ex2D vs 2D Toolkit

The atlas font editor that comes with ex2D is fantastic and makes it very easy to manage and modify the fonts in your project. Key features:

• Support fonts export from BMfont and Hiero.
• Multiple fonts can be put together in one big texture atlas to save draw calls.
• Fonts can also be put together with other texture sprite to save draw calls.
• Manage fonts easily in the atlas editor.

Quickly clip sprite, text and other sprite type in a rectangle

The UX for editing sprite animations with ex2D is simply better then any of the alternative frameworks. You can:

• Scale and scroll enabled time line editor.
• Move, add, remove and insert Frame Element by dragging and dropping them directly.
• Adjustable single frame length to make animation creating more versatile.
• Support adding animation events directly in the timeline editor.
• Preview animation result in the editor.

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

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

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.

Choose from either a box, sphere, or mesh collider that will output as either a 3D or 2D collider in Unity.

2D Toolkit allows for different sizes of atlas from 1x, 2x, or 4x which can be changed depending on platform resolution.

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

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

Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit.