[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@Subzeroblack

@ Ok so what im gonna change the way im approaching this…
basically the setting of the game is a monster chases 3 players around the mansion (custom skeletons as well). Monster will have 100 health. punching the monster only does 1 damage. At this point there is no way to kill the monster because its to strong. So the player has to run around and get “Idols/statues” of the monster and either it collecting them hurts the monster 25 damage (4 idols in the mansion) or hitting the monster with it hurts him (all 1 time use pickups)…

What I decided to do differently now is I want to do actions/abilities like the sci-fi example. In particularly copying the grenade attack with limited amount of “grenades”. I want all the players to have the movement system from standard movement, sprint, punch, and grenade/idol throw but all players will start with 0 grenades. Once the player picks up a grenade they will have 1 available. … The rest should be self explanatory on how to beat the monster.

Now I just got to rewatch the Jungle Raid video and figure out how to do all of this… Oh yeah i’m using 4.18 version because there are more video support… But all I explained are the extent of the mechanics. While still being new to Blueprint, do you think using the 4.19 version would be easier to work with?

Ok, sounds good. The grenade ability has a default charges variable. You can add the ability system to your units (or in the older toolkit version, rather use a unit derived from Unit_Skill), add the grenade ability to their starting abilities and set DefaultCharges to 0 in the grenade ability and they should start with a greyed out, unusable grenade ability. Then when a unit picks up a grenade you need to add one charge to the ability. For the new version of the toolkit this means updating the Charges array in the BP_AbilitySystem of the unit, but for the older version this means getting a reference to the correct ability from the AbilityRefs array of the unit_skill in question and changing the charges within the ability.

As for using the older version or changing to the new, it is a tough question to answer. I do obviously think the new version is better, as I would not have made it otherwise, but in truth you can do much of the same in the older and newer version (unless you want networked multiplayer). So since it might take some time before I’m able to make a lot of new videos because of the quickly approaching deadline for my PhD, the old version might be a better choice if you are new to unreal engine, especially for learning. Though if you have worked with the old version a bit and learned all you can from the old tutorials, the transistion to the new version should hopefully not be that hard.

Tell you what, if you want to use the new version and find something in the old tutorials that you are not able to get working with the new version, let me know here. I will do my best to explain how to achieve the same thing in the new version. Then I will post a link in the YouTube descripting to my explanation so that others can find help if they run into the same issues.

@Captain_Krunch

Hi all, can someone point me to where the move decals are drawn? I’m trying to create a toggle button that would draw whole grid with decals, not just the movement around active pawn.

They are drawn in the AnimateAction event of the particular ability being used (for the example map this is BP_Ability_MoveAttack). Check out the SpawnTileMarkers event here, which calls on the SpawnTileMarkersAtLocations function in BP_GridManager which does the actual decal spawning.