Introducing
The Slant team built an AI & it’s awesome
Find the best product instantly
Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to Safari
Try it now
4.7 star rating
0
What is the best alternative to ex2D?
Ad
Ad
2D Toolkit
All
9
Experiences
Pros
8
Cons
1
Top
Pro
Good documentation
The documentation for the toolkit is well written and there are video tutorials as well as an active community.
See More
Top
Con
Doesn't integrate with Unity's Sprite system
2D Toolkit provides a completely proprietary sprite implementation. Though it can be used alongside Unity's 2D systems, the two are completely separate and require different code to utilize.
See More
Top
Pro
Includes source code
No need to pay more to get access to the source code.
See More
Top
Pro
Pixel-perfect camera
Pixel games in the style of 8 or 16 bit systems need to have each pixel uniform on the screen which 2D Toolkit supports with a camera component.
See More
Top
Pro
Add colliders in the atlas editor
Choose from either a box, sphere, or mesh collider that will output as either a 3D or 2D collider in Unity.
See More
Top
Pro
Create different resolutions of atlas
2D Toolkit allows for different sizes of atlas from 1x, 2x, or 4x which can be changed depending on platform resolution.
See More
Top
Pro
Built to work inside Unity
2D Toolkit is an editor extension so users don’t have to leave the Unity engine for tile mapping.
See More
Top
Pro
Create Atlases within the tool
Create sprite sheets for tiles to save draw calls and to keep tilesets organized.
See More
Top
Pro
Supports the Tiled TMX Format
Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit.
See More
Hide
See All
Experiences
Get it
here
29
7
PlayMaker
All
5
Experiences
Pros
4
Cons
1
Top
Pro
Easy to use
You'll need to put more time in learning Unity + Playmaker compared to something like GameSalad. But once get hang of it and familiarize yourself with it's possibilities. It's quite easy to use.
See More
Top
Con
Limited tutorials
There are not a lot videos with Playmaker tutorials. Official text tutorials are also quite limited. Even not every action has a description on an official wiki.
See More
Top
Pro
Elegant state-based visual scripting
Instead of a single "if this then that" event list which can become very cluttered beyond the most basic behaviors, PlayMaker gives each object a list of states where only certain events are triggered, and performing an action also changes state. This allows for a clean, simple visual representation which helps break complex logical structures into smaller pieces, making them easier to understand.
See More
Top
Pro
Powerful
It basically can do same things as scripting in Unity.
See More
Top
Pro
Third party plugins support
A lot of third party plugins have support for Playmaker. Playmaker team also invest time to add support for a lot of third party plugins.
See More
Hide
Get it
here
3
0
Puppet2D
All
4
Experiences
Pros
3
Cons
1
Top
Pro
Mesh Deformation
Instead of having to change sprites to bend legs or other joints mesh deformation changes the mesh shape based on joint weights to bend and move.
See More
Top
Con
Forced editor scaling causes problems
Puppet2D adjust the scaling of bones in the editor for display purposes, which results in unintended behavior if other objects use a bone as a parent.
See More
Top
Pro
Inverse Kinematic bones
Bones will move and rotate reacting to the position of the rest of the skeleton. The animator does not have to animate each part of a joint but rather have it follow realistically. Also can be used for ragdoll effects based on physics.
See More
Top
Pro
Built on top of Unity’s animation system
Mecanim and state machines work natively since Puppet2D builds on top of Unity’s built in animation system.
See More
Hide
Get it
here
7
2
SmoothMoves
All
4
Experiences
Pros
2
Cons
2
Top
Pro
PlayMaker integration
Developers echo17 provide Playmaker action scripts for SmoothMoves.
See More
Top
Con
Bone hierarchy is not collapsible
When working with a complex skeleton, the entire tree is always visible. There is no way to hide bones under their parents.
See More
Top
Pro
Texture swapping and tinting at runtime
Animations can be re-skinned in several ways, entirely on the fly.
See More
Top
Con
Unity Middleware
SmoothMoves is not a stand-alone application. It runs entirely within the Unity Editor, and is not compatible with other engines.
See More
Hide
Get it
here
10
4
Built By the Slant team
Find the best product instantly.
4.7 star rating
Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to Safari
Try it now - it's free
{}
undefined
url next
price drop