Tilemap and 2D pathfinding, what good plugins on the store?

Hello there.

I’d like to do a Red Alert like RTS on Unity, and for that I need a good Tilemap editor/renderer and a good grid pathfinding script. What duet of tilemap/A* plugins could I use from the store? I can’t decide on one as they are expensive and often gives way too much features than I need. :slight_smile:

The plugins needs to be compatible with Unity 4.6

Simply A* for pathfinding and 2d Toolkit for tilemap building. They are both pretty easy to use. (Although 2d Toolkit is kinda spendy, but much better than it’s competitors, like SpriteManager2).

Is 2d Toolkit tilemap tools really over the competitors? It does lots of other stuff and I’d rather have a really specialized and powerfull package than a versatile one.

Well, i’m sure there are others that have different features, but if you are looking to have a more specialized tile map editor, I would create the TMX in something like"Tiler" or a similar plug-in, then use the 2d toolkit to implement it. That way, you will get best of both worlds because 2d toolkit is great at working with TMX files.

Here is the 2d toolkit’s usage script:

http://www.unikronsoftware.com/2dtoolkit/doc/2.5/tilemap/reference.html

As you can see, there are many options and you can even import tmx’s and modify then etc…

Eventualy, I took both of them. Thank you Sickwitit!

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I’m happy with 2D Toolkit, but A* seems to be for 3D scenes, isn’t there a simpler 2D pathfinder? Else I’ll try to do mine.

A* Pathfinding by Aron Granberg is excellent for pathfinding, and the examples he includes are great. A* Pathfinding Project I use it for 2D but it works in either environment quiet well.