🖼️┃2d-tools

[west veldt]

also im not sure what would be a practical sprite resolution either

[solar quarry]

yonatan hi yonatan

[ashen ravine]

Wow so cool wow hello

I solved it at the end through changing the horizontal size and splitting the image

Through the editor

[solar quarry]

ok it was nice helping you

yonatan

[modest cargo]

Your game window view is zoomed in

[solemn latch]

It generally is the middle that scales?

[west veldt]

I know but even zoomed out it still looks bad

[modest cargo]

Game window shows how things will look on the monitor, and since monitors don't have infinite display resolution images will be pixelated when you shrink them small enough

more pixelated than what you be used to in other software since Unity doesn't have powerful image resampling algorithms

[solemn latch]

You also might have your max size set too low in the texture import.

Or if you are scaling the sprite you might need to change your filtering mode

Given the trivial performance cost, I don't even know why unity defaults to bilinear filtering on PC builds

[ashen ravine]

No, for some reason the left and right parts are the one who get scaled.

[solemn latch]

...do you have them backwards somehow?

[solemn latch]

Try recreating the sprite(delete the meta file and reimport) and see if that fixes it?

[ashen ravine]

No change, but I found a workaround that works for me for now.

Thanks anyways!

[solemn latch]

Gonna tell us how you fixed it?

[ashen ravine]

Oh sorry!
I just resized the image itself to match it in game

I do want to try and fix this and see what's wrong, I will probably update here if I find out how to fix this

The sprite editor works great for any other image with the slicing tool so all good for now

[west veldt]

So will the actual game not be pixelated, and it just looks like that in the editor, or…..?

[solemn latch]

Haha, no biggie, just that if someone else has the problem later I was wondering what to tell them 😄

[modest cargo]

It will not appear pixelated per se, it will appear tiny
The part you seem to be missing is that in relation to the camera your sprite is scaled to an extremely small size

[rose scroll]

Is there a way to show a ruler on my grid in unity like in godot?

[hollow crown]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/ruler-2d-align-guides-grid-extension-53951
I have no idea if this plugin is kept up to date

[rose scroll]

25 euro for a ruler

[hollow crown]

$0 for no ruler

[rose scroll]

Don't get me wrong I appreciate you helping me search, I was hoping it was in the system and I'm too much of a noob to know where it was

[hollow crown]

If it is, I've never heard of it

[river igloo]

Is there a known issue with Tilemap.SetColor()? I'm encountering a strange issue where I fade out the tiles in a coroutine when the player moves under them but some tilemaps are reseting instantly to be opaque once the coroutine ends. I've traced my methods for setting the tile color and the call doesn't seem to be coming from my code. The debugged alpha values match the intended result, but after it finishes something else is resetting the alpha value. This problem started when I made optimizations to detect when the tilemap is on screen and only occurs when the tilemap has compeltely left the screen once during runtime. The actual code to fade and unfade the tiles was unchanged.

[queen prairie]

what are good ways, if any, to use 2D vector graphics (like for sprites etc)?

[modest cargo]

The official Vector Graphics package
Though do note that it merely converts vector graphics to raster graphics, as Unity doesn't support SVG vector graphics internally

[solemn latch]

Unity sprites, spriteshapes, line renderers, and splines are vector graphics with textures applied. You can render them without textures if you want.

[oak rapids]

So I'm trying to setup ldtk for unity and in ldtk the tiles align, but in unity they overlap

[past cargo]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask but can someone tell me how to fix my tileset?

i dont get how to make it fit the grid correctly

the tile size is 16x16

[shut skiff]

I need help with something

[modest cargo]

Post only to one relevant channel and start with the actual question

[plucky fog]

Here

Make sure you set your pixels per unity to your tile size

I have mine set to 32 in the photo but you would set it to 16

Also make sure to set the filter to point when working with pixel art

[river geode]

Why is my game view not pixel perfect but my scene view is?

[elfin sandal]

do you have the pixel perfect component

[river geode]

i do not

[civic zenith]

hey folks, does anyone know if there's a way to attach other components other than Scriptable Objects to tiles painted in the palette (tilemaps) - my goal is to grab the Vector3Int of tiles painted in the palette via code

[civic zenith]

(of course if there's an easier way plz lemme know :))

[civic zenith]

err.. painted in the inspector, grabbed via code

[solemn latch]

You can paint any prefabs you like, I believe

[balmy elk]

The solution we talked about worked really well btw, since you wanted updates

The top and bottom tiles use the same spritesheet

[acoustic tangle]

i'm guessing this gets asked alot

but whats with this

i don't do frontend at all so barely touched it

just context its a tilemap

with a sprite sheet with 16x16 tiles

random horizontal gaps when tiled in the scene

tried to google it but none of the answers seem to be working

okay so apparently setting it to 15.99 fixes it

wtf

[balmy elk]

Try using a sprite atlas

[bleak vigil]

Trying to get my tilemap set up and all the tiles are in the middle of the grid like this. They are 32x32. Is there a way to fill the grid with them individually or change the grid size for them?

[modest cargo]

Oh yea definitely cool 👁️
I assume the part about tracking the color "index" by script was so that the colors can correspond to specific tile types?
I would assume it's not necessary for the coloring per se, but makes it easier to keep track of things

[balmy elk]

Each biome gets set specific tile layers, and the tiles in these layers are assigned color remaps. On initialization, these remaps are mapped to indices corresponding to the row in the tilemap gradient texture

I also think it looks cool with bloom

Probably also some cool effects doable since it makes it very efficient to modify it at runtime

https://transfer.sh/ShIOKu/Unity_YX6uExUQiB.mp4

[modest cargo]

I'll certainly want to implement something like that if I get a suitable project!

[balmy elk]

Since my artwork skills are very limited I try to supplement them with procedural stuff like this 😅

[modest portal]

When I import my psd art into Unity, it always seems to come out looking kind of tacky. Like this picture that replaces the gradients I put on the buildings with solid colors. Does anyone know how i can fix this?

[modest cargo]

Texture compression often harshly reduces the amount of available colors, which crunches gradients especially down a lot

So, try different compression levels in texture import settings

[modest cargo]

Change Pixels Per Unit value in texture import settings

[modest portal]

removing the compression did the trick, thanks!

but i have a question though

why is it compressed by default? Is it to save on resources?

[modest cargo]

Yes, less compressed textures take up much more space on disk and in memory, and not all textures visually suffer from compression equally

[bleak vigil]

that fixed it, thank you!

[dusty merlin]

i can scale this tiled
Image

[acoustic tangle]

do rule tile templates exist like give it a multisprite and populate?

instead of setting each one up individually

[modest cargo]

I'm not sure what your question is but looks like your sprite type is not set to "multiple"

[storm sonnet]

Hello. How do i edit my tilemap renderer objects? My Terrain object only covers until the edge of the spike, eventhough i wanted it to include the grass. Because of it, my player falls through the grass that isnt included on the tilemap renderer. Any tips?

[snow nexus]

hey there, I have 2 different sets of sprites for tiles but they have different sizes 500x500 and 16x16. what's the best way to mix them together in a map? Do I have to downscale/upscale the sprite to make them match before the tilemap or is there a better way through unity? perhaps mixing multiple grids?

@storm sonnet maybe trying editing the collider size to include the grass

[snow nexus]

answering myself, I found that by clicking the tile in the tile palette I could modify its scale in the inspector to match my other tiles. Idk if that's the best way but so far it seems to work

[dusty merlin]

@modest cargo yes it wos that 😄

[light scaffold]

anyone have any info about using prefabs in rule tiles? prefabs of meshes, not sprites

how are these objects treated? since they aren't in the hierarchy. is there a way to put them in the hierarchy at all and act as normal prefabs ?

I also noticed they lose their parent

the prefabs are an empty parent and a child gameobject with a mesh. when I put them in a rule tile and paint with it they somehow lose their parent and are just the meshes game object, that still has it's collider though

[lean delta]

how to resize tiles

[austere iron]

i believe it's the ppu when importing them . . .

[lean delta]

@austere iron

[austere iron]

no, the import settings of the file . . .

[sick saddle]

the grid size and pixel size have to match

[lean delta]

so how to do that

[sick saddle]

I've only worked with 2d a little, but I had a similiar problem and it's just about making sure your sprite size matches you grid when you setup

[sick saddle]

I can only give you a bread crumb, I don't have the full solution

[lean delta]

im still finding this error, i will wait someone that can help

[plain bobcat]

how would i go about highlighting specific tiles in unity? whats the default way of transferring data between a grid and a script?

[plain bobcat]

how do i fix this:

[solemn latch]

Fixing what?

[solemn latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.GetTile.html

[plain bobcat]

the tiles not being perfectly alligned

[solemn latch]

It just looks like a blob of pixels to me, so I can't even tell. You'll want to make sure that the size and pivot position of each tile is correct.

[plain bobcat]

what exactly do u mean by size? my pixels per unit is correct and everything else is the default

heres a better image so u can see whats going on

also any good resources u have for making isometric games would be really appreciated. trying to make a turn based strategy game but having a hard time learning this stuff since there arent many good resources online

[solemn latch]

Have you read the isometric handbook unity put out?

[plain bobcat]

this?https://blog.unity.com/technology/isometric-2d-environments-with-tilemap

[bright scaffold]

When I tried to make a particle in unity with my own material it just shows up as black squares. Is there any way to fix this? (I think that this is the correct place to ask)

[spiral stag]

Hello, I don't know where to ask this question but I am trying to make a 2d Platformer. I made a sprite, and added collision and all, yet when i press play the sprite disappears. I am new and trying to learn, so I am of course using tutorials, but I am just stuck on this. Here is a streamable video because I don't have nitro. https://streamable.com/84n63s if you want to see

[tender perch]

I am not sure how to fix this problem with my sprites having the wrong base size and thus displaying at the wrong size

I want them to display at their native size

[bright scaffold]

Two things: Number 1: Why is my character super stretched? I didn't do anything to it that I know of that would make it like this. And secondly, why is it super low quality? I've tried everything that I've found online and none of it worked. If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it.

