Preset Formation for Grid battles

RylanParal

I followed the Tutorial listed for creating a grid-style battle in a turn-based setting. I was looking around to see if there was a setting or functionality for presetting or using a prefab for unit placements for both the User and AI as the battle grid will not change much. So ideally it would be a menu option like equipment to set spawn locations for the player and once the battle starts there is no selection stage but they simply load in formation around a preset spawning area.

While playing around with the formation tool I couldn't really find a way to change any of those settings dynamically. If there is functionality for this in Ork that would be greatly appreciated to know.

A visual reference of what I am describing if the language is not clear.

https://i.gyazo.com/9d213c31e2c3ce9a0994a0ef95ca9a53.png

The coloured areas would be preset in a menu on spawn location of units, the colour indicating and individual unit. But if the colours could each be numbered and ser the party in order, that would also work.

gamingislove

Hm, it's somewhat possible, but there's no menu for that selecting that.

You can get grid cells from cell coordinates (e.g. stored in a Vector3 variable) and place your combatants on them via the event system.

Since the battle start event only works on the whole group at once, you need to use a Custom Event on your combatants and call that from the battle start event to place each individual combatant on their position.

You can set up default custom events for all combatants in Battle System > Battle Settings in the Default Events settings. A custom event is simply a game event that can be started on a combatant via the Custom Combatant Event node and is identified by the event key.

The game event would use a Grid Cell From Coordinate node to find the cell and a Set Grid Cell Combatant node to place the combatant on that cell. You can e.g. use an object variable on the combatant to store the cell's coordinates.