[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@Mivke1

Hey !

I’ve set up my project with monsters being spawned depending on number of players and the deployment phase that you helped me set up some time ago. However, this leads to there being no unit placed in the map at initialization. This is how I want it to be, but it seems the Grid Manager does not activate correctly due to this. I’m getting some errors saying GridManagerRef returned null unless I place a unit in the map from the editor.
I just now found your note on ActivateGridManager in BP_ATBTT_State saying “Activate the grid manager after making the initiative order array, as this is used in the setup of BP_GridManager”. My question is, how and where is this used? I could of course make a work around by placing a non-activated invisible unit somewhere but I’d rather not since it feels hacky and could mess with win conditions of the map, initiative order arrays and tons of other stuff I don’t know about yet
I will start looking for it on my own but it’s always so helpful when you get the thought behind why it’s being used there aswell so you know how it should/could be used in the future.

Thanks again man, loving the toolkit more and more the more I use it

Can you remind me of the changes to the toolkit I helped you set up? It is hard to know what might be going wrong without being able to replicate it. As far as I recall I had set it up so that having units placed beforehand was no longer necessary, but I might not have tested it thoroughly enough. When you click the errors that appear, to what functions are you directed? By the way, if you want to set it up in a hacky way you can just remove the inivisible unit from the initiative array and grid units map after startup and you should be good. It should be possible to get this working without such a hack, though.

@anonymous_user_c2655a011

Hi !

Can you explain me the functionality of the macro Owns Unit?
If I understood well, this macro will work ONLY if the battle is 1vs1, with the listen server against another client.

If I have two, three, four clients, or teams like 2vs2 match, can you confirm that this macro will not work? Actually I think that to achieve this I have to populate a custom integer in the player controller that reveals to himself who is him relative to the server (ex. the server in the Assign Units will also assign 1 or 2 or 3 etc. to the Owning PC so that in the future he can recognize correctly what are his units).

Is this the correct way to do it in your opinion?

Thanks in advance!

That macro should actually work with any number of players in an online game. The macro is a bit hacky and conterintuitive, so I understand that it seems do do something very differently when taken at face value. This is a way to get around the way player controllers are stored differently in clients and servers. The server has access to all player controllers, so server side it is unproblematic to get references to player controllers and compare them to the PCs that own units. However, clients only have access to their own player controller, so trying to get access to a different client’s player controller retuns nothing, while trying to get the server’s player controller returns a signature that is identical to the client’s player controller. To prevent clients from thinking the owned unit is owned by them, when it is in fact owned by the server I implemented a bOwnedByServer boolean which takes care of this if the OwnsUnit macro is activated outside the server. It is not the most elegant solution, but it does the job. I hope to think of a good way to solve this without the boolean in the future.