[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

Thanks for the in-depth response The sharing of your wisdom is very much appreciated. I think I’ll start writing up some docs with all the info you’re giving me of the ATBTT’s functionality. You’ve given me a lot to work with, so I’ll start digging around and studying some more now.

Best of luck!

@OngoGablogian

Hello!
Me and my friend are developing a small turn based strategy game for our college project(with hopes to turn it into a fully fledged game afterwards) and this tool kit has been so much help!

We are currently working on the abilities for our different characters attacks.
For each attack we are using the laser ability as a base in order to easily implement hit chances etc.

We have come across a problem however, we are wanting to do an AP Cost check within the ability system blueprint however, we are unsure how to relay the AP Cost back to the ability system as we can’t find a variable for it. We are wondering how we would do this or if there is another way to implement it?

So you’re trying to access the AP cost of a specific ability from within BP_AbilitySystem? You should be able to find it either in the defaults of the approriate item in the Abilities array or specific ability in the AbilityRefs array.

@Crusader_91

Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks for this awesome toolkit. I’ve bought it a few weeks ago and now proceed to use it.

For this moment I have a problem with spawning AI units during gameplay. I have two types of AI-controlled units: 1) Enemy (“E”) units move in random direction every turn (this is their default ability) and 2) Spawner (“S”) spawns several “E”-units randomly over the grid every turn and puts them at the end of “Enemy” faction in initiative order. The order of the initiative is described below:

1. Player takes his turn and moves in selected direction;
2. The Spawner spawns several additional Enemies and puts them at the end of “Enemy” faction in initiative order;
3. All non-additional Enemies take their turns and move in random direction without delay between them. Then all additional Enemies become non-additional.

The problem is that spawned units have no default ability though it is clearly set up in “E”-unit attributes.

If it won’t bother you, could you write a short tutorial about spawning units during gameplay? It would help a lot.

Thanks again! (and sorry for my broken English)

There are some known issues with unit spawning that will be fixed in the next update. Here is the updated HandleUnitSpawning function in BP_Unit. I’ve tested out spawning AI units now, both using just the default ability and the ability system and it seems to work on my end (with this modified function). I used some very basic debug unit spawning here, like so:

Let me know if chaning the function works for your setup. If not, could you paste some screenshots of your unit spawning code and tell me what error you are seeing? How do you know that the problem is caused by the ability not being spawned?

Spawning units is one of those questions that keeps coming up, so I agree I should add some support for this. It might be better to add an example map over a tutorial video, though. I’ll put it high on my list.