[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

Sorry about the late answer, people. Yesterday got really busy. I’ll get to your questions now

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Ok, so like a donut? Is it important that this is done using a subgrid? Can it be done at runtime? If so, FindTilesInRange with a minimum range of 1 can be used. What is the gameplay purpose of these subgrids?

Yes like a donut and and being done at runtime would be perfect. Thank for the help and do not spend to much time on this, its not that important. I have to go out of town tomorrow and will
reconnect with you when I return in a week or two
Thanks again .

Ok, here is a hardcoded example to give you a starting point. This creates tiles and add them to the grid in a hexagonal donut at a specified grid index:

https://i.imgur.com/i04elB8.png

https://i.imgur.com/N5jOGpp.gif

Note that DefaultTile does not have collision, so you would want to add your own mesh instance with collision that blocks PathTrace

@Infest1908

1. Yes thanks. I searched hours because it was working in a blank project until I found out, that this will not work when you have “use Decals” on true. Where can I change it when I want to have it active?

Ah, sorry. I assumed you were using meshes. For decals, change the value of TileMarkersDecal (and for BP_Ability_MoveAttack also TileMarkerMoveDecal). Both are variables in BP_Ability and its children.

@Infest1908

2. So for the spline works too but where can I chance the color/material? As everything still shines bright white after changing the static mesh.

Yeah, this is my mistake. Seems like the material is being unnecessarily overridden due to an old setup that is no longer needed. Go to the DisplaySplineWithSplineMeshes function in BP_GridManager and remove the SetMaterial node.

@Infest1908

3. Where for “AbilitityMoveAttack” is for the AI defined, that after movement, with having no AP left, it still has the free attack/Action? I found for the player and changed it, but can´t find it for the AI.

AI is a bit more complicated. Generally AI abilities try to find all reachable tiles, with a move range defined by the PossibleMove variable in the ability. If the unit has only enough AP left when assessing an ability to use the ability, but nothing more, PossibleMove is set to 0 (in UpdateAttributes) and the unit will only use the skill if it can do so from its current position.

@Infest1908

4. I am trying to access the float for damage within “BP Unit” and parse it to “Animate Death” like its done the same way for “animate Hurt” already. But when I conect the pin, it will givge me the errormassage once it tries to access it during gameplay. I have added a screenshot.

Thank you Mono

That error indicates that there is no value stored in the float array of the action. You need to pass the damage into the QueueAction(death) macro where it is called.

@RTE1984

Hi ,

This is super detailed and helpful, I implemented it with no issue. I appreciate it!

Curious though, my blue move markers are gone now. Where did you have me turn those off in this breakdown?

Maybe you forgot to connect the ForLoop to the Add node in BP_Ability_Move when you deleted the branch? Check your code and make sure it looks like my screenshots.

@RTE1984

As far as this issue goes we now just need a way to differentiate visually that multiple players are on the same space, we were thinking of maybe adjusting where they’re at on the space, so not every player will be centered on it.

Many different ways to do this. Not sure which is best. Perhaps create a grid TMap that holds the number of units on each tile and when a unit wants to enter a tile, check the number, reference it against an array of predefined relative locations and make this the end point of the path? Something like that.

@Munchydo1

Hello. Thank you so much for making this tool. I just bought it yesterday and it’s looking very informative and useful for what I’m doing! I’m still relatively inexperienced at coding and Unreal Engine, but I have a question.

I added attack and defense stats that determine how much damage an attack should do to a target. The attack is added to a unit’s equipped weapon and put into the damage variable that was already a part of BP_Unit. In the Take Damage function I have the target’s defense subtracted from the damage to determine how much health should be lost. It seems like its calculating the damage correctly, but the health bar is not displaying properly. It is removing a percentage based on the damage calculation without factoring in defense, yet the unit’s current health stat after being attacked is correct. This leads to situations where the unit disappears from the grid as if they died once their health bar reaches 0, but they can still be moved around and have health left (although they cannot attack or be attacked).

Basically I would like to know how to correctly update the health bar and what I would have to change with my current system to do that. Sorry if this is a silly question, I just can’t figure out what is going wrong.

Hi Munchydo, that is a very common mistake people make with the toolkit, and understandably so, since the game logic/action system distinction takes some getting used to (check out my tutorials on the action system if you have not done so already). I’m making some changes in the next update that will make it more difficult to make these sorts of mistake.

The problem is that you are damaging and killing the unit in the game logic, but you are not sending this information to the action system, which asynchronously displays this to the player. So in other words you need to make sure that any time you deal damage you also queue and action to display that damage being dealt. Infest has been kind to show one way of doing this. If you are using the TakeDamage directly you can also set the AutoAnimate boolean to true, which will automatically queue the appropriate hurt animation and health bar change dependent on the input damage.