My project will be a 2d hex turn-based strategy game.
Units will be simple .png sprites (not animated) that will move from one hex tile to an other.
My first question is, do I need any 2d tool (like 2d toolkit or ex2d) to achieve this or I can do it with the tools that Unity offers? Do you suggest to use iTween for the movement?
Do you have any suggestions of how to put my .png files on the tiles of the the hex board dynamically with code? Can I have, for example, a link to the .png file in my Unit class and then assign it to a generic prefab and then put that prefab in the board?
You can place a 2D camera in your scene (Simply switch perspective to orthographic in camera settings) then place the 2D Sprite on a plane or cube. Change the cube material settings to Transparent>Cutout>Diffuse. This will mean only the texture will be visible, not the rest of the mesh. To make the sprite clearer than it is when imported you can click on it in the project tab and change the import settings. Change the filter mode to “Point”. This will give a crisp image.
To use code to assign textures to the tiles you could create a texture variable in your code and have a look at how to change the materials texture to the one you want. Or alternatively use code to adjust offset values and have a sprite sheet.
To move the sprites you could simply use transform.translate.