Hey, I would like to port the asset to Godot at some point, but I’m not sure about the current asset ecosystem and whether users are willing to pay for assets. I’m still waiting for the official Godot asset store to be released. Unfortunally, the efforts would be probably too big for me to port it and maintain it just for fun.

Hey, I’m not sure what center of a room means here because rooms can have various shapes so it might be harder to compute the center. But what you can do is, for example, get all the floor tiles that are in the room and you can spawn something on them. If you wanted to do that, you’d have to create a post-processing task which gets an instance of the generated level. From there, you can get a list of all the rooms in the level (represented by the RoomInstanceGrid2D class). Inside that, you have the RoomTemplateInstance property which is a reference to the prefab from which the room was made. There you can find the Floor tilemap and get all the tiles inside it. You can use these floor tile positions as a base for your spawn behaviour.

Does that help?

Hello! If I understand your use case correctly, you are randomly picking a random Input setup class and you want to get the computed level description. As this is not a mainstream use case, I would propose the following solution. Instead of using the DungeonGeneratorInputBaseGrid2D class directly, make a child class instead, something like MyCustomInputBaseGrid2D and on this class, you can add a custom public MyGetLevelDescription() method that calls the protected method. Then, in your RiftGeneratorInputSetup, instead of referencing DungeonGeneratorInputBaseGrid2D, you would reference MyCustomInputBaseGrid2D so that you could call MyGetLevelDescription() directly.

Let me know if it helps.

Hello and sorry for the unpleasant surprise! Last week, I finally decided to get rid of the alpha/beta status of Edgar and released an official “2.0.0” version, and also was able to release it on the Unity Asset store.

The good news is that right now, the asset is in a “new releases” sale on the Unity Asset Store for $20, you can find it here.

Let me know if that works for you!

Hello, yes, I plan to release it on the Unity asset store. I cannot guarantee anything but I want it to be there in less than a month.

Hello! I think that the problem might be caused by the fact that tilemaps are merged into a set of large shared tilemaps after a level is generated. So if you add some custom components to your room template tilemaps, they’ll be lost after you generate a level. Please take a look at this docs page. You can use the FromExample mode to tell the generator which tilemap structure you want.

It seems like the generator thinks that there is a room template without any tiles. Unfortunately, the exception doesn’t contain the room template name, which I should fix in the future.

However, when you open a room template prefab, you should see a status panel in the top-left corner saying whether the room template is valid or not (if you don’t see the status panel, make sure there is the Room Template Settings component attached and that you allow gizmos from that component). If the room template is not valid, there should also be a red warning in the Room Template Settings component. So you should be able to find the wrong room template quite easily.

Let me know if you need any additional help!

Hello, I don’t think that it’s easily possible to save a scene during runtime (not just in Edgar but in Unity in general). So I think your best option is to just freeze the current level (stop enemy movement, etc.) and hide it, then show (or additively load) the challenge level and when it’s completed, destroy the challenge level and unfreeze/show the original level.

For example, if you had the whole level inside a single game object, you could probably just disable it for a while, show another game object with the challenge level, and then go back to the original level.

But I don’t have any personal experience with this.

Hello, unfortunately, I have no experience with 2d lights and shadow casters in Unity. But maybe one thing that could help would be to not have these shadow casters attached to the Wall tilemap in individual room templates but rather have them attached to the shared tilemaps where all the room templates are merged into.

After a level is generated, I find all the tiles in individual room templates and combine them into a set of shared tilemap layers. That means that walls from all room templates are merged into a single large tilemap layer. What I propose is to not add shadow casters to walls in room templates but rather add them to the shared tilemaps where corridor connections are already processed. You can first try that manually: generated a level and then inspect the game object in the scene hierarchy, find the shared Walls tilemap layer and add the shadow casters.

I’m not sure how much experience with Edgar you have so feel free to ask additional questions. I may also try these shadow casters myself if you give me some additional instructions on how to do that.

Hey, this should be now fixed in the hotfix release. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hey! There’s a “Material” field in the Post-process config in the generator component. Please make sure to assign the correct material there. It seems like Unity has sometimes problems with choosing the correct default material.

Hey! Unfortunately, there’s a quite large codebase already implemented for Unity so I think it’s not really possible to reimplement and maintain it for the Game maker studio 2.

Hey! I’m glad you like the asset.

I’m not sure I understand what exactly are you trying to achieve. As far as I know, the fog can work with 2D lighting. Can you please provide some more details? Are you using the builtin render pipeline or LWRP/URP? Which Unity version do you use? Can you show me an illustration of what you want to achieve and what is the current behaviour?

