Lynda Unity 5 2D Building a Tile Map Editor with Jesse Freeman

Unity 5 2D: Building a Tile Map Editor

1h 27m Intermediate Dec 07, 2015

Learn how to extend the Unity 5 IDE with custom tools like this tile map editor. Investing the time to customize Unity's environment today will make game development much more efficient tomorrow. This simple extension will allow you to easily design large 2D tile maps by simply painting them into your GameObjects. Over the course of the project, Jesse Freeman will show you how to build a tile map class, a custom tile picker, and a tile brush. He'll also show how to customize Unity menus to make your new tools easy to reach.

Topics include:

Adding custom dropdown menus to Unity  

Building a custom inspector  

Creating a texture picker  

Drawing the tile map grid  

Creating a tile picker  

Scaling a Texture2D  

Creating a tile brush  

Moving the tile brush  

Erasing and clearing tiles  

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Unity   

Author:

Jesse Freeman