[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[TrasanTheHero]

Thanks for a quick replay!

Your setup is reasonable, but you’re making some mistakes when it comes to features specific to this toolkit, which is understandable. The most unconventional part of this toolkit is what I call the Action System, which keeps gameplay logic and what is shown to the player cleanly separated. This is done in order to make it simpler to queue up several different events without having to call back and forth through event dispatchers and the like. It was also added to make networked multiplayer much easier to setup.

If you look at the node right before the TakeDamage node in your screenshot you’ll see a QueueAction macro. This macro communicates with the action system to show the attack animation and to change the health bar of the target when it is hit/show a death animation if the health bar is empty. TakeDamage, in contrast, modifies the CurrentHealth variable of the target unit and removes references to the unit from the grid arrays and initiative order if it reaches 0. Since you’re only randomizing damage for this second part you could have a unit that is animated as if it is dead, but which is still considered alive by the game logic and vice versa.

So in short what you need to do is to input the same damage value into the macro as into TakeDamage. However you cannot simply use RandomFloatInRange for both, as you’ll still likely end up with differing (random) values. So what you need is to get a random float before the QueueAction macro, store this in a local variable and then input this local variable as the damage input for both QueueAction and TakeDamage.

That’s explains the behavior we got and a very good explanation of the whole logic. I will give it a try creating a local variable.

The action system takes some getting used to. I highly recommend watching my tutorials on this, which can be found here.

I will watch them, again… ;-), and hopefully this time I will get the grasp on it