[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@Raiken

Hello from a fellow Norwegian Great toolkit this! I’m working on this little learning project we have going as well, so I’ll attempt to clarify a bit. I’m the dumb character artist doing a learn, so don’t expect any programmer intelligence out of me either.

No worries, I’ll do my best to explain and just let me know if you need more details.

@Raiken

I watched him try this, and what happened was some odd things where the square decal spawned on top of the hexagonal one on that units turn, both for the red and blue. This was on a copied grid manager though. It worked fine when editing the original (which we really don’t want to do, since we’re almost certain to break it at some point). Any idea what could cause this?

Ah, sorry. That is a result of one of the uglier hacks in the toolkit. For the default abilities I’ve set it up so that they choose a square or hexagonal markers based on the class of the current grid manager. This is just there for easy testing and debugging. For a released game there is no reason to have code that decides which markers to use based on the grid, as you will in all likelihood be using one or the other. So I’d recommend just setting the markers directly. If you’re using BP_Ability_MoveAttack on your units, edit this ability and set the meshes of the various marker components to the meshes you want to use.

@Raiken

What I think he is asking here is having the enemies with initiative of one all go one after the other, have the player units with the same initiative go after that (or before, depending), and then rinse and repeat for initiative 3, 10 etc. This is likely to group enemies spawned with a set initiative to go sequentially one after the other, without having the camera bouncing back and forth if it’s set to follow the units for instance. Bit of a marginal use case as far as i can tell, but hey, we’re learning.

There are three different Turn Managers in the toolkit for various initiative behaviors. For a D&D-style initiative use BP_TurnManager_Initiative. If you ise the BP_ATBTT_Initiative GameState this turn manager will be used. Note that this will sorts units in initiative at startup, but not the new ones you add during the game. To sort the new units, call SortActorsInInitiativeOrder in the turn manager you are using, like so:

@Raiken

Edit: Spoke to the man who posted, and yes he would indeed like to know if it is possible to make the units move at the same time, to save time when large hordes of enemies move in a horde mode type of game for instance. Pathing will likely be a nightmare, I know. Is it possible to simulate the moves individually, but then have the animations play at the same time?

Ok, so that is a bit of a challenge, if doable. The toolkit is split up into gameplay logic that happens instantly and animation the plays out sequentially. I have played around with ways to have these animated actions run at the same time, either through sorting of the queued actions or through the use of multiple action managers working in parallel, but this is definitely not trivial to implement. If you are dead set on having this feature I can give it some more thought.

@Raiken

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