[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

The Advanced Turn Based toolkit iscurrently 30% off as part of Epic’s Cyber Monday Sale! For anyone considering getting the toolkit, now might be the time

@elec2ron

Considering a purchase, looks very good.

I see on the trello board you plan on implementing multi-tile big units, how do you think this will work and what kind of time frame are you looking at? It would be really great to have a separate grid for different unit sizes.

Happy to hear you are considering a purchase. Multi-tile units are planned for the update after the next. I hope to have the next update done by the end of the year. The next update with multi-tile units should be done some months after, though I cannot give an exact prediction on when it will be done.

The planned solution for multi-tile units is not to have a separate grid per se, but to instead use a Map of integers that holds the maximum unit size that can occupy a specific tile. Multi-tile units would use a slightly modified pathfinding that checks this map for each search step during pathfinding. The multi-tile unit map would be generated at the game startup.

@Albie_123

Hey, just purchased this from the store page and have tried out implementing it in my game. So far, so good!

One little query I have is the use of ‘200’ as a magic number in the “Set CollisionPlane and HeightmapBox Scale and Location” function in the construction script. From what I can tell, this is done because the bounds of a tile are expected to be 200 - does this mean that any other grid size won’t work properly without these floats being changed?

The toolkit does work with grids of arbitrary size. If you change the default tile mesh to one of a different size, the grid will resize appropriately and everything should work fine.

I do agree that this part is not very elegantly scripted, though. In my WIP build I have changed it so that the grid can be resized using UE4’s built-in resizing widget, and there are no more magic numbers. The current live implementation works well and without issue, though, even if it is admittedly a bit hacky.