[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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I don’t believe you can add meshes to blueprint components, as I think you’ve also discovered. So if you want your weapon components to be associated with a mesh you would either make them actors or have a static mesh variable as one of the variables contained in the component and spawn an instance of this mesh when the weapon is equipped. If you go by it this second way you can keep using components which are simpler to access than child actors.

I was actually able to get the mesh when using my iron weapon child actor, but I couldn’t change the parent socket, so I just had a floating sword following the unit actor. Your option sounds easier to implement.

You’re going to need to do some reading up on Unreal Engine features. Read the UE4 documentation and do some tutorials. I googled “unreal engine get child actor reference” and this was the result, so the information is there if you search for it. I know that these things are frustrating when you are learning the engine and that it is tempting to jump ahead to add the specific features you want, you need to build up the fundamentals first. If you use the component method I suggested above, though, you can just use the get component nodes, which are simple and efficient.

I have actually been watching tutorials and documentation for months, but everything blends together because there are so many different ways to do the same thing. And due to my inexperience my comprehension is pretty bad when reading these things. I feel like I don’t understand things unless I try them, so I wanted to build my fundamentals with experience. It is pretty rough, and I understand when to use them, I just need to learn how. Thanks for the links, I feel a bit stupid not googling it

The attack action is called whenever an attack is performed, not just when a unit is killed, so you must have changed something on your end. What exactly is your function supposed to do? The resolution of the screenshot you included is too low for me to read it. In most cases I think it would be best to call it somewhere after ExecuteAbility. If it modifies any of the information that is passed to the attack action or deal damage you would want to call it before any of these.

My function is the one pictured in 4, it’s basically just a bunch of float additions and substractions taken from the unit stats and weapon stats to get the combat data of an encounter (Chance to hit, critical hit chance, and damage). What I screenshot in 6 is the move_attack function that came with the package, I just wanted to know the general location of where I’d put the combat data function so that I can roll numbers against the hit chance and critical chance and get an updated damage value.

And on move_attack’s behavior, I just debugged it and it seems like the execution is actually passing through it when frame skipped, but when I checked it in real time it doesn’t flow through it. It seems more like an unreal engine 4 bug, the flow only appeared when the game ended by killing the last unit. I was thinking that I broke it so I deleted what I’ve done and got a fresh slate of move_attack, but it was just the execution flow being glitched.

As mentioned, the documentation and various tutorials on referencing and casting will do a better job of describing all of this than I can. So to sum up, right after ExecuteAbility is probably a good place for your FindData function. For accessing components use the GetComponent functions. For accessing other variables contained in the blueprint itself get a reference to the blueprint and use a cast if you want to access variables contained in a child blueprint where you only have a reference to the parent. To access variables in child actor components first get a reference to the component and then use GetChildActor. Cast if needed. Also, check out some tutorials on interfaces, as they are very useful for these sorts of things; especially in cases where you have multiple different objects with shared functionality.

Thanks man. I hope I am not frustrating you or anything, I know I shouldn’t tackle something like this when just starting out. While I watched a bunch of documentation and tutorials, what I read isn’t retained in my head because by just reading I didn’t have anything to apply it to and remember. I want to learn the engine by using your package because of my love for tactical role playing games, and I feel that whatever I learn here I am going to remember more easily.