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Support / Re: alignment in tk2d UI?

« on: July 20, 2014, 08:18:36 pm »

Can you go into more details on your first paragraph? I'm not quite following. What does your usual object hierarchy look like? How does that help you center objects?

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Support / alignment in tk2d UI?

« on: July 18, 2014, 08:10:38 pm »

I'm trying to make some production-quality UI with tk2d and struggling a bit.

I like the anchoring of the layout containers very much, but I'm struggling to do simple stuff like centering and aligning element.

For instance, I have a large panel, with a background sliced sprite. Inside that panel is a button, with a UI item at the top level. With the UI item, the button's anchor is in the top right:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c78x2in3pfbck8d/Screenshot%202014-07-18%2020.08.55.png

I want this button to be central to the containing panel. Because of where the anchor is, I can't just child the button to the panel and set the X value to 0. I have to just do it by hand.

I'm not expecting Keynote-levels of alignment snapping, but is there some way for me to line this up reliably? Am I missing something?

Cheers.

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Support / Re: Best practices for large scrolling terrain?

« on: October 22, 2013, 11:26:59 pm »

So I got pretty far using a scriptable static batcher: http://www.2dtoolkit.com/docs/latest/advanced/scripting_static_sprite_batcher.html

There's a hard limit of 128x128 on these. Via twitter Unikron told me to aim for ~20x20 batches for best performance, but ofc YMMV, always profile this type of partitioning.

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Support / Re: Best practices for large scrolling terrain?

« on: October 22, 2013, 07:14:01 pm »

I think a corollary question then is, how do you manage rendering large dynamic or procedural worlds in tk2d? A gameobject per on-screen tile with a custom back end managing the current sprites seems like it's not going to batch well, especially with a smooth-scrolling camera.

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Support / Best practices for large scrolling terrain?

« on: October 22, 2013, 06:50:00 pm »

Hi folks,

If you wanted to develop a top-down RPG, like Zelda or Realm of the Mad God, with tk2d, what would be the best approach to rendering terrain?



I'd like to use the tilemap editor to place a few items of interest in a sparse world, and leave large gaps. These gaps would be filled in at game start with one of a selection of grass sprites. Obviously the whole terrain could then be statically batched. Instantiating a prefab for each empty tile in the world is unfeasible. Even one per tile on the screen, and then scrolling as the camera moves, is too much with a sufficiently zoomed-out camera! At a lower level, I could just decide on sprites at draw time and batch them appropriately, but this is Unity and I'm not allowed to do that.

Any help much appreciated.