Grid move for larger combatants

Vlastan

I created a combatant with a grid cell size larger than 1. During it's turn in combat, the combat ai can't fire the grid move event, so the ai ends up doing nothing.

Here's the node i use in the combat ai: https://dropbox.com/s/xi38yf8fg7umb5e/GridMove.jpg?dl=0

How can i make it work for these kind of combatants?

gamingislove

Generally that should work like with a cell size of 1 - it just needs more space. Is there enough room for the combatant to actually move?

Vlastan

Yes, i have plenty of space on the grid

gamingislove

Is a player with a larger grid size able to move? Since they both use the same functionality for pathfinding, if it works for the player, it should also work for the enemy. It might be an issue with your AI setup in that case, e.g. not having a target to move to.

Edit: Did a quick test and it works in my project, tested with a 2x2 size - both player and enemy could move.

Vlastan

If i set up the player combatant with a larger grid size it works and i am able to move it around the grid.

Here's a screen of the other nodes in the combat AI.

A curious thing i noticed is switching the move type in the grid move event to random, will result in the npc correctly moving around the map. So i guess it could be something about not being able to find the target position.

gamingislove

Hm, tested it with the same setup and works fine here. If random movement is possible but not to the target, it either doesn't have a found target (though that'd not be possible due to the Get Nearest node before), or there's no path to the target.

I assume both combatants are on the grid (otherwise they can't move on it) and are enemies?

Vlastan

They are on the same grid and the big combatant is set to the enemy faction. In fact, if the player is placed into the enemy combatant's melee range, it will correctly receive attacks as statet by the battle a.i.

Edit: I set Move Over Enemies to True in battle grid settings and this made the combatant move near the player. However i am not sure this should be the correct solution. Maybe it could create unwanted side effects?

Edit2: indeed it doesn't seem right as the larger combatant always ends its movement one cell inside the target (resulting in mesh compenetration) also i don't really want for combatant to move over themselves

gamingislove

Something in your setup is interfering, though I'm not really sure what. It works fine here, with or without Move Over Enemies (or also Move Over Allies) enabled.

I think it'd be best if you can send me a small Unity test project with your setup where this issue occurs. You can reduce the size of the project by deleting the Library folder in the Unity project's folder :) Upload it e.g. to dropbox and send me the link to contact@orkframework.com.

Vlastan

@gamingislove I changed the maximum distance from target destination in the grid node of the battle ai to 2 instead of 1. Now it seems to work correctly. Do you think this could be the cause of it not working before?

gamingislove

Can you give me some details on your combatant's grid size set up?

Vlastan

Sure,here's a screen. Maybe i'm setting this wrong?

gamingislove

Hm, yeah, seems there's an issue - I'll look into it.

gamingislove

Alright, I've looked into it. The issue is that the combatant can't reach the target cell due to it's size, i.e. your changed maximum distance is the solution for this.

Generally, using a larger maximum distance with the Nearest target cell will move to the nearest possible cell to the target, so taking the largest size your combatants can have should do the trick, e.g. in this example, a grid size of 1 means it'll need a maximum size of 2 to take the extra cell around the combatant's actual cell into account.

Vlastan

So in the move event i should set the maximum cell distance according to the largest combatant i have in the game.

gamingislove

Either that or have separate battle AI with that grid move setup for large combatants.

Vlastan

All right, thank you for the answers