2D games in Unity Best Practice

theStoff

Hey, I don't know if this has been asked before but I didn't see another thread so I'll ask just in case. I'm trying to figure out the most optimal way to create sprite based games in Unity. I've in the past made planes and had sprites as textures placed in 3D space but there is the issue of requiring square images even for rectangular sprites.

My most recent consideration would be to do everything through the GUI system. Would this be an optimal way to do things or would this negatively effect game performance. Is there another better way?

parallel

Depends of course what your 2d requires, what style, how extensive etc. Using the current unity GUI though would be project suicide or maybe just a long learning experience. There are quite a few 2d tools on the asset store which cover the gamut of 2d gaming needs. (GUIs, splines, vector, sprites)

kio

option 1: wait for 4.3


option 2: buy 2d toolkit - its awesome.

theStoff

Thanks for the input guys, I'll look in to some 2D tools then (of course including 2d toolkit since it is apparently awesome ).

Elyaradine

The 4.3 beta is out, in case you want to give that a try.

*removed link as unity beta access is not public* -rooster

spacefrog

Elyaradine wrote: »

The 4.3 beta is out, in case you want to give that a try.
***LINK REMOVED***

Those are private links you are sharing here. And whereever you got that link from it's pretty outdated and most important: YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SHARE ! So i would recommend to edit/remove your post !

Elyaradine

Oh? I got that link from another public forum. I figured if it was meant to be private, it'd be behind some password-protected thing somewhere, so I didn't know. My bad.