And just one more thing - My character doesnt show up in scene view, and I have no clue why

[modest cargo]

Squashed on X axis

[bright scaffold]

Ok thanks!

[solemn latch]

Yes

[solemn latch]

What is it supposed to look like? It is your material.

[bright scaffold]

It’s supposed to be pixel art smoke particles I made and imported into unity as a material

[solemn latch]

And it is more of a #✨┃vfx-and-particles question but I don't see people talk much in there so.

[bright scaffold]

Oh ok 👍

[solemn latch]

What do you mean by 'imported as a material'

You need to choose an appropriate shader, first of all

[bright scaffold]

I made a material then imported it as the texture for that

[solemn latch]

A transparent one, probably

[bright scaffold]

I have the particle shader chosen

Wait

No nvm that’s different isn’t it

[solemn latch]

Materials are a shader plus all the settings for it.

[solemn latch]

The low quality is because you have the game view zoomed in.

[bright scaffold]

Wdym by that?

[solemn latch]

That you have the game view zoomed in. Which lowers the quality.

[bright scaffold]

But if I zoom out then I just need to make the sprite bigger which doesn’t change anything

[solemn latch]

First of all, zooming the game view does not match what it will look like in the actual game- you're supposed to change that with the camera settings. Scaling the game view literally scales the view after rendering rather than rendering the scene at a different resolution.

Second, instead of scaling your sprite, you'll want to set the PPU on it in the importer to the scale you want to avoid scaling artifacts.

Making pixel art look good is a massive topic and unity published a guide for it.

[stiff skiff]

i need somebody to rate this out of ten i just spent so freaking long making the design for this

thinking of it too and making different iterations

but you get the point

[midnight oak]

hi there. I'm using the "random" property of the tile rule system to randomise from a selection of tiles of each type. It seems that the randomness is only really generated once (picture related), so if the tile is removed, and then a new one is spawned in that place, it will be guaranteed to be that same tile. is there any way to get it to actually choose a tile randomly?

to give more details, the only property that can be changed is the scale of the noise function, and if i modify that manually at runtime, I can get the result I want. The only issue is that I can't find any documentation on the random property, and the "noise" value doesn't show up in the debug inspector so i don't know how to reference it in code.

basically, is there any way to externally modify these parameters?

And also, the randomisation isn't normally distributed! it is impossible for many of the tile options to spawn, no matter what noise is set to.

specifically, earlier elements in the list seem to be far more likely to appear.

[spare pebble]

do anyone know how to fix this?
i use tilemap to make the ground.

[elfin sandal]

use pixel perfect camera component

[spare pebble]

thanks, it worked

[elfin sandal]

ur welcome

[midnight oak]

still trying to figure this out - I'd really appreciate help!

[feral sapphire]

does unity's system for casting shadows allow for objects to be hidden by them?

[latent marlin]

hi does anybody know how to solve those problems?

[humble thorn]

hey guys, does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of the weird wave effect when moving a camera in 2d? I don't have pixel perfect enabled since I was hoping to be able to zoom in and out while in game

[misty tapir]

hii, i didn't know that we have to set our tiles to a certain resolution. Is there a way to still make tiles fit into the grid without redraw everything?

[solemn latch]

If you mean the 2drp 2d shadows, then I do not believe so.

But there are plenty of better 2s shadow setups that can- you probably want one that uses a sprite renderer that you can use as a mask.

[thorn basin]

Hey guys! I have a tilemap and placed down some tiles. These have a tilemap and composite collider attached to it. But whenever my player lands on it, it somehow sets the x velocity of the rigidbody to around -3 which makes him turn left all the time. Is there a way to change this and why does it happen?

[tidal blade]

Ok so I set up a rule tile and I have it all worked out but I was just wondering if there was a way to edit the collider of each tile individually.

[plain bobcat]

how do i remove a vertex when editing a polygon collider 2d? ive read u need to ctrl click but it doesnt seem to work

[solemn latch]

Ctrl click should do it

[tender perch]

Anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

[solemn latch]

Can you define 'this'? It doesn't seem to be related to #🖼️┃2d-tools and I'm not actually sure what I'm supposed to be looking at here.

[tender perch]

It's okay, I fixed it anyhow

I was able to drag and drop the pokemon objects before into serialized fields

suddenly they just stopped working

like was working, left for an hour came back and it wasnt

[dense night]

Hello! Quick question. Is there any way to trigger a script during a cutscene with the timeline in a 2d game?

[modest cargo]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64695035/how-to-trigger-a-script-at-a-given-time-in-the-timeline
Check the first reply here
2D or not doesn't make a difference

[dense night]

thanks!

[tidal blade]

So I have a question about tile maps, basically I want different tiles to do different things and I kind of found a solution but I definitely don't feel like it's the best solution. I made a couple different tile maps that have different scripts attached to each respectively. So I'm just wondering what would be the best way to do this.

[plain bobcat]

is there a way to change the base color of an object from white?

[midnight oak]

never figured this out - is there a way to submit this as a feature request?

[strong mica]

I've been having this exact same issue, that's what I came here to ask ouch. No idea why the random feature for tilemaps is so awful. Also the noise function seems to be very strange - at an even 0.5 noise I only see 3/8 of my tile sprites.

I wonder if it's a bug that the "random" tilemaps seem to have the same seed every single time, because it seems like a no-brainer to want to change them around.

[gleaming perch]

anyone knows why my mouse (in red area) doesnt match the square while painting with tilepallete?

[limber skiff]

Don’t want to ping you because I’m new to unity and can’t really help but Infiniti/Constantine — you mean it isn’t “true” Random?

[jolly narwhal]

The Perlin noise function is deterministic, it's expected to return the same values for the same input. You get a new set of noise by passing a different offset.

[midnight oak]

I'm aware of this, but I don't see why you would want this to be the case on runtime tile generation. Don't you think it would be a good option? There's no way I can find to externally set or modify that offset. The scale of the offset also seems to be broken, and the perlin noise appears to favor items closer to the top of the list of possible tiles.

also, perhaps I misunderstand something about this implementation, but why is the offset a clamped absolute with a center of 0.5 to begin with?

I'd love an accessible value 'variance' that linearly changes the scale of the noise and a toggle to sidestep perlin altogether and just pick a random index.

[midnight oak]

it's random, but it only generates it once, so if you remove tiles and make new ones in the same place, they're guaranteed to be the same tile

and yeah, it's biased so you could say it isn't truly random.

[solemn latch]

Presumably it is so that the function can be used in generating the same map using the same inputs.

I mean, it is unity's 2d team so obviously they did it ass-backwards

But can't you just write your own rule tile?

[midnight oak]

the idea was that the player can place down tiles, and it would choose a variated sprite at random

it was already done in a rule time.

[solemn latch]

What I mean is that if the provided rule tile isn't suitable why not just make a different one?

With whatever method of picking you like?

It would be far simpler than the example scriptable tile they have in the manual

[midnight oak]

This was for my ludum dare game, but if I update it, I'll be sure to try that.

[dusky ridge]

Hey! So I want to make this tilemap a prefab to copy and use multiple times. I read about making the parent an object so it can attach itself to local coordinates. My issue seems to be that the tilemap is the wrong size? Any solutions?

[last idol]

Just use a override rule tile

And change whatever is in charge of random rule tiling

[drifting sigil]

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere (I have googled a bit) but where can I find high level pros and cons of using URP vs. the built in render pipeline for a 2d game? For example, can you use either for development for all platforms, does URP let you get certain graphics/aesthetics that built in cant, etc. Thanks

[vapid bough]

Hi, I'm starting to make a Isometric 2D game with the Tilemap Isometric Z as Y, but the tiles keep "eating" my chars feet.
Both char and tiles are in the same Z.
I tried put the Z+1 to my char, but them the walls won't work propely...
Someone have a guide to solve this?
OBS: I'm using the custom axis (0,1,-26).

[solemn latch]

I believe that the render pipeline handbook unity just put out a bit ago has a rough comparison of features.

The main difference is that urp2d(not regular urp) has 2d lighting at the cost of being 2d only and also kinda sucking.

I personally use urp non-2d renderer, since I don't use unity's 2d lighting.

[drifting sigil]

Thanks

[wanton timber]

also what program would you recommend for making isometric tile sets?

[vivid axle]

I'm trying to use my tiles on a tilemap, but they keep just making pink squares

I've tried remaking the palette many times and have reimported the assets

the same thing always happens

[storm pond]

Hi trying to drag my tile palettes onto the tilemap

But it's not letting me

not sure because unity updated(most likely cuz I was following tutorial from youtube)
but he was able to drag his block into the unity tilemap

[still tendon]

I am making a 3d tilemap but when I try to select the game object brush it doesnt appear in the dropdown menu

does anyone know why\

only default brush shows up

[elfin sandal]

i think u need to downlaod it

look up 2d extras unity

[vivid axle]

I'm trying to use my tiles on a tilemap, but they keep just making pink squares. I've tried remaking the palette many times and have reimported the assets, the same thing always happens. Ty

[solemn latch]

Are you using a material meant for the wrong render pipeline? That is the usual cause of the neon pink.

[vivid axle]

what does that mean

[still tendon]

i want to make my game so that when you run in front of a plant you appear on-top but when you are behind the plant you appear below anyone know how?

[bright scaffold]

When I use the sorting group component, it works in the scene view but not in the game - can anyone help??

[worthy harbor]

Should/Can I ask a* pathfinding questions here?

[tiny nest]

Hey, any reasons why my 2D normal map doesn't work?

I have set my sprite to have a normal map as secondary texture and set the light to calculate normal maps but it doesn't do anything

[solemn latch]

You can but probably would get better help in #🤖┃ai-navigation or #archived-code-general

[solemn latch]

What renderer, what kind of light, are you using a lit/normal mapped sprite material, are your layers correct?

[tiny nest]

I am using URP, using a Spot Light and using a material I made with a URP Sprite Lit Shader Graph. and the layers are correct

[solemn latch]

urp or urp2d?

[civic zenith]

a bit late for this but you can compare the Y values of the player and the object assuming 'up' makes them 'behind'.

[tiny nest]

Is there a difference?

I started the project with SRP and then converted it to URP

[solemn latch]

Yes. 2d lights are only in urp2d, which doesn't support many of the features of normal(3d) urp

[tiny nest]

Oh then I'm using URP2D because I have 2D lights

Can I use the normal lights then and it would work?

[solemn latch]

urp2d and urp have different lights. If you're using 2d lights with a 2d lit shader it should just work

[tiny nest]

well, it doesn't

isn't 2D lit shader the same as Sprite Lit Shader?

[solemn latch]

Um, they've messed with the naming so much in the various versions that it might be

I don't use 2durp myself

[tiny nest]

@solemn latch I just checked the materials and there's only Sprite-Lit, Default-Lit and Lit

None of them work as expected

[solemn latch]

Hm. Not sure then

[tiny nest]

I am sure that the map itself works because it works in Godot

so it has to be something with Unity

[modest cargo]

@tiny nest I would opt to get one of the URP 2D example projects to compare, or retrace the steps of a tutorial for setting up URP 2D lighting with normal mapping

I don't know that process by heart either

[tiny nest]

where can I find a URP2D example project that has lights in place?

[modest cargo]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/lost-crypt-2d-sample-project-158673

[tiny nest]

thanks

actually

I tried downloading a normal map and placing it on a sprite and it worked on that sprite

1 sec

this is a normal map I'm trying to us

It's not finished but it shouldn't be a problem, is it?

[modest cargo]

Normal maps need to be of type normal map
The grey and black parts will not show lighting correctly if at all

[tiny nest]

yeah I know, but the other parts should theorectically show normal lighting

[solemn latch]

Is there an alpha channel?

And yes, as Spazi said, is it set to normal map in the importer?

[still tendon]

my UI canvas is massive how do I get it to be a normal size (the green thing in the corner is my world which has the camera in it

[ember lark]

set render mode to screen space - camera and drop your camera in the field that appears

[ashen sapphire]

Im using URP 2D to use 2d lights and I want to make shadows around the corners (like a field of view) but when I try this, it makes shadows on every gameobject (like on the picture). Is there any ways to like merge them?

[dusty hull]

Im using pixel perfect camera for the 2d pixel game im working on but when I turn on upscale render texture and move in game it becomes blurry and kinda like jitters around. Is there any way to fix this? (pixel per unit is 16 as well as all other sprites) (I think it has to do with my camera/cinemachine because when I make the camera not follow and at a fixed position the issue stops happening)

[ashen sapphire]

I can't help much but I have experienced that in the past with cinemachine too

[ashen sapphire]

Try asking in #🎥┃cinemachine maybe

[dusty hull]

alr ty for trying to help tho <3

[tranquil ice]

For tilemaps, is there a good way to swap between two different tile textures for an entire layer?
As I'm trying to swap between the past and present look of a location, and making two copies of it with the same layout, but using a diff texture seems like overkill

[ashen sapphire]

np! :D

[flat agate]

I have a .PSB file that I am using as a 2D animated rig. I duplicated the PSB and made a normal map version PSB file. Is there a way to apply my normal map version .PSB to my 2D rigged .PSB? When I select the normal map PSB file and look at the inspector, the drop down doesnt even show an option for a Normal Map setting. (Maybe I need to generate pngs?)

[dusty merlin]

what apllication should i use for pixel art ?

[dusty hull]

I mean it depends if you don't want to spend money something like gimp is fine but if you can spend money its very very worth the money to buy a pixel art oriented software like aseprite, although there are other free compliled versions like libresprite which is open source

[dusty merlin]

thanks you

i am gonna try libspirite

[vivid axle]

I'm trying to use my tiles on a tilemap, but they keep just making pink squares. I've tried remaking the palette many times and have reimported the assets, the same thing always happens. Ty

[calm wyvern]

pink usualy means the shader is broken or does not fit the current renderpipline

[latent saffron]

Does anyone have an idea how to create 2d sword slash in unity 2d

[vapid bough]

Try reimport and reinstall the tilamap packages

[vapid bough]

Create a empty prefab with the slash animation with loop off, and when the char use the attack, instantiate the prefab in front off the char

[vivid axle]

I have

I've tried with others too

its all just pink

[vapid bough]

Even a new tilemap still are pink?

@vivid axle

[vivid axle]

yup

its all pink

[vapid bough]

Sorry I have no idea them

[vivid axle]

its ok

[vapid bough]

@vivid axle what file type u are using for the sprites? PNG?

And the sprites are defined as 2D on the properties?

[vivid axle]

yup

idk what happened, they were fine one second and pink the next

[vapid bough]

Idk them

@vivid axle do you use git on this project?

[vivid axle]

no

[latent saffron]

thanks

[flat agate]

I have a project with 2 scenes. In Scene 1 I set the display to 1000x1000, and I set Scene 2 to 500x500. The problem is Unity only respects whatever resolution I set as the most recent for both - If I set Scene 1 to 1000x1000, it sets Scene 2 to 1000x1000. I set Scene 2 back to 500x500 and then Scene 1 goes to 500x500. Is there a way I can set a unique resolution for both for editing purposes?

[modest cargo]

What do you mean by "set resolution" precisely?

Or rather why

[flat agate]

If I see my editor window with all of my assets, and my bg, I can go up to the top menu/game tab and click different resolutions, or even custom resolutions. Hope that helps to clarify.

[modest cargo]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/956123/add-and-select-game-view-resolution.html You'd need one such editor script

[flat agate]

Thank you. I'll check this out. I already tried to code something, and changed resolutions, and it doesnt respect what I code. Then again, Im noob. But when I try to use code, and I click "play" it doesnt display the resolution. My current script is (tried to go insanely weird, like 100x100 just to trigger a visual change):

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

using UnityEngine;

public class ExampleScript : MonoBehaviour
{
void Start()
{
// Switch to 640 x 480 full-screen at 60 hz
Screen.SetResolution(100, 100, FullScreenMode.ExclusiveFullScreen, 60);
}
}

[modest cargo]

Why this, I wonder
Normally the user will run the game on just one resolution that suits their monitor

In any case to be able to do that in the editor you need to use editor scripting methods

[flat agate]

In my case I have a storybook. Some backgrounds are like..500x500. Others are 1000x1000. I can do this in other packages no problem, but I know Unity is a different beast.

[modest cargo]

Shouldn't the backgrounds adjust to the resolution, not vice versa?

[flat agate]

I think the resolution is indeed fixed in final export of the game, but I just want to see the entire thing when I click play it to see all effects etc. on a given scene. When I go to a scene and it is set to 500x500 and I click play, I want to see it at 500x500. When I go to antother scene, and edit something like an effect and it the background jpg is 1000x1000, I want to see the entire thing, not just the set resolution I set at 500x500 on the previous scene.

[modest cargo]

Tbh I have no idea why that would be necessary
You'd always preview using the resolutions (or at least the aspect ratio) that the end-user will have, and use the Scene window on the side to see everything you need to see for editing purposes

Game resolution shouldn't change on a per-scene basis so designing the graphics for different resolutions between scenes will just create a new problem

That is, unless you specifically want the game window to change size while playing for an unusual effect

[flat agate]

True, I hear you. But in my case (real world example) as I edit a scene, I need approval for an effect. I edit an effect on a 500x500 background, and export using the recorder, I get my video and show it to the team that way. Next, I go to a 1000x1000 bg edit an effect, but then I have to go, change the resolution to 1000x1000 and export. All I was hoping to do was avoid tedious changing of backgrounds per scene, if I have a bunch of scenes, it gets old. So, the resolutions I am setting are for production, not release.

[modest cargo]

In this example I'd preview both at 1000 pixels and just double the size of the 500 pixel background

[flat agate]

If I did that, then all the effects for a 500 x 500 bg would be placed in accordance with a 1000x1000 setting though, right? Also, thats only an example resolution, each background fits within a portrait or landscape.

[flat agate]

I appreciate your help though, but now we are having a philosophical debate about how to make a game and neither of us are in charge. Considering the games I am working on have been made a certain way for years in an older engine, and Im trying to convince them to switch to Unity, I'd need a better way to sell them. Us having a debate wouldnt do that. lol

[modest cargo]

Indeed! I hope one of the scripts in the link does the job

Whenever you encounter a request or a workflow here that just seems kind of deranged, often it's because of some misunderstanding of common practices, and sometimes there's reasons
Somewhat interesting to hear about it either way

[flat agate]

Yes, I understand. And again, I agree with much of what you were saying, but it isn't "my" game, its for a company that already has practices in place. So my job is to emulate as much of the workflow as I can without disrupting current practices. Jumping engines is already a daunting task. (trying to move away from Cocos currently)

[leaden sinew]

Hello, I have recently started working with tile maps and also downloaded an asset store package with 2d isometric tiles. However I have a problem with tiles sorting layer and whatever I do some tiles just don't want to be behind other tiles :(. Please help if someone knows.

it just decides to do it for unknown to me reasons

interesting is that in the tile pallet nothing of the sort happens and works well

[dense charm]

what causes these white lines on the second row?

