Grid Framework version 1.5.0 released

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Grid Framework version 1.5.0 has been approved by the Asset Store team. This version brings a great new feature for anyone interested in making isometric 2D games: shearing. Shearing allows you to slant a rectangular grid's axes without having to rotate the grid. Up until now the only way to achieve the isometric look was to rotate the grid or the camera in 3D space, but in 2D games the camera has to be perpendicular to the image plane and thus the grid as well. Now all you need to do is just set the shearing of the axes and you're good to go, everything else stays the way it was.

The shearing is stored in a new type called Vector6 that works very much like Unity's own Vector3. The Vector6 class resides in the new GridFramework. Vectors name space to prevent name collision with other custom types or a possible future official Vector6 type from Unity.

The GFBoolVector3 and GFColorVector3 classes have also been moved to that namespace and had their "GF" prefix stripped away. If you used them in your own scripts strip away the prefix and place a using directive at the start of your script, otherwise you have to do nothing.

Here is the full change log:

Introducing shearing for rectangular grids.

  • New: Rectangular grids can now store a shearing field to distort them.

  • New: Custom Vector6 class for storing the shearing.

  • API change: The odd herringbone coordinate system has been renamed to upwards herringbone. The corresponding methods use the HerringU pre- or suffix instead of HerringOdd; the old methods still work but are marked as depracated.

  • API change: The enumeration GFAngleMode has been renamed AngleMode and moved into the GridFramework namespace.

  • API change: The enumeration GridPlane has been moved into the GridFramework namespace. It is no longer part of the GFGrid class.

  • API change: The class GFColorVector3 has been renamed ColorVector3 and moved into the GridFramework.Vectors namespace.

  • API change: The class GFBoolVector3 has been renamed BoolVector3 and moved into the GridFramework.Vectors namespace.

  • Enhanced: Vectrosity methods without parameters can now pick between size and custom range automatically.

  • Fixed: Vectrosity methods were broken in previous version.

  • Updated the documentation.