[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

@Studder

No worries. Thanks for the explanation.

My blueprint is now this: Build posted by Studder | blueprintUE | PasteBin For Unreal Engine

And I check in “CheckIfValidTarget” if the player can move to a tile or not.

I still have a weird issue though that sometimes when I place the second mesh next to a player the blue markers for this player gets on top of the first mesh instead of the second mesh this doesn’t happen if I place a second mesh that’s not next to a player. You are correct that the player can only move 1 mesh up at a time and can move from second mesh to the floor directly.

I tried adding the Z location of the grid location like I think you said but that gave me some weird results. Resulting the marker being two times above the meshes.

Another thing I am having trouble with is figuring out how you can end the turn of the whole faction.

Following situation:

I have two players. Each can control 2 units in 1 turn. But they can only use 1 unit each turn. I had no idea to switch between units inside factions so it’s now an ugly hack to switch between units in a faction.
Ugly hack posted by Studder | blueprintUE | PasteBin For Unreal Engine

When I click on a unit if it’s the same faction then it’s switching to that unit.

Now what I want is when ever a player end it’s turn it should always go to the other faction. This works some what if use “End Entire Faction Turn” in the ReactivateActiveObject but this only seems to work if I don’t switch between units in a turn. If I switch between units in a turn and end a turn it is possible to go to a unit’s turn in the same faction which I don’t want.

You have any thoughts how to approach this?

Sorry to bug you but one other thing

I want the player not to walk to another tile but to gracefully jump to another tile. I tried some attempts to do it in BP_Unit but I don’t know how I would get the ClickedIndex in there to know where the player must jump to.

Thanks in advance!!

Ok, I figured this stuff might be easier to demonstrate directly than to explain, so I went ahead and implemented most of the basic functionality:

https://media.giphy.com/media/2tTKyTu2QI6z3pTKiG/giphy.gif

I’ll PM you the project and that should hopefully make it clear what things you need to change.

The EndEntireFactionTurn function seems to be broken at the moment. I have added it to my list of bugs and will make it a priority to look into. After making this I’m beginning to agree with the complaint from some users that the turn structure is inflexible. I think it is a good candidate for refactoring and I hope I can find the time to do some work on that soon.

As for gracefully jump, do you mean to have the mesh hop from tile to tile as if you were picking up and moving a game token? Could you be a bit more specific?

@Doxs_Roxs

Hi again, thanks for the help, I got the mesh working now, It was the heightmap setting under Procedural.
Dont worry about the tutorials, remember I am completely new to the Unreal engine and editor.

Now I will proceed to mess with all the other stuff, most likely Ill break it in all sorts of impossible ways

Ok, glad you figured it out. Have fun breaking stuff

Hi , I bought this toolkit a while ago but just started going through the tutorials last week. I wanted to use this toolkit to create a tactics game that plays like a rogue-like (Pause the game and give commands but have movement and attacks function like a rogue-like). I see that there is a rogue-like example in 2D game but I want my game to be in 3D. I’ll let you know if I figure out a way to do this, but I wanted to know if you have any ideas or suggestions on implementation in the meantime.

The 2D example works just as well in 3D. There is not really any difference between the two approaches as far as the toolkit is concerned. The only thing that will be different to implement in 3D is the fog-of war, as the fixed camera angle of the 2D example simply places a flat mesh over the tile. This would obviously not work in 3D and you would have to use 3D fog, procedural meshes, lighting or something else if that is what you’re going for. Could you describe in more detail what you mean with the movement and attacks functioning like a rogue-like? It has become a pretty diverse genre over the years. Are you talking movement using the arrow keys or something else?

@owenprescott

Does this toolkit have an official Discord? If not can the creator (or a user) create one?

Not an official, though there is an unofficial one made by @Flux. Since I have limited time to provide support these days I prefer to answer everything in one go when I have the time, which a forum thread is ideal for. I cannot risk being constantly distracted from my day-job, which giving support through Discord could quickly lead to. However, the Discord is a great place for developers using the toolkit to help each other out, and I might sometimes hop by to chat, but for the reasons described I don’t want to make an official Discord at the moment.

Another reason I prefer providing support in this thread is that the discoverability in the Unreal Engine marketplace is unfortunately abysmal at the moment. Epic are working on implementing tags, but it is still not possible to do simple things like searching for what assets are the most popular. Since I released the toolkit over 3 years ago and the marketplace defaults to sorting everything by date added, having an active support thread that is frequently on the first page of the marketplace forum is the only practical way I have to make new developers aware of its existence.