[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[Monokkel]

@Toad_N11

Hey, so im posting in here in response to my recent comment on the ue4 marketplace about the hybrid units with the attachment issues. To describe why this would be necessary for the my game-the game functions in exploration with a third person camera but for a party of 4 user controlled players. I am setting it up so that you can switch between the four to which you are controlling and which 3 are set to follow (think similar to wasteland except the non combat camera is closer in).

Hi Toad, this should do the trick:

https://i.imgur.com/AVJ6oxl.png

@Toad_N11

Another question I have- i am setting it up so that movement and attacks are using the same action points resource. The idea here is that if an attack costs 2 ap and you have 4 ap then you can attack twice with that one unit in the same turn. However I’m having trouble finding where exactly it calls the units turn to end on an attack. Ie by solving this i am in hopes that I can have it so that you could potentially with enough ap have a turn with one unit that goes- Attack, Move, Attack.

All the default abilities call the SignalAbilityExecuted event after they have been used. This in turn calls RunAfterAbilityExecute in the TurnManager, which by default ends the current unit’s turn if it has 0 AP remaining. Abilities have a bool called bUseEndsTurn which causes AP to be set to 0 no matter how many remain if PayAPCost is called. You would naturally want to set this to false for your ability. Also setting MoveCostType in the ability to FromPathfindingCost will cause the AP cost when moving to be determined by the cost of moving to a tile (this can be overridden in abilities). Hope that is enough to get you started.

@Toad_N11

Lastly as a suggestion (idk if you take them but i think it would be really great for this kit) - the only thing that feels like a disconnect between this kit and many games that emulate it are that you can’t tell when a movement will put you in range of an attack. I suggest something similar to wasteland 3 where a line draw is made between a tile that is hovered over and a unit that is in range of an attack. I will try to come up with something for that as follows (and correct me if there’s a better way with this kit’s setup): in the hover over tile function during movement- get the current units array of abilities. Check this array of abilities for each ones range. Take the highest value and draw a line from the tile hovered over to all units within that range. (might have to separate out abilities cast to enemies and allies and draw out green and red lines respectively)

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually had that feature in some earlier versions, where a crosshair showed up next to the health bar of enemies that could be attacked from a tile. It got removed during a refactoring, but it is something I’ll put on the list of things to add back in the future.