[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

I think that’s very good advice , thank you (: I’m playing right now with the toolkit actually. And make no mistake, it is all fairly intuitive just like you say, and the descriptions you’ve added to everything are a huge help. It’s a lot to take in of course, so it’ll take some time to get my head around this. But it’s just like you say - small goals and learning through trial and error.

Best of luck, and let me know if you need any input

@leo_bar

hi

i saw your progress on v1.10 in trello, looks great!!!

i hope you are putting a Boolean of the version changes every place you did a change? i modified the toolkit so much so for me using a new project when the new version update will come is not an option.

cheers
leo

I’m marking the major changes, but I do not mark everything. Two major changes I have done are changing the GridEdges array to a map and to switch to a grid index system where the index of a location is affected by the size of the grid, to one which is independent of grid size. Both of these changes mean I need to change every function in the toolkit that uses the GridEdges array or uses GridSizeX and GridSizeY to determine a grid index. If I were to add a boolean marker every such place things would begin to look very messy very quickly. For more specific changes I try to always include a marker, though.

@syl7h

Hi ,

I think you skiped my message from some days ago (it was waiting for moderation aproval on thursday and published on friday because I never posted before )

Grégoire

Whoops, indeed I did. Sorry about that. Weird that I did not see that comment. Maybe it is because of it being hidden while waiting for approval, as you suggest. I’ll get to your question now.

@syl7h

Hi ,

I bought your toolkit some days ago and it’s working really well so far. I just have a few questions I hope you’ll have an answer (whenever you find some time I know you’re busy! )

I want to make a turn based game using a hex grid featuring two teams of about 4 units fighting (all good so far) What I need to add is:
-Walking costing only “move points”(the move value of a unit) and not AP, and available at anytime of turn (for example: move -> attack -> move to cover)
-Being able to use multiple abilities in the same turn (I think there is a way already but when I try using an ability costing 1AP with 3AP available, my AP is set to 0 and my turn automatically ends.)
-Using a custom animation for the skeletal mesh for each ability (i guess I have to add a bool ref to an anim bool inside the abilityBP?)

An example of a turn I would like to be possible: [move out of cover(-2 MovePoint); attack1(-2AP); go near ally unit (-4MP); healing on both allies (-3AP); end of turn]

Do you know how I could achieve such features or at least where I should look? Thank you very much for your help and good luck on your work,

Grégoire

Should not be terribly difficult, I think. You basically just need to create a new variable similar to CurrentAP in BP_Unit that holds the MP. Then for abilities that use this resource you would change the checks and modifications of the CurrentAP variable to instead reference CurrentMP. The reason AP is set to 0 and the turn ends when you’re using the ability you describe is probably because it has bUseEndsTurn set to true in its variables.