[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

@crossmr

This is a pretty big WTF here for me. I’ve got some characters that I’m using from a set. Their heads/hat/masks are additional meshes. If I add 1 static mesh and attach it to the head, it’s fine. The unit still works fine. (e.g. the hair) but if I add a second static mesh to the head socket, it stops functioning. When I start the game the unit will not shoot or move with a second static mesh there. Now for the head it’s fine because it covers the whole head, but other masks also require a hair mesh be attached.

Edit: Already solved this. Apparently you can’t have something cover their face with collisions. Is there a line trace or something being done for movement/shooting? I set the masks no collisions and then it was fine.

Yeah, you need to be careful what meshes are blocking RangeTrace and PathTrace when using the toolkit. Only things blocking line of sight should block RangeTrace and only things that can be walked on should block PathTrace. If not you’ll get weird results like a unit’s head blocking its own line of sight or the GridManager treating the tops of heads of units as ground when calculating walkability.

@crossmr

I’ve actually got a functioning cut-away system in place for my camera. If a character is in a building or behind things it’ll hide it for me so that I can see. The problem I’m having now is that despite the building being cut away the grid has already laid itself out, so you end up with a bit of an odd situation, where you can see into the building and where the character is, but your camera is a bit higher up. This means your mouse tries to interact with the spots that might be on the roof rather than the floor you can see. Is there anyway to have the grid go transparent with the underlying meshes?

Also, why is the game always starting on Turn 2?

For your first question again the answer is the trace channels. When you hide the top floor you also need to stop these meshes from blocking PathTrace or you will not be able to select tiles through them. Check out the platforms in the JungleRaid map that I have set up to become semi-transparent and click through when you zoom close.

As for the game starting on Turn 2 I’m not seeing that. Can you give me the steps to reproduce this?

@Locoweed

This is probably another newbie issue I think, but I thought I heard you say you could delete any sub folder like Maps 2d, but when I deleted caused other things to get broken. I think it is when deleting the BP_Grid_Manager_2d is breaking BP_Grid_Manager, unless I am not clicking the right warnings when I am deleting the Maps 2d. After I deleted everything in Maps 2d, but left Maps 2d Core folder in everything still works.

Thanks, Loco

Hmm, yeah seems like UE4 is detecting some dependencies. Not sure if it is a false positive, though, as I’ve now tested deleting the folder with no apparent issues. What issues are you seeing on your end?