🎽Formations
List of formations
Here you can find names and behaviours for each provided formation.
Rectangle
Positions units in a filled rectangle. Configurations:
Column count
Unit spacing
Center units (when last line is not full)
Pivot in center (flag)
Rectangle Border
Positions units along the rectangle edges. If there are too few units, then a line is formed.
Configurations:
Unit spacing
Aspect Ratio
Pivot in center (flag)
When there is a left over unit, it will be added to back side of the formation (front and back might be uneven in unit numbers)
Triangle
Positions units in a filled triangle formation. Configuration:
Unit spacing
Center units (when last line is not full)
Pivot in center
Triangle Border
Positions units in a triangle formation. Configuration:
Unit spacing
Pivot in center (flag)
When units cannot be divided by 3, there are some leftovers. When there are 2, they are added on left and right side, when there is one, it is added to the back side of the triangle formation.
Circle
Positions units within a circle with fill. While this implementation is fairly simplistic, filling a circle can be quite a computational heavy and complex task. For this the formation must be adjusted manually with parameters to fit different unit counts:
Outer radius
Unit spacing
When max radius is not large enough for unit count and their required spacing, remaining units will be placed in its center.
Computed Circle
Uses the same calculation as the base Circle, but uses iterations to fit best fit. Search is controlled by:
Minimal radius (starting radius)
Maximal iterations (number of maximal attempts)
Radius increment (radius increment for each attempt)
Use this formation to find the best fit, but using it in game/project to calculate filled circle could be performance intensive for higher number of units or iterations.
Customisation
And you can always add a new one by implementing IFormation.
The interface is very simple, you get a number of units to position and then formation must return positions relative to Vector3.zero. Translating positions to world space is done by FormationPositioner utility class, which is used by other components.
public interface IFormation
{
List<Vector3> GetPositions(int unitCount);
}If unit count and returned list size do not match, errors are expected.
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