[vapid bough]

On the Tilemap Renderer change the "Mode" to individual OR make a Global Sprite Atlas with the tile sprites

[vapid bough]

This is in the editor window or the game view window?

[dense charm]

both

[vapid bough]

I think that these lines are the gizmos of the pivot of the sprite

[dense charm]

gizmos turned off

[lean estuary]

Some solutions here https://forum.unity.com/threads/why-are-pixels-leaking-from-behind-my-texture.413462/

[dense charm]

turning off texture filtering fixed it ty

[astral iris]

hello im making a 2d game im working on a gun (shotgun) and i am kinda stuck because i don't know what to make the bullet look like as everything i try looks off it would be helpful if someone sent me a screenshot on what theirs looks like so i can go off something

[astral iris]

this is how they currently look

wait nevermind i made a good looking one

[ivory urchin]

I built a 2D environment asset generator (describe the tile and it generates tilesets for 16,32,64,128,256). If anyone wants to give it a try, or if anyone has feature suggestions, I would really appreciate some feedback! Feel free to PM. It's not public yet. Example output (rusty metal, rusty chainmail):

[still tendon]

Hi, I need name for game studio. Have you any ideas?

[young charm]

Gamiz Studio

You can call it Gamiz Studio

Or

Gamiti Studio maybe

Or Gamato Studio

I find those ideas right now i dont know if you like anything but ok

[modest cargo]

Post only to one relevant channel please

[silver bane]

Hello everybody

[still tendon]

Hello 👋

[silver bane]

Can somebody help me with this?
I am creating a 2D videogame. Now, there is a tile palette I've prepared, but I have a bit of a problem with the way its rendering is interacting with my character. I want my character's sprite to be shown whenever it gets in front of the tree, but hidden when he gets "behind". I've googled quite a lot and it seems I almost got what I wanted with the use of Individual mode and custom transparency sort axis. I even changed the pivot point in my tiles to the bottom, so that they would interact in the render more accurately.
But now it seems like I've hit another block. If my character moves a bit you can see a part of his sprite "peeking" out between the tiles of the tree.

just like this

I understand that I need to make this tree a single sprite, but exactly how do I do that? My tree is not centred on the tile and is part of the tile palette.

How should I go about this? Is there any way to "merge" the tiles so that the renderer would treat this tree as a single object and not as 6 independent different tiles?

This is the behavior I want to achieve. How do I take a "multi-tile" object/sprite and make it behave as if it is only a single-tile object?

[solemn latch]

You can just make it a larger sprite by not slicing it into pieces?

[silver bane]

Yeah, I guess so. But that means I have to go into the sprite editor and manually edit it. I was hoping for an automated way of making it work

[silver bane]

Well then, I have another question. How do I change the pivot point of my sprites without affecting the way that sprite is placed in the grid?

Because if I adjust a pivot point for every sprite, then they will all look badly aligned on the grid

[misty tapir]

hello, i'm trying to fix layering of characters and objects. I'm using an isometric map, and for some objects, players are able walk behind and in front of the objects. but it doesn't do that for all of them. I've tried changing the transparency sort mode to custom and sort axis y to 1, x and z to 0. but that didn't solve the problem. And just for your information, most of the objects and character are on the same layer.
i would really appreciate it If anyone could direct me to any source that might help

this is how i want it to work.

but character always stands on top the object for other objects 🥲

[silver bane]

Now that I've opened my project, I see this

[silver bane]

I've figured out a workaround. When you are creating your tile palette, you need to make sure that every sprite (specifically those that you want the engine to be considered as one image and not a collection of tiles) is covered by only one frame in the sprite editor

[silver bane]

This probably means that they are on a different sorting layer. Check their rendering layer for sure

[zealous shadow]

I have a game and idk what to use sprite renderer or image/raw image... any help on what I should choose

(the game isn't a huge project... it's rather small)

[modest cargo]

With sprite renderer you can use sprite sheets and sprite animation
Images are for canvas UI with the anchors and canvas scalers, raw images are images for specific situations

The choice depends on your workflow, not project size

I'd recommend images for UI and sprites for not-UI
Though in some cases the line between them may be blurred if the game consists mosly or entirely of UI-like elements like motion graphics

[zealous shadow]

@modest cargo I understand, thank you

[median forge]

We're can I get a 2d desert background for free

[modest cargo]

I'd look on the internet
Though be mindful of copyright

[median forge]

Thanks

[delicate dock]

I recently started creating some quick levels using a sprite sheet and tilemap. now that i have the base layouts i would like to add things like scripts and physics to some of the tiles, but i don't see a way to do that ass all of the tiles are grouped into one tilemap object. when i set the rendering mode to individual, will that allow me to interact with the tiles as individual objects? if not, will i have to manually place each tile?

[silver bane]

What exactly do you want to do?

[silver bane]

To answer your question – no

Setting the rendering mode to individual does not change anything except the way your tilemaps are going to be rendered

I'd suggest you to just create multiple tilemap objects

In one grid

And just draw the parts you want to add your scripts onto on those specific tilemaps

[delicate dock]

okay

thanks

[still tendon]

Part of my sprite is rendered incorrectly (pixels on front of face are deleted)

also the border on his toes and part of his hat

[silver bane]

How does the original look like?

[still tendon]

fixed it

[silver bane]

What was the issue?

[still tendon]

idk I just deleted and replaced

[still tendon]

Hello how come i can't seem to get this to work i tried videos but i can't fig it out please help me. All i want is to make this

see that map lay out i can't seem to find out how to get it to that point

[silver bane]

Use tilemaps and grids

This seems like an isometric tilemap

[inner mango]

Is there a way to import a webp image to a texture? It seems to only support png, jpg, ect

[silver bane]

Sorry I don't know, but can't you just convert webp to any of those?

[inner mango]

The images are downloaded at runtime. I don’t know of any way to convert them in Unity.

[silver bane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYSqN1YouJs

I have found this

The author says in the desc of the video, that you need to contact them and they will share the tool

I am not sure if this can be used at runtime tho

[modest cargo]

I'd assume not if it relies on editor code

I would presume this tasks requires you to run a separate webp decoder program together with the application (such as https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/dwebp) or to hook up libraries that can do that

[silver bane]

Wait, you can just attach libraries to your project's code?

[modest cargo]

I think it's possible but I have about 0% familiarity with it

[silver bane]

It feels like something possible

But for some reason I have never even thought of this

Anyway. Does anybody here know how to access an individual tiles' position?

I am writing code that allows my character to be seen behind walls/trees/other sprites

With sprites it is easy to do, you just get their game object's pos and compare with your char's pos

But with tilemaps you can't really do that

[modest cargo]

Seen, as in rendered to us viewers, or when calculating lines of sight, or something else?

[silver bane]

I am using a sprite mask for this

[modest cargo]

My first idea would be to try something like https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.GetTile.html
but that assumes you already have a position and just need the tile
Though I may misunderstand

[silver bane]

I have a script which determines when to enable and disable it

[silver bane]

Yeah, I am considering this option

But it is a pain

[modest cargo]

Hard for me to think of a situation where you already have a tile or a reference to it, but not its position?

[silver bane]

Are you saying that you know how to get a reference to a tile without knowing its position?

If there is a way to do this somehow, it would solve my problem

[still tendon]

Is there anything you can do to help, as when I place the blocks they are not next to each other there is a big gap and I can't seem to put them together

[still tendon]

why do i keep getting that?

[modest cargo]

You need to be using an isometric grid for an isometric tilemap

[still tendon]

So I have done that

But then they are on top of each other

[silver bane]

I am pretty sure there are many videos that describe how to work with the isometric grids on youtube

[silver bane]

Try changing the rendering mode to individual

It is in the tilemap components

[still tendon]

okay thanks

[vital marten]

are you be able to animate those shaders ?

[untold loom]

hey guys, i'm having a slight problem with pixel art, it seems that some pixels scale weirdly. i've already applied point filter mode and pixel perfect camera but the issue still persists. you can see that some black pixels arent consistent. here's a screenshot:

[modest cargo]

This will fundamentally happen if the sprite PPU, gameobject scale and camera size don't match perfectly, and in addition to that can happen when the camera or objects relative to it move
Look into "pixel perfect camera" and pixel perfect rendering for a system of rendering pixel sprites with perfect accuracy

[untold loom]

thanks, i was using different scaling so setting it back to 1, 1, 1 fixed it

[warm lodge]

Guessing this is the place to ask

I set the internal rendering order of my 2d sprites using a bunch of child sprites and the z axis, how would I group them all under the parent object so they interact as one with other sprites?

Sorting group breaks the z axis sort and uses hierarchy position instead for some reason

[modest cargo]

@warm lodge https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html Unity has multiple ways for sorting 2D sprites, utilized in priority order, moving to next method if the first one doesn't specify a result

[warm lodge]

Thanks for the response, how would I set the order of the parent object in the layer so that all of its children are effected?

[modest cargo]

As far as I know object hierarchy relations and positions are entirely unrelated from sorting (except in Canvas UI)

[warm lodge]

With and without sorting groups

on the parent object

Also the children sprites intersect without the sorting groups enabled

[modest cargo]

Are they skinned sprite renderers?

[warm lodge]

skinned?

