[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@crossmr

Yes, tick is disabled. So the question is, why are the touch controls returning two similar, but not the same indexes on the same square? The jumping camera when panning might be unrelated, but it seems right now the key to straightening out the touch controls is figuring out why it’s returning two different values like that. It explains why you need to tap 2-3 times to get it to work. It seems that when it returns 4,010 it’s not the right tile and that’s why it isn’t actually firing or doing it’s action, after tapping a couple times it then returns 1,004,010 which is a valid tile to work with, and then it executes. Can you think of any reason or give me some insight as to how/where it actually process that tap into a valid index? Need to make sure it returns the correct tile every single time and then hopefully that part of the controls will be smooth.

The touch controls in the player controller call on the BP_AbilityBase functionality of whatever ability is active, designating whether there is a touch input. This touch input is used for a line trace on the PathTrace channel which returns a location that is converted to a grid index in the same way a clicked location would.

@stevensonmat2

Hi **, **just obtained your tool kit; it was exactly what I was looking for, so thank you! That said, I’ve been following your tutorials and I am having some issues with my characters disappearing into the landscape, so I was hoping you could offer some insight. I attached a couple of screenshots to show what is happening:

As you can see, tiles are appearing under or partially under landscape, and actors are able to move to them and disappear into the ground.

Any help would be appreciated!

Sometimes this is just an issue with UE4’s terrain system and you’ll have to rebuild it. It might also be the settings of the grid manager. Is Heightmap set to true and MaxGridHeight set to something higher than the highest point of your terrain?

For the sake of learning more about ATBTT and blueprints, I’ll try making both BP_Unit and BP_GridActor (child blueprints) versions.
Starting with the BP_Unit, I was able to put the tree on the grid and make it enter combat like any other unit. Obviously much like that YT commenter initially inquired, I’d rather have it not be in the initiative order. Following your suggestion to this guy, I created a “bInitiativeOrder” bool in BP_Unit, by default set to True. The idea would thus be to use this bool to filter elements out of the array that would go into the Sort Actors in Initiative Order, in the Turn Manager, by setting False to the “units” that should not be included. Mimicking your Get Initiative function setup in BPI_Initiative, I created the “Get bInitiativeOrder” function for this.

1-This was my first attempt in trying to filter out the unwanted elements from the array. I failed. If I hit Play, way more units than just the unwanted ones are removed from the final array, even though their bools are set correctly. I believe this isn’t working because I’m modifying the array’s length while in the midst of the ForEachLoop’s execution, which is generally a big no-no?

2-This was my second attempt. I tried making a temporal array in which to store the final version, so as to not modify the ForEachLoop array while it is working. I failed too. In fact, I cannot explain why this version, if I hit Play, makes the final array have ZERO elements!

This seems like a cumbersome way to do this. Rather than removing the units after initiative is sorted, instead modify the initial function that sorts units in initiative so that units with the boolean variable unticked are not added.

3-I was under the impression that if I created child blueprints of BP_Unit, they would already move, and use their three default abilities? If I create one, it *does *go inside the initiative order and thus gets its turn, but it cannot move, use abilities, or be selected at to be fired upon; even though it has its public variable attributes already set like Move, Range, Damage, etc. Do you have any sort-of-updated video or post explaining how can this be done?

Yes, they should be able to do all of those things, but maybe I’ve broken something by accident? Is the regular BP_Unit also not functional or just child actors based on it?

4-More of a blueprints-specific question if you’re willing to explain: for the BPI functions, like the mentioned Get Initiative, I don’t really grasp some of its features. I understand the concept of BPIs as an addon to any BP so that it gains all of the BPI’s functions and tools, among other benefits. But why do these functions have a “Message” version, and a “Interface Call” version?

The Message version receives Obj Refs which is ****ing sweet, and the other one receives…BPI Initiative Interface? Itself? When the heck would I use that for? And back to the Message version: the Envelope on its pin makes me think of it as an Event Dispatcher, but is it really? It doesn’t start with “Bind Event to” like Dispatchers do normally, nor we said they were so inside BPI_Initiative. We just created an extra function. Like you explained in your Turn Manager video, I just consider these as cheaper Casting methods, but in reality I don’t know anything else about these atm.

Anyway, these are my current thoughts putting my programmer hat on haha. Feel free to ignore 4) , I suppose I can track someone down in real life or in these forums to tell me the answer. Thanks for your time !

Blueprint interfaces are a super handy way to have “shared” functions between different blueprints, where each blueprint has a separate implementation. Say that you have an “Interact” interface. In a first person game every time you click the mouse you can do a line trace in front of you and try to run the Interact interface on whatever actor the trace hits. Doors and light switches can have different implementations of the interface function causing them to open or turn on, respectively. This way you do not have to loop through every possible object, cast to them and attempt to run their specific functions. Also, if the interface call fails, nothing bad happens, and it is more efficient than casting. They are super handy, so check out the official docs here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/UserGuide/Types/Interface

@Locoweed

Hello. Is there a Exit Game key set up like 'ESC". If not how and where would I add that? I am concerned about the multiplayer aspect part of exiting also, but mainly just want to be able to exit game with a Key after game is over after it is packaged.

Thanks, Loco

Hey Locoweed, this is a pretty generic question that does not just relate to the toolkit. One way to do this is to define a quit input event in the project settings, define a behavior for this event in BP_PlayerController_ATBTT and call the Quit Game function: Quit Game | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation