What are the best Unity3D plug-ins?

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What are the best Unity3D plug-ins?

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Best Unity3D plug-ins	Price	Languages	Dev platforms
-- NGUI	-	-	-
-- 2D Toolkit	-	-	-
-- PlayMaker	-	-	-
-- Sprite Manager 2	-	-	-
-- Uni2D	-	-	-

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score 14 · Answer 1

NGUI

Top Pro

Works smoothly

NGUI is a great tool if you need to create a complex and scalable interface quickly. Besides the ease of use, it provides stable performance, with no hidden problems to set you back. See More

score 1 · Answer 2

2D Toolkit

Top Pro

Includes source code

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

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

Great for sprite sheet animation

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

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

Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit. 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

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score 3 · Answer 3

PlayMaker

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

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score 2 · Answer 4

Sprite Manager 2

Answer 5

Sprite Manager

Answer 6

2D ColliderGen

Answer 7

Little Vector Library

Top Pro

Works on anything

Top Pro

Easy to use

score 2 · Answer 8

11 Options Considered

My Recommendation for NGUI

My Recommendation for NGUI

Works smoothly

My Recommendation for 2D Toolkit

My Recommendation for 2D Toolkit

Includes source code

No skeleton-based animation

Good documentation

Doesn't integrate with Unity's Sprite system

Pixel-perfect camera

Great for sprite sheet animation

Built to work inside Unity

Add colliders in the atlas editor

Create different resolutions of atlas

Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create Atlases within the tool

My Recommendation for PlayMaker

My Recommendation for PlayMaker

Easy to use

Limited tutorials

Elegant state-based visual scripting

Powerful

Third party plugins support

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager 2

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager 2

My Recommendation for Uni2D

My Recommendation for Uni2D

My Recommendation for ex2D

My Recommendation for ex2D

My Recommendation for RageSpline

My Recommendation for RageSpline

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager

My Recommendation for Sprite Manager

My Recommendation for 2D ColliderGen

My Recommendation for 2D ColliderGen

My Recommendation for Vectrosity

My Recommendation for Vectrosity

My Recommendation for Little Vector Library

My Recommendation for Little Vector Library

Works on anything

Easy to use

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My Recommendation for PlayMaker + Unity3D

My Recommendation for PlayMaker + Unity3D

My Recommendation for AppProtect

My Recommendation for AppProtect

My Recommendation for Unity3d

My Recommendation for Unity3d

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