[SUPPORT] Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

[TychoVII]

@;246027

Do your new, shaved off wall meshes work well? I tried making something similar at some point, but I had trouble allowing looking past corners and blocking vision through the corners of two adjacent walls at the same time.

This is my basic setup for the walls for my modular rooms and hallways. Each terminating edge ends in a 45 degree angle to allow vision around corners. Unfortunately it’s a bit ugly since there are little gaps in the floor, but it seems to encapsulate all the line of sight traces just fine. They work great as invisible walls.

@;246027

Actually the stuff I’m making for the next update will let you create dungeons without placing a single Tile actor. I’ve created a solution that automatically generates walkability on any terrain and meshes placed in your level, as long as they are set to block path trace in their collision properties. Once I’m done with the update you can simply place room meshes (don’t have to be actors) of the appropriate size in the level and it should work instantly.

Holy **** that’s awesome! I can’t wait for that update, it sounds like it’s exactly what I need.

@;246027

I do want to add this at some point. I’m an avid D&D DM, so one of my goals for the toolkit is to be able to recreate Dungeons & Dragons in UE4. This would require allowing for units taking up more than one tile. It’s Dungeons & Dragons after all; not Dungeons & Wyrmlings. I’ve thought of a few ways to do this. One way is to have larger units follow a separate pathfinding function that whenever it checks if the next tile in a search step is walkable also checks the walkability of surrounding tiles of the appropriate size. It would be slightly less efficient, but not terribly so. I’d still want to keep it in a separate function instead of checking a “is this unit larger than 1 tile” bool every search step for all units. I think “long” units that occupy a rectangular area might be a bit trickier, as their rotation will change which surrounding tiles they occupy, but I’m confident I can find a solution when I get to implementing large units.

I’ve been in many D&D groups myself and I know this would be an amazing thing to have. I can already tell you that I’ll personally push your wares onto my DM when you’re done. I’m also really excited to see large units support being added in the future since it’s something I too plan on implementing in my game.