[modest cargo]

Guess not
I don't remember this stuff by heart, I recommend to check the article about sorting and see if those rules seem to check out

[warm lodge]

So I managed to this which kinda works ig

@obsidian finch

[warm lodge]

Just tempted to go through every animation and change the sorting layer manually

[elfin sandal]

I remember reading an article that fixes that issue let me see if i can find it

[elfin sandal]

https://blog.unity.com/technology/a-lightning-round-of-great-tips-for-2d-games

here u go

should be added to the pinned links since we get lots of similar questions that get covered here

[warm lodge]

Thanks for the help, but I remember explicitly stating that sort groups messed up the z axis sorting system I had and that itself was the issue

[elfin sandal]

hm it's probably an issue with transparency sort mode

[warm lodge]

The transparency sort mode is working as intended, prioritizing z over y, it's just that group sort ignores the transparency custom sort order settings and orders its children on a completely arbitrary basis

[elfin sandal]

I guess they don't expect u to mess with the z axis

since its for 2d

[warm lodge]

Like if I had (a, b, c, d, e) rendering in that order, grouping together abc gives me ((b, a, c), d, e) for no reason at all

[wooden escarp]

oh does it not rotate the rule?

i thought for example i could make 4 corner pieces all going the same way

but the game can rotate them in what way it wants to fit

that way i have to only make 4 but get 16 basically

maybe someone has a custom script for that

nevermind

i was doing it wrong lol

[warm lodge]

Okay that's it

tweaking every single animation

[eager star]

can someone tell me why the tiles i pick from my tile palette are turning way darker on my grid? right is the color i want and left is the one i got on my grid

new to this, pardon me if its hella simple lol

[warm lodge]

lighting?

[eager star]

i dont think i changed something @ lightning tbh, can u tell me where to find it? im like super new 😄

[warm lodge]

You're older than me lol, look at my leaf thing

Does it appear the same way in the gamescreen?

[warm lodge]

It took me hours but I did it 💪

[eager star]

I joined when I started my bachelors but never started to get into unity until yesterday that’s why I’m longer in here

And it was because I picked a tint for the prefab lol not intended, so it went darker

[warm lodge]

Tbh same, I started unity in middle school and had a love-hate relationship where I would just drop it for years at a time

Good job fixing the problem 🙏

[subtle python]

Hi guys, I'm a web dev for 7 years and now want to build a 2d game

But I'm no artists

Where could I get assets

And maybe easiest tools to customize them a bit, like color, gradients

?

Or I'm delusional and without properly knowing design tools I can't make a nice looking 2D game?

I'm not going for pixelart

Hi Rez sprites

[modest cargo]

Only if you can find assets that exactly match your needs and vision
So probably not, making nice looking and well functioning art requires tools and the skill to use them
I'd recommend searching at Unity asset store and OpenGameArt, but there are probably many more sites
Gimp is not the easiest tool for editing, but it has every tool you might need

[subtle python]

How about easier tools ? @modest cargo 🙂

It's just after job time

[modest cargo]

PaintDotNet is by far the easiest I'd say

[subtle python]

Thanks spazi

🙌

[vestal tusk]

I have a weird problem that I don't seem to find a way to deal with it. My sprites showing on the Sprite Shape are way darker than the normal colors. I am not using light in my game so I have no idea why this would occur.

When I use this tool, it's almost giving the right color though 🤔

[vestal tusk]

OMG I feel so dumb 🤦‍♂️

The color is not white

[restive sun]

why is the scale at 0.45x

[modest cargo]

It depends on the size of the game window in relation to chosen resolution

[silver bane]

Ugh, I've been working with tilemaps for two weeks now

And let me tell you guys, my experience with them is just bad so far. I guess they are okay as long as you don't need anything complex, but as soon as you need something which would require precision, they are just not good to work with. At this point, I am considering just switching to sprites, which are loosely positioned with the use of the snap to grid tool to emulate the grid.

Maybe it is just my inexperience, but I've been trying really hard to research this and couldn't find anything. It really does seem like there is no easy way to work with each individual tile in code?

[modest cargo]

What do you mean by precision?

[silver bane]

The ability to work with each individual tile in the tilemap, I guess

[modest cargo]

"work"?

[silver bane]

Access it somehow in the code

The only way I can do this is by feeding the GetTile method locations of the tiles

As far as I understand

And the problem with this is that I don't always know their locations

[modest cargo]

That alone is very useful since you can get a position in countless different ways

[silver bane]

Ok, suppose I solved this issue somehow

[modest cargo]

GetTilesBlock gets all tiles within certain bounds

There's scriptable tiles which allow tiles to have their own logic

[silver bane]

Now this sounds interesting

[modest cargo]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras@2.2/manual/Tiles.html

[silver bane]

Ah, is that for dynamic tilemap editing?

I thought that by "logic" you meant something which would affect gameplay

I am looking for a way to disable sprites on certain tile at runtime when a condition is met

[modest cargo]

Is that the same as removing a tile?

[silver bane]

But it does not seem like tiles have any sort of SpriteRenderer attached to them

[silver bane]

You mean completely erasing it?

[dense sequoia]

im making a menu but on font asset it sais none (TMP_FontAsset)
when i click no fonts show up how do i get fonts

[elfin sandal]

install tmp essentials

not a 2d tool question tho, more like #📲┃ui-ux

[restive sun]

so if it was Maximize On Play the scale would be bigger?

[gilded wadi]

Generate physics shape is disabled on the import settings of my tileset but it's still generating physics shapes for tiles

i just dont want it to generate all of these shitty polygon colliders for slopes and stuff

how do i prevent this? is there a quick way to delete all of these colliders from my tileset?

for now i only want colliders on solid square tiles

[modest cargo]

Yes, that's the gist of it

[gilded wadi]

when i have the tiles selected in my sprite editor in the Custom Physics Shape tab they dont even display anything

why is this even on by default, it barely even works

ok so i found that i can editor the tile assets to change them from Sprite to Grid collider type

the issue is i have a shitload of tiles, and looking through every single tile one at a time to figure out which ones should have specific collision types will take an obscenely long time

to me it seems like this editor and system is designed for really simple small tilesets, it's really poor for large tilesets

my tileset literally has 1123 tile assets, it would be a gigantic waste of time to look through these by hand

is there no way to change the collider type in the sprite editor? or any other editor window?

[cerulean parcel]

the first screenshot is what the sprite looks like normally and the second is when I press play, what is happening?

[modest cargo]

It's being rendered at the wrong size/resolution

You can change the gameobject size / sprite PPU / camera size to make sure it's exactly the right resolution
or learn how to use pixel perfect rendering

[solemn latch]

Or use a shader that can smoothly render pixel art, like Smooth Pixel.

[cerulean parcel]

where would I find this?

[solemn latch]

It is free on the asset store

[cerulean parcel]

how do I know what PPU to put? this part is confusing me

[hot rose]

here are my tilesets that I made myself (it's 16x16)

If you want to use them on your games credit me or put my nickname

[gilded wadi]

Anyone have any advice on this? Been a persistent issue for me for a long time that I haven’t found any clean solution for outside of manually setting up collision for my level outside of my tileset

[celest gulch]

How do you change the background grid size?
My pixel art characters are 16x16 pixels...however the background grid is way bigger than they are...how do I make the background grid also 16x16 pixels? My only other option is to scale 200+ pixel art images much larger so they appear to fit on the grid.

[gilded wadi]

Change the pixels per unit of the grid to match the pixels per unit of your sprites

You can change the pixels per unit of a sprite in the image’s import settings

[celest gulch]

awesome thanks...so I found the imgs import settings to change pixel per units

how do I change pixel per units of the grid?

[gilded wadi]

Iirc it’s a property of the tilemap

Ah, cell size in your grid is the property you want to change

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Grid.html

[celest gulch]

thanks so much fam!

I couldn't find anything on the internet about that lol

[gilded wadi]

I’ve been trying to solve my issue with tileset collision for months lmao

Like there are some tutorials that get into the basics for tileset stuff and 2D collision but they only cover super basic tilesets with very few assets

And the advice they provide scales very poorly when you have a tileset with over 1000 tiles

[celest gulch]

that doesn't sound fun lol

I keep putting a tile into my tileset thats the wrong size and it busts my entire tileset and makes everything hell until I remove the tile 😭

[gilded wadi]

This is what I’m running into

The auto generated collision is extremely imprecise and won’t work at all if I’m not using the built in unity physics for motion

Only solution for me atm is just to select every tile asset and force them to grid based instead of sprite based collision

[celest gulch]

oof that sounds horrible

[gilded wadi]

But then the tiny stupid colliders it puts on stuff are just full squares instead, which would require me to manually go through all of my assets to disable collision one tile at a time

[celest gulch]

eek

[gilded wadi]

Wouldn’t be too terrible to enable or disable collision on specific tiles if I could actually do it in the sprite editor instead of going by assets manually

[celest gulch]

surprised that isn't an option

[gilded wadi]

That’s what I’m trying to figure out now, if there’s a way to flat out disable a tile’s collision in the editor

They have a ‘custom physics shape’ editor but you can’t multi select and you can’t outright delete the collision with it

Surely I’m not the only one who’s had this issue before, does anyone have any advice for conveniently setting up collision for very large tilesets?

[river nest]

i use paint.net, and i use seperate layers to draw the limbs, and then i animate it. by animate i mean save the base as Base.pdn and then open Base.pdn in another tab, then position the limbs as you wish, and then flatten it, and save it as a new .PNG and name it as you wish.

[gilded wadi]

?

[river nest]

im just letting people know how i do my stuff

[gilded wadi]

I’ll rephrase my question in a more simple way I guess

Is there a way in the sprite editor to disable the collision of a single tile in a tileset

And is there a way in the sprite editor to preview the physics shapes of your entire tileset? I can only see the physics shapes of tiles that I define a custom physics shape for, and I can only see that physics shape when the tile is selected in the editor

This makes editing the physics shapes of a large tileset an absolute shit show

[gilded wadi]

How do I remove a tile’s physics shape in the sprite editor

[silver bane]

I think when you are adding tilemap colliders to your tilemaps it uses some algorithm to generate the collider

I don't think there are inherent physics shapes in any sprites

[silver bane]

If you want to add colliders for everything, but slopes, why not just draw them on another tilemap?

