Hi everyone, I have just submitted the first update to Epic. Once they are done processing it, it should appear on Marketplace and you should get a notification in your launcher that an update is available. I will summarize the changes as well as reintegrating steps if you’re already actively using the plugin in your project.
New features:
- Support for hex grids. Line of sight check is not implemented yet for hex. All other features are implemented including path and attack range computation, tile searching, target storage, grid merging.
- Grid composition. You can now compose grids from multiple smaller rectangular grids. This enables you to represent irregular shaped grids (dungeons with long hallways, large unused spaces, etc) efficiently.
- Targeting by allegiance. Units now have an allegiance towards each other, either neutral, friendly or hostile. Single tile queries are updated to return allegiance when applicable: when retrieving from an ActionGrid the occupant of a tile, his allegiance to the acting unit is returned as well. When retrieving a list of all targets within the attack range of a tile, a list can be retrieved based on allegiance, for example GetTargetableEnemies(X, Y). When searching, conditions for tile occupants and target list can be specified by allegiance.
Changes/bug fixes:
- All customization functions are moved from LevelGrid to IGridActor interface. This means that all unit-terrain and unit-unit interaction is now defined by IGridActor. Your implementation of the customizing functions dicitates the behavior. Please refer to the User Guide - Section 3 on how to implement the IGridActor functions.
- Due to a change to blueprint interfaces in 4.7 the previous version of the plugin would give compile errors. This has now been solved, the plugin has been tested and works with 4.7 Preview 8.
Last but not least, the user guide is now complete! Its targeted at the newest version of the plugin. You can download it from: http://www.zkshao.com/downloads/TBStrategyGrids_UserGuide.pdf