The Basics

Starting a New Project

Setting up Project

Import the following packages into unity:

• Universal Render Pipeline
• Cinemachine
• TextMeshPro
• Unity 2D Package

<aside> 💡 If you don’t want to use the Universal Render Pipeline you will need to remove the shadow generation from the tile engine, which is handled inside the LevelManager.cs program.

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Next import the latest version of the Tile Engine into your project.

Inside the tile engine folder there should be a folder called scenes, add the following scenes in order to Scenes in Build in Build Settings:

• Main Menu
• New Game
• Load Game

How to find example project

All files included with the tile engine are inside the tile engine folder. To access the example scenes, locate /Scenes folder inside the tile engine.

Creating Items

To create an new item for the game you will need to create a new item data file by Create/Inventory/Item in the project folder. Once you assign all the necessary values to the new item, you must place the item inside your GameData file. The one provided in the example project is located inside /TileEngine/Data directory. We do this so that all scripts inside the game are aware that the item exists.

<aside> 💡 If you want an item to be able to place down a block, you can assign a tile to the Item and it will be automatically working in the game.

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