So my last post from 2014 December kinda exploded after the PokemonGo craziness and I decided to fix&improve it further. I’ll try to make a little blog post series on this one, starting with fixing/refactoring the old sample and then moving further and adding character movement, dynamic tile loader etc etc. I’m planning to have a proper Go clone when I’m done.

I’ll keep the post short as it’s quite time-consuming for me to write these as I’m still not feeling that comfortable writing in english (it’ll get there) but I’ll try to explain what’s going on as much as I can. But before we start, especially if you haven’t seen the old post, OpenStreetMap in Unity3D, I suggest checking that out first. It’ll be much easier/clear after that.

So first of all, you can get it here; PokemonGo clone – Mapzen sample and I’ll try to explain going over that here. Now extract the package, open scene file “BasicLoader” and run it.

You should get something like this. Well it’s looks kinda ugly yea, but we’ll go into technical stuff before eye candy.

There are two gameobjects in the scene,

First one is the camera, which is pretty much standard camera with just one script (StrateCam) attached. It’s a quite handy little Orbit / RTS cam script.

Second one is “World” and that’s where all the magic happens.

Actually World script is just an entry / interface script. There is no logic or anything behind it, it’s just a container and starting point for the real thing; “TileManager”.

TileManager is the script responsible for handling everything about TMS tiles. For now, it just loads and created tiles but in the future posts, we’ll do a lot more here, like dynamically loading/destroy tiles depending on player position etc.

Tile script does pretty much everything (that sounds quite wrong, I know. Might refactor that later). It loads the data (this should be a service, bad idea doing it here), creates tile and uses BuildingFactory and RoadFactory classes to create building and road meshes/gameobjects respectively. As I said I’ll probably do some refactoring here but it’s quite straight forward for now. Load Data, create tile, load map image if necessary, create buildings create roads.

BuildingFactory and RoadFactory, are two simple factories for creating meshes and gameobjects given json objects and a relative position (owner tile center). We’ll add extra stuff like, fancy building model construction or curvy roads here. There are also some temporary (read wrong) stuff in there like using the first corner of a building/road as a unique identifier. Yes it’s wrong but somehow I couldn’t get Mapzen id’s to work for me couldn’t get my json parser to parse id’s properly , I’ll look into that later on as well.

And that’s pretty much it! Quite simple for now but I’ll be adding much more soon. Character movement and dynamic tile handling should be next two big things.

Hope you guys like it, let me know if you have any questions or whatever (I’ll be playing PokemonGo around),

Cheers, Baran

Download PokemonGO Clone using Mapzen Api Project

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