And then add tilemap colliders to the other tilemap, which will have every solid block

But tbh, this seems redundant for the game, do you even need these colliders? If you are going to draw colliders for the slopes, be it with polygon colliders or any other ones, then you already have a surface for your characters to stand on?

[gilded wadi]

The reason I need to delete physics shapes from my tileset is for the small raised pieces above some solid tiles

They’re purely cosmetic and shouldn’t have collision

If this doesn’t work out I’ll make a tileset specifically for collision that contains all of the slopes and shapes I need

Like this example from my sand

[silver bane]

Yes, I get that

My questions is why do you need colliders under the slopes?

Oh, nevermind, I got it

Yeah, I guess you could use another tilemap for the colliders

And then just cosmetically draw on top of them tiles that have these weird elements in their geometry

[gilded wadi]

Probably going to be my best bet in that case

[silver bane]

Otherwise, I don't think there is a way to do this. Tilemap colliders generate colliders automatically and I don't think there is any comprehensive way to edit them

If I am wrong, correct me please

[celest gulch]

can anyone help me understand why the transform on camera is -0.4 for Y....yet when Im ingame, transform.position.y = 0.6 to see the same "top" of camera?

[gilded wadi]

The sprite editor has a custom physics shape editor, but it doesn’t appear to have any way to remove the custom physics shape from a tile or to mark a tile as having no collision

Hopefully at some point this will be addressed I guess

As far as I know the only way to edit the collision for tiles in a tile palette is to edit their asset directly

[silver bane]

Yes

I also don't know of any other way

But that can cause a whole lot of other problems

[gilded wadi]

Pretty major oversight, I’m surprised I couldn’t find almost anyone else with similar issues searching online

[silver bane]

As I said, in your case it would be easier to draw cosmetics on one tilemap and physics on another

[celest gulch]

oh hey

thats what Im doing rn 😭

[gilded wadi]

Right, that’s my plan going forward now. Only for a prototype anyway, the actual game is being written in monogame, so we can set up collision however we feel is easiest for us

Just annoying unity doesn’t have a simple solution in editor I guess

[celest gulch]

agreed, just using multiple tilemaps seems simple enough...you have to do that anyway to render things on top of each other anyway right?

[gilded wadi]

Right

[silver bane]

Could you explain it a bit more? I am having trouble understanding

[silver bane]

Not necessarily

You can use custom sorting order axis

[celest gulch]

so in that screenshot you can see the camera is at -0.4y which appears to reach the bottom of the very top of the block aka top of the "stage"

when Im ingame

[silver bane]

Ye

[celest gulch]

ingame the camera needs to be 0.6y to reach the bottom of the very top of the block aka stage

confused why there is a difference

would have expected both to use the same value

[silver bane]

I am not sure

But

You should keep in mind that how your game looks in the editor play window might be different from how it will look when you maximize that window

[celest gulch]

ah dang, thanks

[silver bane]

It might be the case that your camera is just not covering everything right now

Try it with maximized play window and let me know if that solves the issue

I am curious to know too

[celest gulch]

how do you maximize play window?

[silver bane]

On top of the play window there is an option you can change

[celest gulch]

sweet thanks

[silver bane]

"focus on play"

change it to "maximize on play"

[gilded wadi]

You might also want to look into the pixel perfect camera unity package

Iirc it’s installed by default for the 2D template

[celest gulch]

I've never heard of that thanks

will look into it

but anyway @silver bane in fullscreen X was still correct

Y is 0.4 instead of -0.4 as would expect however

[silver bane]

Hmm

What do you use to control your camera?

[celest gulch]

you mean the script?

basically just follows the player but maxes out at a certain value

pretty sure its poorly coded but dont think it will cause problems

[silver bane]

It definitely can, but I will trust you

[silver bane]

And in the inspector TopY is set to 0.4?

@celest gulch

[celest gulch]

ya

[silver bane]

Now that is weird

[celest gulch]

ikr

[silver bane]

I think what's wrong here is the way you set up your conditionals

For example

What happens if this condition is not true, when your camera is near the borders of the level? if (deltaY > boundY || deltaY < -boundY)

Then the part of the code which is responsible for clamping the camera is not read by the engine

And hence it can go over

Also I would recommend you to use CineMachine

It is exactly what you are trying to implement here

It is free

It uses trigger colliders to confine the camera

Super easy to use

But regarding the code, I think this part is never running

[silver bane]

Nevermind, the code is working fine, I tested it myself.

No clue what the reason might be then, sorry

[silver bane]

Wait

Did you manually set your camera to this position?

Because it shouldn't even be at that position in theory.

Also I see that your scale is set to 1.4

That might also cause this

[celest gulch]

sweet thanks, I'll check it out

[celest gulch]

whatcha mean by that?

[celest gulch]

yep the scale is breaking it thanks, didn't expect it to be an issue tbh

my character is randomly running into something in the game image and can't move left further...any ideas?

[gilded wadi]

bruh

??????

how does unity suck so bad at this

it literally could not possibly be a more simple shape

[celest gulch]

lol

[silver bane]

Huh

That's weird

[celest gulch]

seems like it just zooms in the screen

[silver bane]

When I was testing it on my device scale was not affecting it

[celest gulch]

wack

[silver bane]

But if it solved the issue, that's cool

[celest gulch]

I think its cause the sacle is causing a slider on the side of my screen that I didn't notice

[silver bane]

When I was testing your code on my pc it was not possible for my camera to go beyond the topY

Even if I was to manually change the camera's position

[celest gulch]

yep that was the plan

[silver bane]

It would return to the topY instantly

So that's why it is weird

[celest gulch]

Scene view shows nothing that I should be colliding with either 😦

[silver bane]

Code shouldn't behave differently on different machines

That means there is another factor at play here

But yea, just use Cinemachine

It will save you alotta time

[celest gulch]

Its just what the TopY is set to that caps it

but wtf is my character hitting there

[silver bane]

I dunno, honestly

[celest gulch]

its only random and after I've jumped a few times

[silver bane]

Examine your code

If there is nothing in the scene, it is your code

Anyway, I will be going now

Good luck everybody

[celest gulch]

later! thanks for the help

[silver bane]

Np

[gilded wadi]

that'll do

😎

[celest gulch]

solid

[mild pewter]

Has anyone whose used AronGranberg A* pathfinding explain how GetTraversalCost is supposed to work? I think that's how you're supposed to put in logic about different tiles costing different amounts of movement points. (In my case I'm doing top-down hex tiles)

But the documentation is super unclear

Most relevant excerpt from documenation:

[silver bane]

What did you? Did you follow my advice or?

[gilded wadi]

Separate collision tileset

[celest gulch]

what do I have setup wrong here for tilecollider + composite collider?

my collider falls through the stage lol

freezing Pos x/y/z makes it appear to not fall through stage...however my player no longer collides with it

[lean estuary]

Tilemap has own collider combining tiles, unless you want to join multiple tilemaps you don't need composite. If something falls through completely then your code is not using proper physics methods and forcing something inside a collider. For pure physics controller with tilemaps you just need to set collision detection to continuous and it works fine.

[celest gulch]

that is good to know thanks...how do you use tilemap collider to combine tiles then?

didn't see that option earlier and people told me to use composite instead

[lean estuary]

Tilemap collider combines them itself

[celest gulch]

like tilemap collider 2d?

[lean estuary]

yes

[silver bane]

Does it?

[celest gulch]

thats not what Im finding unless I have something clicked wrong

[silver bane]

I think maybe you need to add a component to the grid

[lean estuary]

Tilemap has many optimizations handling tiles on background. It has full automated chunk handling system among other things.

The only anomaly is physics objects getting stuck on seams sometimes, but like I said, setting rigidbody2d to continuous fixes it

[silver bane]

Oh I was only wondering if tilemap collider 2d can automatically use multiple tilemaps to form colliders

[celest gulch]

as in the object that is hitting the seam set its ridigbody2d to continous?

like such?

[silver bane]

What is getting stuck in your case?

[celest gulch]

my player on a seam with that setup above 😭

[silver bane]

How do you move your player?

Do you manually change its transform pos?

Or do you use RB methods?

[lean estuary]

It might not actually combining them, but it manages colliders, might have some other optimization involved. (in any case they are treated as one for event purposes)

[celest gulch]

_inputHorizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); _currentVelocity = new Vector2(_inputHorizontal * _movespeed, _rb.velocity.y);

Input gathering inside update

the actual _rb.velocity = _currentVelocity;
is inside fixedupdate

[silver bane]

You shouldn't really set velocity directly

I am not sure if that's what is causing the problem

But it might be the case

You should use AddForce method

[celest gulch]

why is that?

wont I need to add forces in the opposite direction when player isn't pressing keys with AddForce to prevent it from feeling like player is on ice?

[lean estuary]

Because you are ignoring physics pushing object with that code and it ignores collider

[silver bane]

Yeah, you are adding velocity to an object manually

So when the player meets the wall, normally as a result of the physics calculations its velocity would be set to 0

But in your case you just put a number to it

[celest gulch]

gotcha

[silver bane]

That's how I think it works at least

[celest gulch]

yeah it will keep the velocity at 7...however the collider stops the movement

[silver bane]

You can change the drag

Oh and also there are modes to the AddForce method

[lean estuary]

If you want to move the object with a speed limit, you can do it in several ways properly. Either manipulate specific movement vector checking if it exceeds velocity you need and capping shortening specific vector direction. Or use drag to counteract mass+force

[silver bane]

Oh

[celest gulch]

I got the link anyway lol

[silver bane]

Ok

[celest gulch]

pfft

[silver bane]

xd

[celest gulch]

apparently gifs aren't alllowed

[silver bane]

I would imagine so

For the player movement I would use and Impulse Mode

It sets an impulse instantly

[lean estuary]

Just for reference. Object mass 1 with force 1 over zero friction with drag 1 will be moving 1 square per second. If I haven't mixed up anything.

