[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

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@Anzak;415021

Ok if I am understanding this correctly then it needs to be 0 on both tiles of an edge to make it unwalkable. What I am doing is making all of the highlighted tiles edges 1. Everything around it should be 0. But if it needs to be 0 on both sides that explains since the outer edge is 1 on the area that I have made walkable.

You misunderstood me. If either edge is 0 it should be unwalkable. Note that this is going to change in the next update when only the edge of the tile you are leaving is ever checked.

@Anzak;415074

I thought I was understanding what you said but it looks like I am wrong.
Tile area array is all of the tiles under the platform. There is an array for each edge top, bottom, right, and left. When a platform is initialized I do nothing though when it is spawned I have a process check what it should be and hides all but the starting one. When it hides them it goes through the Tile area array and sets the edges for all tiles all edges to 0. When I unhide which I do for the first platform at the start of the game I set all edges for all tiles in the Tile area array to 1. Then I loop through each of the 4 edges and set the 3 edges for that side to 0 for each tile on the edge. Each platform is 4x4 tiles.

If what you want is a platform that is walkable with no other tiles in the game walkable it should be enough to make every edge under the platform 1 and every edge not under the platform 0. This should work for what is currently on the marketplace.

@Anzak;415077

As a thought for a debugging feature would be a way to turn on a decal that shows the edge values like the image you put up. Just a thought as I try to noodle through this.

That is a very good idea, and I’ve thought about it before. It is on my list of things to do. For now you can do what I have done. In BP_GridManager when pressing a key of your choice, run the Get Hit Tile and Location and Index function and use the outputted index to get that index from the edge array. Then print all of these edges so you can check them during runtime. Note that which edge is east/north/west/south might not make sense to you. I don’t think there is one direction that is more obviously “west” in the viewport so it was chosen fairly arbitrarily when I first made the toolkit.

@Anzak;415095

I am wondering if this is an artifact of using children of all the base classes. In this case you can see I am using Tile Game Mode which is a child of BP Grid Manager Game Mode. I am also using Tile Grid Manager which is a child of BP Grid Manager. However I am using the Ref to BP Grid Manager to get to the edge array. The part that is troubling to me is that it seems ok with using the grid size x and grid size y from the same ref and that works correctly so it should not be a case where I have not accessed the correct variable. I did try setting all of the tile edges to 0 for all tiles on begin play in the Tile Grid Manager and that does work but activating a tile does not change it’s values back to 1. Anyway eyes are crossing I am calling it a night will try some more things tomorrow.

Hmm, I don’t really think it should matter. I’ve used child blueprints of both of these myself when making my example game without any issues. The reference to BP_Grid_Manager is set in ATBTT_GameMode by getting all actors of type BP_GridManager (which should include any children) and setting the reference to the first BP_GridManager found (since there should always be only one). I can’t be absolutely sure though.

Like I said I would first check that all tiles under the platform have edges of 1 and all outside have edges of 0. Note that you will need to run pathfinding again any time you modify the edge array. Pathfinding only takes into consideration the values of the edges at the moment pathfinding is run.

@Wisdom-;415178

Nope, I don’t use your latest version. I only get what I need from your updates because I have greatly changed the toolkit for our game purpose.
I use the 1.4 version.

Should I download your latest version and copy/paste only the Animation Blueprints to solve my problem?

Ok, good to know it is probably because of the old bug. No, it shouldn’t be necessary to do that. Simply copy the part of the event graph of Anim_BP_Parent that has to do with updating idle/walking/running into the event graphs of the child animation blueprints (I can’t check right now since I’m at work, but it should be the top part of the event graph). After you have copied it make sure you get a new reference to the actual event driving these animations and replace the one that reads “copy”. I hope that makes sense. If you are still confused I’ll send you a screen grab of the event graph when I’m home.

@AxelRantila;415194

The later is what I want to accomplish in my game. If a condition is true (in my case the return value of a function in Unit parent (that seriously needs to be renamed to something better)) for player units, the AI should not to attack the player unit in question. I tried to change it myself but I couldn’t figure how to do it in the AI controller.

You should be able to accomplish what you want by modifying the Make Choice Array function in a similar way to what I have done in the last screenshot of my previous post. Instead of not adding a unit index to the choice array if it is not of the player faction it should refrain from adding it if your custom variable is a certain value. Sorry for the naming conventions, by the way. I was uncertain what would be a sensible naming convention when I first made the toolkit and went with what made sense in the moment. I will prefer keeping the names as they are in the future unless I have a very good reason not to, though, as to not confuse users upgrading the toolkit or following my tutorials.