[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

@HaxorViper

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

No worries, we’ve all been there. Sometimes one just gets stuck in a rut. It is all part of a learning process, though.

@HaxorViper

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.

Ok, I assumed it did something like that. Then I stand by my suggestion of putting it at the beginning of ExecuteAbilitiy. You need the information both for simulating and animating the damage, so it should be done before any of these.

@HaxorViper

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.

You’re talking about when the connection wires light up while your running the game? Yeah, those are not very accurate. Use break points or PrintString nodes to be sure of what happens.

@HaxorViper

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.

Like I said, don’t worry about it, we’ve all been there. Sorry if my tone came across as annoyed; that was not my intent. I agree that it is often easier to learn stuff while you’re working towards a goal.

@Stirling93

Could the GridActors be used to snap onto each other / other grid actors? Example: Stacking a BP_GA_Tile_Wall on top of itself to make a modular wall.

There is no such functionality included in the toolkit, so I’m afraid you would have to add that yourself.

@Nobleactual

Hi Monokell and felow toolkit users, I want to create a trap tile were if a unit moves over it, it will stop on the trap tile and take damage. I know the damage part but the unit keeps on moving and then take the damage but i want it to stop. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance
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Sure, it is possible, though there are a few steps to it. Movement in the toolkit works by the unit first simulating movement by essentially moving a reference of the unit from cell to cell in the GridUnits map. After this the grid indexes are converted to actual in-game locations and the unit actor is moved between these locations using a spline.

So for a trap you would want to add a check to each step of the movement simulation that sees if anything happens on that specific tile before proceding to the next. If a trap is found and that trap is supposed to stop the unit you need to make sure only the grid indexes up to the index of the trap are converted to locations.

There is an event dispatcher in the toolkit created for just this sort of thing. If you look in the SimulateMove function of BP_Unit you can see that the “OnEnterTileSimulate” event dispatcher is called whenever a unit enters a new tile (during simulation).

You can bind an event in your trap actors to this event dispatcher. When the dispatcher is called, compare the grid index to the trap to the grid index output from the OnEnterTileSimulate dispatcher. If they are the same that means that the unit has entered the tile of the trap.

At this point you deal damage to the unit. Then, if you want movement to stop you first want to stop the simulated movement. In the SimulateMove function add a branch that exits the loop if true, similar to the “contains” node for the GridUnits map that is currently in the SimulateMove function. Set whatever variable is input to this branch to true when the trap is entered to stop the simulated movement.

Now you need to make sure to only pass the locations up to the tile index of the trap into the QueueAction macro, instead of the entire path. You can do this by storing the index of the trap when it is triggered, using Find on the PathIndex array to find the array index of this grid index and use this to create a new array of locations from the PathLocations array stopping at the index found in the last step and feeding this into the move action. You would then want to queue an animation for displaying the unit being hurt by the trap right after the move action has been queued (as it happens right after movement stops).

Those are the steps I would go through to create something like this. It is a bit complex, I know, so let me know if you have any questions.

@Mivke1

Hey man!

I will get to your ideas on how to make a deployment phase and I’m sure they will work great but I realized before I get to that I would like to use some placeholder Characters instead of the default mannekins to be able to differentiate between the different players aswell as having the option from the selected character from the lobby carry over into the game.
My first issue I’ve run into is that the character, even though rigged and retargeted, only takes the idle state in the game and never animates hits och animates taken hits. I know previously you’ve talked about this issue, just wondered if you have the time to go over it again in some more detail? I could not really understand the previous answer (to another forum user, not me).

Thanks man and hope all is well!
Cheers,
Mivke

There might be several reasons for this depending on what you have done. Check the event graph of BP_Unit_Anim and compare it to the event graph of your new units. Are there any differences? What about ABP_Unit compared to your new animation blueprint? Maybe you have forgotten to add notify events to the new animations? Let me know what differences you find and I’ll try to figure out what has gone wrong.