[silver bane]

With Force mode the object will have an accelaration time

But, you know. You can try and just change transform position too

It might work for you

I think changing the velocity vector is literally the worst way, even worse than changing the transform

[celest gulch]

lol

why do you think that?

seems like the 1 downside is it could have velocity when it shouldn't

but everything otherwise is easier to do

dont have to worry about going over speed you want

[silver bane]

When you change transform pos it leaves the physics calculation at play

But when you change the velocity, you are manually affecting the physics

tbh, I am still figuring stuff out

So I might be very wrong

[celest gulch]

sounds right to me

something I might fix at some point if I run into issues

[lean estuary]

It depends. When you change velocity to abstract values they are overriding physics completely. Good use case for directly changing velocity is when you need to stop the object in space for example, smoothly, You would just multiply velocity by 0.01f and it will stop smoothly over several frames reducing movement for any vector direction naturally

Can do similar thing for character, but only reducing X direction movement

[silver bane]

But would it stop completely?

It will still have miniscule velocity

And will never reach 0, no?

[lean estuary]

You can have a threshold, when movement reaches magnitude 0.001f to reset it to Vector2.zero completely

[silver bane]

Well, yeah. I guess that works

Gotta look into this stuff later

Right now I am working with navmeshes

[celest gulch]

fyi, I was doing this before and was still running into the issue, putting on composite collider + rigidbody2d set to static fixed it 🙂
#🖼️┃2d-tools message

[still tendon]

hi, can anyone help me. im new to unity and im not even sure thats the right channel but ok. im trying to make a crosshair and it looks completely garbish. at first i tried to use to images and adjust them. then i tried to use image from the internet, still. pls help

[small berry]

what's wrong with it?
also, do you have it on a canvas, as UI? Or as a normal gameobject?

[still tendon]

As a canvas, I made 2 images the same height and with but opposite (like 2, 20) and it’s just that one of them looks so much bigger than the other

It doesn’t look like a normal crosshair

[small berry]

show your canvas settings

[small berry]

your canvas might have some weird settings that make it stretched

[still tendon]

Look here for example I know it’s small but still

[still tendon]

Then how do I change the settings

[small berry]

Click on the gameobject named Canvas
the one with the Canvas component on it
show me the inspector of that component

should be the parent gameobject of that crosshair

[obtuse ridge]

where can I download a circle mesh? I only see quad

[solemn latch]

Just make one

[obtuse ridge]

how? what software should I use?

[small berry]

Circle or torus?

If circle, paint for no transparency, paint.net or gimp for transparency
If torus, blender

[small berry]

Or find something on the internet

[obtuse ridge]

I just need a circle

[vernal needle]

somehow the vectors of some objects are not anywhere near the object they belong to so if i use move tool i cant see object while moving iot. is there a way to move moving vectors top the obkject they belong too?

[tribal briar]

heyo, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool similar to the line renderer that can utilise stuff like sprite borders, so capping off the line with a cap specified by the sprite's border settings - a bit like the spriteshape tool

[elfin sandal]

hard to picture what you want

[gilded wadi]

Sounds like a version of nine slicing to me

Might want to check unity’s docs for that

[small berry]

Either the mesh is on distant children of the gameobject, or you imported a mesh with a very distant origin
First case, just move the child objects closer
Second case, you need to fix the mesh in blender OR assign it to a childobject, and move it so that the mesh is at the correct place
OR you selected multiple objects by accident or sth
OR you selected an object with many distant children and the arrows are at the middle position of all child objects

[obtuse ridge]

I've create a circle mesh using blender but my problem is the touch is not accurate like if I touch from the left it goes to center

I don't know what's causing this kindly help

[vernal needle]

thank you

[celest gulch]

when I try and mess with my Scene this camera icon is in my face and annoying...anyway to disable it without just disabling the camera?

[celest gulch]

how do I make it so a boxcollider doesn't actually block collisions but just detects them?

is that what triggers do?

[elfin sandal]

Yea

[silver bane]

Zoom in more, I guess

It's a cinemachine icon, you can also try disable the cinemachine and not the camera

[modest cargo]

If you google for how to hide or change the size of gizmos you can find how to do just that

[silver bane]

Oh yeah, I think there is a button on top of the editor window

It has a checklist

U can just uncheck some of the stuff in there

[celest gulch]

sweet thanks 🙂

[lean coyote]

Yo

Which one is better

This ^

Or this ^

In another word, should I add black bordered in my game

When I make it full screen, everything is so big

[steel kayak]

how can i set the color of a 2D experimental light in script

[hushed cove]

does anyone know how to improve the play mode quality of my game? everything looks so pixelated, i attatched 2 picutres, 1 in play mode and 1 in scene

[silver bane]

I am not sure, but maybe you should change your project settings?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-QualitySettings.html

I really like your sprite, btw

[solemn latch]

Is the game view scaled?

[tranquil ice]

I have a weird issue with the pixel perfect camera, where I have two cameras with the exact same settings, yet the "Current Pixel Ratio" for both of them is wildly different
not sure why the orthographic sizes are different when they are both copies of each other (minus the texture it renders to, which is of the same size)

[still tendon]

Whats the best way to make a 2d sprite?

[modest cargo]

There rarely is a "best way" to do anything

[gilded wadi]

For me personally I prefer paint.net for static unanimated sprites, photoshop for large background images, and aseprite for animation

[still tendon]

k

[lusty aspen]

Is there an easy way to ensure that the Sprite Atlas doesn't encroach some sprites onto other sprites? Tight packing is turned off but there are some artifacts that bleed into other sprites

By guess is to make an invisible box around the sprite to make the atlas "think" that there is some data there, but hopefully there are easier alternatives

[elfin sandal]

I think u have to changr the damping setting

[lusty aspen]

if you mean padding, then no that doesn't work

8 is the max and it is still there. Even if padding does work, I don't think it really fixes the core of the problem as well

[eternal zinc]

Hey all, wasn't 100% sure where to post this. I am trying to have a rigged 2D character aim a gun at the mouse position. When I rotate the arm bones through code the sprite doesn't follow the bone, but when I rotate the bone through the scene editor the sprite rotates with the bone? I checked the weights and all looks good there.

[solemn latch]

Are you doing it in Update()?

If so, try using LateUpdate()

[eternal zinc]

Heya, nope doing it in LateUpdate

[solemn latch]

Show the code?

Are you sure you are moving the right transform?(the bone and not the renderer)

[eternal zinc]

Yep moving the actual bone transform. Will get the code in a sec

[solemn latch]

The spriteskin component isn't disabled? You have no other scripts/constraints affecting those transforms?

[eternal zinc]

I was noticing some strange behavior with the sprite itself as well. Everything works fine in the sprite editor but in the scene the bone weights aren't working. I'm wondering if it's something wrong with the sprite...

    private void LateUpdate()
    {
        Vector3 difLeft = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - LeftPivot.transform.position;
        Vector3 difRight = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - RightPivot.transform.position;

        difLeft.Normalize();
        difRight.Normalize();

        var rotationLeftZ = Mathf.Atan2(difLeft.y, difLeft.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        var rotationRightZ = Mathf.Atan2(difRight.y, difRight.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

        LeftPivot.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, rotationLeftZ - 110);
        RightPivot.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, rotationRightZ - 110);
    }

Here's a grab of the editor

And one with the game running.

[solemn latch]

Show the bone gizmos? Make sure that the bones are actually rotating

[solemn latch]

when I rotate the bone through the scene editor the sprite rotates with the bone? I'm confused, these seem contradictory.

[eternal zinc]

Sorry, the bone I am rotating through code works in the editor, but as I was trying different things the bone for the head stopped working

I'll get another grab. Had to do a reboot

Apologies for contradiction. Here you can see I can rotate Bone_BicepL (the one I'm trying to rotate with code) fine with the editor, but the head is no longer following with the spine 😦

When I rotate Bone_BicepL with code the sprites don't follow the rotation

I've painted the weights a dozen times now and hasn't resolved the issue

[eternal zinc]

Started with a clean project and if I disable the Animator it works. I removed changes to those bones in the idle animation, but doesn't seem to be enough. Will dig into it again another time.

[solemn latch]

weird.

[civic knot]

Anyone had to deal with multi-tile objects(like furniture) while using unity grid and tilemaps? How did you implement it?
I feel like I'd need to extend the tilemap and potentially the grid classes to get it working..?

[modest cargo]

Is the sprite shape "full rect" or "tight"?

[lusty aspen]

Yea thats what it was

[eternal zinc]

Dug further into my issue. I created a new animation controller and once I created a transition to another animation that had properties for those bones it stopped working. So I removed properties from the other animations that were modifying the arms, and now it's working as desired.

[meager whale]

the SpriteSkin gizmo fails to draw the 2d animation package rigged character's bones in the scene view, or it renders them behind the sprite or something.. the bones don't show up in scene view unless I turn off the visibility of the layer that the character is on, then the bone gizmos are visible (and the sprites are not as expected). This is on Unity 2022.1.20f1 - anyone seen this? Bug or do I have some settings wrong somewhere

[meager whale]

found the culprit.. we also have some characters still made with anima 2d - if there is such a character in the same scene, the 2d animation stuff bone gizmos don't work.. just disabling the anima characters in the scene makes it work

[ornate sand]

It's my first time doing using 2D Tileset and have encountered this. How do I prevent this from happening?

