[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

Hey all, sorry again for the slow support these days. It will get better fairly soon.

@crossmr

I fixed the UI to catch errant taps. You just need to override touch and mouse down and return “handled”. That way if you click a part of the UI that doesn’t have a button it’ll just eat that click and do nothing with it.

ok, great. thanks for the info.

@crossmr

In terms of where I am right now:

1. Touch controls/camera movement
2. Weird bug with some meshes and the floor snapping

Are the two things I don’t think I can solve without your input. But I’ve got a few other things to keep me busy that should take another 1-2 weeks (in app purchases, multiplayer, the action camera, building additional levels). My only suggestion for the touch controls is 1 tap “hover” and then second tap “execute”. it makes the most sense for me. This would help prevent errant clicks moving a unit and also give a player a chance to evaluate hit percentage.

Both of those are high on my list of things to delve into when time allows. Having the first tap count as hover and the second as click is indeed how I want it to work, and is how I set it up initially.

@RC_Malokai

Thanks! I’m confident everything will pan out, with brain like yours

Yeah, i’ve already started looking into the 2d example. I was scratching my head a lot trying to find those edge tiles locations,now it makes sense.

I’m going to need that kind of frame style display (not for movement though) so i will research how to implement it better as well.

Best of luck, then! If you think of some clever solution to this be sure to let me know

@crossmr

My Action Camera system is set up now, took more than one bind, a timeline and some other stuff, but now I have a system that I can use to step out of the fire sequence to run some camera work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYDo9xyxb0 I wish it was easy to deploy to other abilities, but quite a bit of rewiring. Luckily I don’t have too many abilities yet.

If you don’t have too many abilities doing this manually for each is of course a possibility, even if it feel inelegant. If most of your abilities are just different kinds of firearms you could consider implementing this functionality in a parent gun ability and have the other weapons be children of this ability.

@crossmr

Just a bit of a bug I found here. I’ve had this happen once. the game ended, the unit appeared to be at 0 health, but didn’t “die”. I’m guessing there might have been some slight discrepancy between the health value and value being fed to the health bar. I’ll see if I can see what it is, but I haven’t seen it again since and I guess it’d only pop up in very rare situations.

Does indeed sound like a discrepancy between what happens server side and what happens as part of the action system. Maybe a rounding error or something like that? You can try printing the values that are input to the code for animating units being hurt and changing the health bar and comparing it to the values being subtracted from CurrentHealth to see if there is a discrepancy.

@histiz

I just bought this Toolkit and it looks just what I need. Now only problem have been that Tutorials and Toolkit are different. Like I was watching Tutorial 8 (https://youtu.be/e-YGUfKbloM) and in 14:30 there Walls_Combined blueprints and said “See there how it’s done”. There is no any Heightmap_example or those blueprints. Anyway great Toolkit and I am enjoining it!

As @crossmr said, the early tutorials are unfortunately quite dated. I plan to make new ones relatively soon, but I understand that this is of limited help if you need to implement stuff right now. There is no Heightmap Example map in the current version, but the underlying blueprints are still there. If you check the JungleRaid map in Maps/Advanced there are two platforms there that go translucent and become click-through when you zoom in. If this is what you’re after take a look at that map.

@crossmr

I got my camera system full set up, and this is a test run of a sniper kill cam.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6mJcSmCIWYs

Looks neat!

@JPhilmore

Hey, So I had posted a couple weeks ago about trying to get this to work from a multiplayer standpoint (I had asked about anything that would need to be changed from your toolkit standpoint regarding the server). I am hoping to have my players connect on a main menu, join a network together and then enter a level from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abmzWUWxy1U&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gYqSlbGQVKsRg6fpxWndZqZ

This tutorial (and the many videos that are associated with the one above) is basically what I have set up. This tutorial is in ThirdPersonMode, which I’ve actually kept because I may let the players walk around in the “main menu” area to choose characters or upgrade items, but the actually game itself will be Turn Based and will use your toolkit. If you skim the video, you’ll see there is a separate “lobby game mode” and “lobby player controller”. It also uses “server travel” and a “travel map” to get into the level.

In the tutorial itself, its “levels” are also third person, and obviously I’m able to travel and control the character they give me when I get there. When I switch it to a level with the tile, for whatever reason, the entering player controller doesn’t possess anything. I can’t use the “play in editor” to do server travel, so I’m unable to really debug the process and see what’s messing up.

I looked all over the place for this and can’t seem to find a solution or understand whats going on under the hood to solve the issue. Any thoughts why the entering players don’t take control of the grid manager or the units placed on the viewport?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Hmm, it should work in theory. This is basically what I’m doing in the menu in Maps/MP. If you just load a level it should work. Have you tested this with the included example map and get the same issue? Might you be changing the game mode or something like that? You can try adding print nodes to various points along the game startup execution chain to see where things break down. The execution chain starts at BeginPlay in BP_ATBTT.