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What are the best 2D plug-ins for Unity3D?

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2D Toolkit vs SmoothMoves vs Puppet2D

 vs ex2D vs Sprite Manager 2 vs Uni2D vs Sprite Manager

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 Deprecated

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 Includes source code

No need to pay more to get access to the source code.
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 Good documentation

The documentation for the toolkit is well written and there are video tutorials as well as an active community.
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 Great for sprite sheet animation

Allows creating atlases and set up the animation quickly in 2D Toolkit’s editor.
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 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.
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 Built to work inside Unity

2D Toolkit is an editor extension so users don’t have to leave the Unity engine for tile mapping.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit.
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 Create Atlases within the tool

Create sprite sheets for tiles to save draw calls and to keep tilesets organized.
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 No skeleton-based animation

Although a great solution for sprite sheet animations 2D Toolkit does not natively support skeletal based animation.
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 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.
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