[warped rivet]

If your talking about the line check your tiles see if anyone of them have a weird line in the texture

[modest cargo]

Tilemaps should have margins between the tiles to prevent color bleeding
Expect at least one pixel of sampling inaccuracy

[ornate sand]

another question. so I got this asset here (https://maaot.itch.io/mossy-cavern) and I'm wondering if I need to set the Pixels Per Unit to 512x512?

[ornate sand]

and set the Grid by Cell Size to 512x512 as well?

[gilded wadi]

Not necessarily

Pixels per unit is exactly what it sounds like

How do you want to scale your pixels relative to a single unity unit

I think generally speaking unity2D is designed around a single unit being a single tile

But for some purposes it’s better to avoid this

For my own game, which uses 16x16 pixel tiles, I found it more beneficial to scale my imports at 1 pixel per unit, because it allows me to handle my character’s movement at the scale of pixels instead of tiles, which means less akward fractional values

As long as all of your assets share the same pixels per unit value, and your grids also share this value, you’ll be fine at any value that suits your own purposes

@ornate sand

Also good choice on that tileset, reminds me a lot of hollow knight. Very nice

[solemn latch]

Only if you want the tiles to be 1 meter x 1 meter.

[hard cosmos]

how do I scale the tile palette block down to the grid cell size?

[modest cargo]

Sprite pixels per unit in import settings

[gilded wadi]

Also, looks like you may have screwed up your input settings on the tileset itself

For pixel art you generally want to use “point” filtering, otherwise it will interpolate your pixels and make things look blurry

As for the grid size, like Spazi said, it’s your pixels per unit

Make sure you’re using a consistent pixel per unit value on your tileset and your grid

[modest cargo]

This only if all PPU values are 1 and you match the grid size to sprite pixels instead
You wouldn't change both
I recommend keeping grid size as 1 and changing sprite PPU to match

[celest gulch]

is there a way to set pixels per unit for everything that gets input

so I don't need to change each one individually when importing

[gilded wadi]

you can make presets iirc

[ember mantle]

Hello, everybody! We are trying to optimize our game, which uses Animation 2D and PSD Importer. Our users create their own characters, and these characters use the same UVs position for locating each part by skeleton and swapper. For each rendered part we have a texture that contains all the parts from these set, even if they are not used. Our question is: is there a way to rewrite these positions and create a new texture with this set of selected parts in runtime (and with skeleton and swapper respecting it)? An image will help you figure it out better our issue! Thanks in advance 🙂

[solemn latch]

If I understand what you're attempting correctly, that is basically what the sprite library and sprite atlases are for?

[ember mantle]

Yes, exactly, that but in runtime, because players modify textures by coloring it with the game as a part of the creation process (you can see this in the image above)

[solemn latch]

Can't you just color it in the shader, or with vertex colors?

[ember mantle]

No, that is not an option… people color their characters as it was a coloring book.

[bold dagger]

some pixels are missing how do I fix

[raven spear]

Hi, i made a 2d platformer where i have a player with some animations. I want to create multiple skins with the same animations for my player which would be selected before start playing and i cant find how to achieve this

[modest cargo]

You can't normally
Meaning the way you usually would do it is to have a keyframe that swaps the sprite renderer's referred sprite, but that reference cannot be swapped later while keeping the animation since it points to a specific asset
You'll probably need to create a new type of asset which holds a set of sprites a sprite renderer can show, each with an index
When animating gameobjects, you'd keyframe the change of that index instead of the sprite reference

This would allow you to swap the custom sprite list asset while keeping the animation intact

I wish such a basic thing didn't require an entirely custom system but what can you do

[raven spear]

How is it that complex even if i dont need to change the sprite while playing

But i will try

[raven spear]

You mean to create an asset for every skin with all the sprites for the animations inside?

[solemn latch]

In that case, I'd suggest making a custom shader that overlays the 'paint' colors in a render texture

[smoky sand]

Hi, i have this problem, the collisors have mid pixel of difference, pls help.
(Sorry my english)

[modest cargo]

You don't? I assumed your animations worked by changing the sprite on a keyframe basis, as they often do
If your animations don't change the sprite reference, you can perfectly well change the sprite references in code without any workarounds
Or if you use skinned 2D sprites, there's the Sprite Swap feature

[raven spear]

Im using an animator and i only need to tell the game which set of sprites to use before playing so it later plays the animations with these sprites

[modest cargo]

Then all you'd have to do is to change the referenced sprite
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SpriteRenderer-sprite.html

[raven spear]

And how i indicate with wich sprites it has to play the different animations?

[modest cargo]

Either I'm misunderstanding how your animation works, or you're misunderstanding how my suggestions work
Do your animation keyframes change the sprite reference?

[raven spear]

Can i dm you?

[modest cargo]

Can i dm you

[analog widget]

why does this look so off?

[hollow crown]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect@latest/index.html

[analog widget]

how can i make it so the sprites are affected by lght?

its greyed out right now

[tranquil ice]

would it be possible to make the lights also pixel perfect?
as while this smooth gradient is nice, I wonder if there is a way to make it more pixelized

[proven oriole]

I'm trying to use Lights in a 2d project using Unity 2020.1.15f1. When i place a light in the scene it doesn't do anything. Do i have to enable URP somewhere, or what am i missing here?

[elfin sandal]

you'd need to make your own 2D lighting

[modest cargo]

There is actually, you must be using pixel perfect camera component with "upscale render texture" enabled

[verbal holly]

Tool which makes parallax effect based on Gyroscope.

https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-Gyroscope-Parallax

[solemn latch]

That parallax looks backwards.

[little crypt]

Hey, anybody got some cool 2d tileset for prototyping a platformer ?

[solemn latch]

Nobody does.

[little crypt]

why?

[solemn latch]

Gremlins.

[little crypt]

shuush

[sick tide]

What do u guys use to do Ur pixel characters??

[abstract olive]

You were already directed to software like Aesprite. You can also just look online for popular tools, and find things like Paint, Gimp, Photoshop.

[tiny nest]

I have no idea why, my IK flips and reflips on its own

[tranquil copper]

I'm trying to delete the collision for tiles but can't find any way to

I read you can change collider type for individual tiles like in this pic

if I expand out my spritesheet and click any individual tiles I don't see these options anywhere tho

how do I find this?

all I get is this instead

[modest cargo]

With the collider type: sprite, the tilemap reads from the sprite sheet's physics shape which can be edited in the sprite editor

[tranquil copper]

Thanks for the reply! I know the sprite option lets you read from the physics shape, but my issue is I don't see that Collider Type pulldown even available if i click an individual tile

[modest cargo]

Ah, misread
Looks like you're inspecting an individual sprite, not a tile

[tranquil copper]

I assumed I press the > arrow on the sprite sheet to expand all the tiles within the sheet

what is the other way to look at individual tiles that I should be doing?

[modest cargo]

Those are the individual sprites the tile asset has the "sprite" reference for

[tranquil copper]

oooh wait

[modest cargo]

A tilemap with the tiles are a separate asset

[tranquil copper]

I see now, I completley forgot there was a separate area all of the tiles and palettes go to when making them

now I got it

thanks for making me realize 😄

[civic knot]

Dammit. Is it just me or the unity tilemaps implementation is bad? Especially for extension...

[elfin sandal]

They have scriptable tiles but doumentation is lacking

[civic knot]

Like, I can't even find a way to update the tiles data at runtime. You can't get tile instance data just from the Tilemap it seems. You need access to ITilemap, but that's only passed to Tile when the tile is to be placed.

Do I need to call RefreshTile or something?🤔

And most of the methods in Tilemap are not even virtual... How am I supposed to extend it?😅

[elfin sandal]

Theres a tilechangedata class

Idk if thats useful

[civic knot]

Yes, but it's only usable when you set the tile. Not if you want to update already existing tiles.

[elfin sandal]

Ah

[bright scaffold]

My sorting group component isn't working and won't override the pivot point, does anyone know a fix?

[modest cargo]

Which pivot point do you mean it to override?

[bright scaffold]

A pivot point for a player sprite with animations, so that I can use the "sort by pivot point" feature for a topdown game

But nothing happens when I create a new gameobject and make it a parent to the sprite and adjust it correctly

[wispy totem]

Hi, I'm using 2D Tilemap Extras to make 3D tilemaps using prefabs and weld them together later. I've figured out how to make custom rules through code, but I want to modify the RuleTile.TilingRule class itself (class for handling each list element under Tiling Rules, stuff like GameObject, Collider, Output, etc.) to add options for randomisation (of prefabs and rotations) using actual GameObjects, not sprites. I realise I can inherit the class, but how do I then use that in the RuleTileEditor class?

So far I've found out that I can override OnDrawElement(Rect rect, int index, bool isactive, bool isfocused) in RuleTileEditor and that it either inherits or uses logic from ReorderableList but am unsure where to go from here. Thoughts?

[cobalt shard]

Is there any way to turn tiles sideways in the tile palette editor? Because I'm trying to use this platform as a wall.

[tribal wave]

Hi guys, is it possible to make a sprite image with rounded corners in Unity? w/o photoshop

[gilded wadi]

unsure about the tile palette itself, but when editing tilemaps in your scene you can press [ and ] with/without shift to flip and rotate tiles

[fallow vector]

How do you align the tile map?

bc every time I start a 2D project, the map is through half a block.. and that triggers me slightly

idfk how to ss, but yeah that's my issue lol

[civic knot]

Mind sharing a screenshot of what you mean?

[fallow vector]

how do you take a ss on windows 10?

nvm think i got iut'