[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@Selentic;660891

At the very least it fixes visible tile rendering, for now I can just fall back on standard pathfinding. I’ll keep at it for now and see if I can find a solution.

Ok, let me know if you figure something out. As mentioned I want to look at this as soon as possible and make sure it is not a bug that is carried over into the new update, but I am away visiting the in-laws this weekend. I’ll get working on it when I return.

@Mewbits;660903

So, I have found another glitch with the toolkit… I have not modified the Find Tiles in Range event in any way. However, the minimum range doesn’t seem to be working. I wanted to find every index within a 15 tile radius, but not within a 5 tile radius. I then spawned a special tile on those spots, However, the tiles filled the entire 15 tile radius, instead of from 5 to 15.

On this version, it is minimum range of 3 and a range of 10. So the three inner rings should be empty, but if you look carefully, the tile cost 2 spawned there as well.

That is odd. From your screenshot it seems that there is a second problem as well, where tiles are not spawned at the first index of even rows. Does this happen in a fresh project? It looks like a bug I’ve seen before, but one that I fixed a long time ago.

@Malibu Lizard;660906

I don’t know if this has already been asked (Theres alot of comments on this post, too many to read through all the way!) but with the upcoming XCOM style gameplay update I was wondering if there are any plans to also add the feature of ‘selecting units from a list’ before the start of each map. Even a really bare bones basic system would be pretty awesome. The gameplay is a priority for sure, rightly so, but something small like that really would be a great time saver in testing.

Thanks for the suggestion, Malibu Lizard. This is something that several other people have requested and I did consider adding something like this to the game example in the coming update. However, I’ve had to stop myself from constantly adding new features so that I can get this update done. What was originally planned to be just a few small additions quickly ballooned into a big list of complex new features so that I’m way past the date I planned to release the update. I will be sure to put this on the list of things to add in the following update, though.

@Malibu Lizard;660906

1- Make an option to Start a map without units automatically selected each turn, and instead you must manually select a unit to control them. This obviously would only affect human players not AI and as an option it wouldn’t effect those who wouldn’t like that as they can have is disabled.
2- To add to the last suggestion, have a button to end a players turn early, even if they haven’t moved all their pawns.
3- Last suggestion, before completing a turn for a pawn (movement or attack) have a UI or something to show a Proceed/Cancel option rather then just doing it. Again as an boolean option, so those who would prefer the instant-Click method rather then the planning method wouldn’t be affected.

All these are good suggestions and are all related to giving the user more control over turn order. This is a part of the toolkit I’ve long wanted to make more easy to adapt and modify, so this is all on my to-do list. Though again not for the coming update, but the one after.

@Malibu Lizard;660906

Even if none of these suggestions are taken into consideration, thank you again for the awesome kit. Its amazing how much blueprints can accomplish without a single line of C++, even more amazing that some people, like yourself, can already understand it so masterfully. It’s not crazy to think that in 10 years time there might be multiple visual coding languages that are just as powerful and flexible as classic coding languages, making game design accessible to everyone with interest.

Thanks and you’re welcome I first started making grid based pathfinding in UE4 mostly to test out the capabilities of blueprints and determine whether they could realistically be used to make a full game (early on there was a ton of scepticism regarding blueprints and people were saying that you should never use it for anything serious). My experiment got the attention of people on this forum who had thought about making TBS games and slowly grew into this toolkit. Blueprints are a fantastic tool for scripting and the way you create a visual layout of nodes seems to mesh well with my way of thinking and creative process. With blueprint nativization that was added a couple of UE4 versions ago the speed of blueprints has increased substantially, making it even easier to justify using blueprints for just about everything. I’ve become very good at certain kinds of blueprint scripting; mainly the parts involved with manipulating arrays, but I still have many areas that I know very little. Making this toolkit has made me very specialized, and I still have only novice to intermediate knowledge about animation blueprints, UI and material nodes, for instance. But as I’m beginning to become satisfied with how the underlying mechanics of the toolkit work I’ll be looking into adding features that require other such skillsets. Making a good UI for selecting units, ending turns etc. is one such feature.