D/Quads.
- Very fast Editor loading.
- Some bug fixes and other improvements.

Thank You all for the support!

 

Hi,

It combines meshes depending on the different materials with some additional optimisations (eg. I calculate how much it makes sense to have vertex in one batch). But usually it will be 1 draw call per different material.

On the mobiles, it works quite well (I use on one of my RPG games for mobiles). It also depends how you prepare your tiles, if you make them in a smart way, you can make huge and difficult maps and it will work just fine.

The only problem you might find if you have very big maps (eg. like in diablo2) is loading time. But you can solve that either loading maps offline in the editor or using LoadLevelAsync() at runtime (for example to unload different places). But it also might be not a big deal for user to wait additional seconds to load a map (which is common).

let me know if you have any other questions!

 

Small note, if you are getting error with the latest update "error CS0103: The name `Unwrapping' does not exist in the current context".

The fix is on it's way!

If you can't wait for the fix. You can open uteCombineChildren.cs and on line 90 insert #if UNITY_EDITOR and #endif around the Unwrapping.GenerateSecondaryUVSet(filter.mesh);

It should look like this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. #if UNITY_EDITOR
3. Unwrapping.GenerateSecondaryUVSet(filter.mesh);
4. #endif
5.  

 

Yes, I'm actually started working on the layering feature (like in photoshop).

 

@cg_destro, thanks for the suggestions! I will of course consider these suggestions for upcoming updates.
@RabbitB,

I'm actually working on the support of the Runtime and I've already done lots of it but it's still in progress as well. I want to make it really good and it would include stuff like (setting up custom tile preview textures, very easy exposed API, setting up tiles as countable/collectable and etc.).

So keep updated, the updated might happen pretty soon.

 

I've just released beta 1 build for proTile Map Editor v2.0, which mainly contains whole new API for Runtime usage and couple of other features. If you want to get hands on it, send me an email to pro.andrius@gmail.com and don't forget your invoice number which proves that you have proTile Map Editor.

 

UPDATE

I've just released beta 2 build for proTile Map Editor v2.0, that contains:
1. Runtime support with exposed all API for using map editor functionality at runtime.
2. Layers (create separate layers when using Editor (workflow similar to photoshop layers)).
3. Custom Tile previews for Runtime usage.
4. Some other optimisations and improvements.

If you are interested, write me to pro.andrius@gmail.com (include your invoice number).

For those that already have beta 1 build, I will be sending beta 2 builds to you soon.

 

I'm using Unity GUI.

 

Well it depends on the Tiles ofc. I'm not using anything "special" to Instantiate tiles faster. As for for saving/editing it's pretty fast because it just file write.

Runtime support (for proTile Map Editor v2.0) is only in beta right now. But I'm planning to implement Async load/save for Runtime, so you will not get any lag/stuttering.

If you want to access beta send me your invoice number to pro.andrius@gmail.com and I'll send you a build. I'm planning to ship beta3/beta4 builds quite soon.

 

Loading Async and starting from some point is interesting idea. I'll think about it. Thanks!

 

Hello all, just released Beta 3 build for proTile Map Editor v2.0:

• Tiles are now sorting by name (in proTileMapEditor).
• LoadMapAsyncFromPoint. Start loading map Asynchronous from a specific point. Ability to change load speed, also define initial tile count load and then async.
• Improved Batching (runtime and offline) it also semi-async so if your map is big it will not give huge spike to batch them but it will batch map in more frames).
• Procedural Tile placement.
• Runtime Batching.
• Improved Runtime Tile creation.
  

If you are interested, as usually ping me to pro.andrius@gmail.com with your invoice number.

For more info see: http://protilemapeditor.com/beta/ReleaseNotes.rtf

 

I will have to check the code and see if it's easy to implement. I will ping you when I know.

 

Hi, so I've checked the code, so it's possible to do that, but it kinda breaks lots of other snapping functionality, so it requires to adjust calculations in multiple places, which will require a while to implement. The reason I chose 1.0f as a default because it works perfectly in lots of situations because using different sizes increases miscalculation for floats, which might cause some other problems.

I think I will implement this to choose the default "value" but it might only be as a part of v2.0 (or later), since it's not really that necessary for majority.

But if you really need this I can spend some time to implement this faster in v2.0 and since you bought it I could send you a beta build with this when it's implemented.