[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

@Mivke1

You are correct. However, having the data of deployable or not in the tile itself is good practice, right? What you argued in the last post is simply using set vs using map, just so I understand you correctly?

All depends on how you’re going to use it. If which tiles that are deployable are never changed during gameplay then you are using slighly less memory for storing the information and less time to access it if using a set, so that can be seen as best practice if you look at it that way. In this case the impact should be completely negligable, though, so do whatever makes senst to you.

@Mivke1

Another question now that I’ve come this far:
The multiplayer works with connection and traveling very nicely, but the client does not have control over any units. Is there something I’m doing wrong or is that not yet setup in the toolkit? If so, do you gave some plan on where to set that up most logically?
For my project each player will control only one unit (with some exceptions) but I would like for them to all be the same faction.

There is a controlling player variable in the config variables of BP_Unit. Set this to the same value for all units that should be controlled by a single player.

@Mivke1

Cheers man, the further I get into this toolkit the more I like it

Good to hear! I put a lot of thought into structure when I refactored the toolkit and hope it all makes sense.

@Mivke1

Yet another question related to the deployability of the tiles. I would like to add a new static mesh on the tiles that are deployable in the deployment phase. I’ve tried duplicating your M_Blue_Transparent, SM_Marker_Move and SM_Marker_Move_Hex and did a M_Green_Transparent, SM_Marker_Deployable and SM_Marker_Deployable_Hex.
Now, I’m having a hard time figuring out where and how you are applying your static meshes to the tiles. What I’ve done so far (all in the GridManager) is:

Now, I’m assuming I’m implementing this ConvertIndexesToLocations and SpawnTileMarkerAtLocation wrong. I found your function called FindTilesInRange and tried to implement in a similar way. Can’t really figure out what I’m doing wrong, maybe there is “a piece” missing?

Hmm, I honestly don’t see what is going wrong here. Try debugging it. Use print nodes at various points throughout your new functions to print the values generated along the way and try to see where it breaks. For instance, loop through and print the locations you are getting and check if they correspond to the locations of your deployment tiles.

@Nobleactual

Hello there again,

I figured out how to check if the unit passes the tile, the damage part works but activates when the unit reaches the clicked target index instead of on the trap index. I tried breaking the loop on simulate movement but it just keeps running. Where do i need to put the branch? Isnt is possible when the player click on a target location and the trap in the pathway to change the target location to the trap location and simulate movement again?

Thanks for the fast reaction and sorry for the newbie question

Hey, you’re solution sounds like a pretty good one actually, and probably more elegant than my own in this case. So you need to remember that you need to do things twice, in a sense. Once when simulated and once when animating. If you are breaking movement whensimulating (which is what you are doing with my suggestion), but still outputting all the same locations when animating movement it will seem like the units is still moving all the way, even though grid-wise it has stopped at the trap tile.This leaves you in a situation that whay the player sees and what the computer has to work with is different, which you obviously don’t want.

One way to implement your suggestions would be to add output nodes to the SimulateMove function. A boolean designating whether movement stopped early and an integer with the path index where the movement stopped. Now you can create a new path array where you include only the indexes up to and including the path index where movement broke. Convert these to locations in the same way that it is done regularly with the path indexes array and use this for input to animate movement if you bMovementBroke (or whatever) boolean is true.