Turn Based Strategy Grids [Released] [Many images]

[Zhi_Kang_Shao]

@RalphTrickey;228730

Thanks, but I think I asked the wrong question. I’ve got my own pathfinding, etc. written in C++, I was thinking about using your library as a front-end to save me some time instead of creating my own.

I’m concerned about the drawing speed. On a PC, I’d like to be able to display a 80x50 grid with textures. Actually, I’ll probably need to implement a virtual grid and do some of my own scrolling for larger maps, up to about 200x200 or larger.

On a mobile device, I could probably get by with about 30x30 onscreen or possibly less.

On another thread on this forum I saw someone complaining about the performance he was seeing while drawing hexagons. Since each hexagon has only 4 triangles, performance shouldn’t be an issue, but I don’t know how you wrote the library or how unreal engine combines the triangles.

I’ve done a prototype in OpenGL and it flies but would be hard to convert as it is, and senseless if I can buy something instead ;).

Thanks,
Ralph

The display of the hexagons is done using instanced static mesh components (ISMs). The LevelGrid creates an ISM for every terrain type during its construction script- where the mesh of each ISM is a hexagon plane (no sides/3D) and the material is the simplest color material where the color is selected from terrain type. I don’t think there is any more performance to be gained other than advanced manual culling mechanisms.

You mentioned wanting to get rid of the outlines before- the scale of the tiles is what causes the hex outlines, I scale my tiles by 0.9 to create the outlines but you can have them align perfectly if you leave the scale at 1. You can modify the scales used in the LevelGrid ‘RefreshTerrainPreview’ function.

My LevelGrid blueprint should be perfect for displaying tiles as simple colored tiles, and managing unit positions if you want that. I understand the preference to do path finding in C++ perfectly.