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

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

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Best 2D plug-ins for Unity3D	Price	Last Updated
-- 2D Toolkit	-	Jun 2, 2021
-- SmoothMoves	-	Mar 9, 2020
-- Puppet2D	-	Nov 17, 2019
-- ex2D	-	Jul 22, 2014
-- Sprite Manager 2	-	Jul 22, 2014

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ex2D

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2D Toolkit

Top Con

Deprecated

Top Pro

Includes source code

No need to pay more to get access to the source code. See More

ExcellentChalchiuhtlicue's Experience

This asset is deprecated. This list is laughably out of date. See More

Top Con

No skeleton-based animation

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

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

Great for sprite sheet animation

Allows creating atlases and set up the animation quickly in 2D Toolkit’s editor. 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

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 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

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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. See More

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Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit. See More

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Create Atlases within the tool

Create sprite sheets for tiles to save draw calls and to keep tilesets organized. See More

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SmoothMoves

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Sprite Manager 2

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

7 Options Considered

2D Toolkit

My Recommendation for 2D Toolkit

My Recommendation for 2D Toolkit

Deprecated

Includes source code

No skeleton-based animation

Good documentation

Doesn't integrate with Unity's Sprite system

Great for sprite sheet animation

Pixel-perfect camera

Built to work inside Unity

Create different resolutions of atlas

Add colliders in the atlas editor

Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create Atlases within the tool

SmoothMoves

My Recommendation for SmoothMoves

My Recommendation for SmoothMoves

Puppet2D

My Recommendation for Puppet2D

My Recommendation for Puppet2D

ex2D

My Recommendation for ex2D

My Recommendation for ex2D

Sprite Manager 2

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager 2

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager 2

Uni2D

My Recommendation for Uni2D

My Recommendation for Uni2D

Sprite Manager

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager

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