[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@Nobleactual

Thanks worked like a charm

Great

@Ymir

Very nice work ! do you plan to make a video to add this project into Dungeon Generator V2 in Blueprints - UE Marketplace

Thanks for the suggestion, though I have more than enough other tutorials planned, so I don’t really see myself making tutorials to integrate the toolkit with other marketplace assets. At least not any time soon. I might do one on the toolkit’s procedural walkability generation more generally, though. What you need to do to get the toolkit working with any sort of procedurally generated map is to make sure the grid of the grid manager and your procedural map is aligned and of the same scale and that the grid manager is large enough to cover the entire potential area of your map. Then you need to make sure the procedural map is generated before the grid manager is activated. Then have all meshes of your map that can be walked on block the PathTrace channel and all meshes that can block movement block the WallTrace channel. Lastly set the Heightmap variable in the grid manager to either false (if your map is flat), one level (if it is not) or multilevel and set TraceForWalls to true. Toy around with the other values under the procedural tag to get the desired effect. Hope that helps!

@Tarrtarus

Hey , hope you remember me from our e-mail exchanges over the past while. Been using your toolkit since June/July of last year. Wanted to say “GREAT UPDATE MAN!” this added a lot of sorely needed functionality and some of the changes you made enabled me to fix some major issues I had with my prototype prior. Wanted to point out that the “Can Player Switch Units” Bool wasn’t hooked up to anything, but can be easily fixed in BP_Ability –> Default Click –> See attached image for code. Not sure if this was fixed in one of your previous hotfixes, but if not, hopefully this helps someone.

Secondly, on the AttackMove Ability BP, under the Click section, the location node is disconnected by default. Is this intentional? See my other attached image.

Lastly, in previous versions of the toolkit, you allowed for units to follow their hard set initiate order. Now it seems like initiative order is hard locked per faction. I’ve fiddled around with it, but attempting to change the initiative on a unit manually ends up in it being set back to 1 or 2 based on faction. What am I missing? How do I get the turn order to follow hard initiative values for units regardless of teams and have the active controller switch back and forth as necessary? Apologies if I missed something somewhere along the line, this update included so much I still haven’t gotten myself acclimated just yet.

Thank you for your time and thank you for your great toolkit.

I think you used a different name in our e-mail exchanges so you will have to remind me. I’m happy to hear you like the update, though! Thanks for pointing out the various issues you found. All the things you mentioned are indeed mistakes and I will add them to the list of stuff to fix for my next hotfix.

As for initiative order, it does actually work like before. It is just that the example map uses the BP_Unit_Anim_Auto actors. I made this actor as a replacement for the four different ranged player, melee enemy etc. units I used to have. They are just like BP_Unit_Anim, but their materials are set to green or red depending on their faction and their animation blueprint is changed to the ranged one if their range is higher than 1. Also, their initiative is set automatically to 0 for enemies and 1 for players. I feel that this unit might be more confusing than it is helpful, though, particularly as it is used in the basic example map. I’ll probably go back to the older version of doing things in the next hotfix. So to answer your question, if you want to be able to modify the initiative value of units do not use the BP_Unit_Anim_Auto class.