[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Darthlatte]

Ok, that explains the missing ability. Whenever I release a new update of UE4 it is always for the newest version. That is the version I use when developing and it is not possible to convert projects to older versions of UE4, so updating multiple versions would be too time consuming. Hope the free roam ability gives you a good starting point to achieve your intended goal.

As for large maps, I would generally recommend calculating at startup. The map generation stuff are some of the heaviest operations in the toolkit, so if you want to run a limited version of them every time you run pathfinding etc. it could quickly slow the game down. You could increase the iteration count, and if it is possible to reset this to the normal value after the first tick of the game, there aren’t many drawbacks to doing it this way. Another possibility is to run the startup function over multiple ticks using my ForLoopPerTick and ForEachLoopPerTick macros. It will take some reordering of things, but should not be terribly difficult to do.

How large a map are we talking here, by the way, and what options are you using (multi-level, trace for walls etc.)?

Ok, I understand that it’s easier to just maintain one version of your asset

My current game map is big, as in 12km x 12km big, and it will probably be expanded upon in the future… I’m using all the options that are in the advanced template as they fit many of my gameplay needs

What would you say are the most intensive calculations grid wise?

I could probably find a way to reset the iteration count after the initial calculations. I’ll try to look at that (or just do it manually).

I haven’t looked at your ForLoopPerTick and ForEachLoopPerTick macros yet. That may be a solution.

Thinking out of the box - wouldn’t it be possible to do this at runtime for a small grid around the player? I was thinking of having a fixed point in the world and then reference the point coordinates for the generation of tiles to make it all snap and consistent. I would love your input about this idea, and especially why it wouldn’t work

As I see it there’s another caveat of statically generating the grid and that is consistency when thing change. For example if I would resize the grid tile sizes, then all the positions of the placed blueprints would be invalid. Or am I wrong here? Maybe there’s some logic to rearrange the units etc. upon change?

Btw. I think your asset is great

Thank you