If you want to customize the output of the generator, the best way to do so is with a custom post-processing logic. You’ll have to implement the Run method which will be called after a level is generated. This method receives an instance of the GeneratedLevel class on which you can call the GetSharedTilemaps() method to get all the tilemaps from the level. When you have the tilemaps, you can find the ones that need a different layer and change that layer.

Let me know if that helps.

Hey! Have you changed anything in the Gungeon example? Because I tried an unmodified version a moment ago and it worked without any problem.

Hey! As per documentation, there are no colliders in the Isometric 1 example, but it should be ready to add your own colliders. I haven't developed any isometric game myself, so basically, all my knowledge comes from this article.  If you look at the "Adding Collisions" section, you can see that they're adding an additional tilemap layer that only describes the colliders in the level and you can hide it afterward. The code that you pasted only creates the collider tilemap layer and adds collider components to it - it does not add any tiles in that layer. That means, that after you generate a level, you'll see the Collider layer in "Generated Level -> Tilemaps" but you won't see any actual colliders there. What you can do is to go to individual room templates and populate the Colliders layer with tiles on places where you want the colliders to be. And after you generate a level, you'll see all the collider tiles from individual room templates merged together in the Colliders layer.

There seems to be one oversight from in the last version of the asset.  The "Tilemap Layers Structure" in the Dungeon Generator should be set to "Custom" as there's a custom layers handler (from which you pasted the code). So if you set it to "Custom", you can open the "Tilemap Layers Handler" scriptable object in the folder with the example and there you can switch "Hide Colliders Layer". If you set it to false, the Colliders layer will automatically be hidden in generated levels.

Let me know if that helps or if you have any other questions!

Hey! You can easily access the layer in a custom post-processing task.  The "Run" method receives a "GeneratedLevel" object and on that, you can call the "GetSharedTilemaps()" method and it gives you only the shared tilemaps for the whole level. In this list of tilemaps, there's only a single one with the name "Walls" - the one that you're looking for.

Let me know if that helps.

Can you please tell me more about your issue? What is the expected behaviour and where is the problem?

Hey!

Generation in editor:
Yes, it's possible. The generator component has a button which you can click in editor to generate a level. 

Locks and keys:
It depends on what you want to achieve. There is no explicit support for locks and keys, but the generator should give you access to everything you need to implement that. Doors are implemented in examples scenes Example 1 (you press a button to open a door) and Enter the Gungeon (doors are closed when you enter a room so you have to fight with enemies, and also one way doors that have to be opened from a specific side).  Now it depends if your locks and keys should be static (lock positions are fixed for each level graph, different level graphs can have different lock positions) or dynamic/procedural (you want to randomize lock positions in individual level graphs). I'll assume static locks but the other approach should also be possible. For static locks, you can create a custom class to represent connections between individual rooms in a level graph. In that class, you can add an isLocked field to describe if the connection should be locked or not. If you plan to have different keys opening different locks, you can also add a key field that specifies which key opens the lock.  After you generate a level, you can access this information and setup your locked doors game objects (for example in a custom post-processing task).

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Hey! Can you please provide some details? What exactly are you trying to achieve and what is preventing you from doing so?

Hey! It should be relatively simple. When you spawn enemies in a room, keep track of which enemies you spawned, for example in an array. Now in your room manager class, you want to have a method e.g. void OnEnemyDefeated(GameObject enemy) that will be called when an enemy is defeated. Inside the method, you will remove the enemy from the array of all enemies that were spawned in the room. And if there are no enemies left in the array, that means that there are no living enemies in the room, so you can open the doors. The last thing to handle is calling the method when an enemy is defeated. I presume that you have access to the health of each enemy so if the health of the enemy equals to 0, you call the OnEnemyDefeated method with the enemy that was defeated. 

Let me know if you have any additional questions!

Hey! Do you have an example of what would you like to achieve? The generator currently works with 2D tilemaps. You define room templates as 2d tilemaps, give it to the generator, the generator computes how to position individual rooms and then produces a level that is again composed of 2D tilemaps. I don't have much experience with 3D in Unity so I need you to help me imagine what it should do and I how would you want to use the tool.

Hey! Can you please explain what do you mean by "the editor file"? This tool is a Unity package that you can import into your Unity project and do everything inside the Unity editor. None of the files should be used outside of Unity.

I'd be fine with giving you a key on the Unity asset store. Unfortunately, Unity allows me to give only a very limited number of keys and is probably generally not happy with giving keys to people that purchased the asset elsewhere. So I'd recommend waiting for the asset store release if you want to access the plugin from there.