[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

Sorry for the late answer, people. Been busy with the baby, and the questions here were tricky enough that I had to test some things in engine before I could answer. Ok, here goes:

@codeyhanson

Thank you so much for your reply glad to hear you are having magic with your kid hope to have one my self soon. OK I started a brand new project and show
what I do start to finish glitch 1 is at 3:24 where the camera problem happens glitch 2 is at 5:04 where the spawn units with ability’s happens. I do have both cover and stealth if there is anything I’m missing in the video or you need me to test let me know please and thank you. I tried to make the video as short as possible its about 5 mins 30 secs long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM3-IN1dfkQ

So for the camera issue, the camera panning when shooting a laser does not seem to play nice with the camera interpolation between thrid person and top down. Did not have time to fix it properly, but you can simply disable camera panning in the laser ability to prevent the issue:

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

for your second issue, this seems to be a more general ATBTT issue. I do not automatically setup the ability system component for units spawned at runtime with this component. You can modify the unit spawning code so that it is properly set up, like so:

https://i.imgur.com/c42EsnH.png

Hope that gives you the results you are after!

@Infest1908

Yes I think I can
Basic level, game mode initiative (I think its optional), add initiative bar, set move_attack to from pathfinding costs, add ability system, set move attribute to 1, set action points attributes to 6, add 8 ai enemies, set their current health to 50 (optional too I think) add the heal ability to all of them, give your own unit some more health.
Add a print string to BP_Turnmanager after “run on actor selected”. You will see, that sometimes it prints out the next unit even when the previous one is still acting.

Greetings

Hmm, ok. So you have a pretty strange setup, which I guess might help explain this issue. Wait for Ongoing Actions works great if there are actual actions to wait for. But if your enemy units only have the heal ability and there is nothing to heal, they will never queue any actions on their turn, which might make it possible for the turn manager to skip between the units more quickly than I intended. This is an unforseen effect of when units have no valid abilities. I will need to look into this a bit more closely to figure out a good solution. Until then, could you describe why you need unit selection to wait for ongoing actions in your particular game? Helps for me to know the possible edge cases when I’m making changes like these.

@anonymous_user_96d6d3e1

ok there is alot to filter through in this thread. soo if someone can point me in the correct direction cause my searches are yielding confusing results.

i guess i should list a few things i am trying to do.
goal: make a text turn based tactical rpg.

Hi Lux, noone who makes a game like the one you describe has asked for support in this thread, so you won’t find answers to your specific questions in earlier posts. I’ll see if I can help you though.

@anonymous_user_96d6d3e1

I want to make two teams for starters that are both controled by ai (figured that already)

Yes, that is as simple as checking the “bAIControlled” bool in the unit blueprints.

@anonymous_user_96d6d3e1

ai from team 1 needs to read from its list of actions given to it from various text files

This is more of a general UE4 data question than an ATBTT specitic one. UE4 does not have any built-in functionality for reading external text-files that I’m aware of. I did code this for a project I did at work in C++, so it is possible, though. Probably simpler if you can format it in a way that you can import as data tables. As soon as you have access to the data there are various ways you can set things up so that what abilities a unit has is defined in the data tables. Could be simple or difficult depending on exactly what you’re after.

@anonymous_user_96d6d3e1

at the end of each round (both teams turns) return a combat log

- return all actors alive - all actors current health - any debuffs or buffs (later on down the road)

That should be simple. Loop over all actors and log their health and status effects.

@anonymous_user_96d6d3e1

need to make scripted events along with mandatory spells that must be cast enemy ai (team 2)

This one I don’t really understand. Could you give some concrete examples?

Really curious what sort of game you are making here. Are there any published games similar to this that you can mention?