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Most of what you ask is already integrated in ork, for instance #2 and #3 is already taken care of by the turn based system, all you need to do is define your stuff in a formula. Blocking, hit miss and criticals are all covered too, unless you have a custom battle system that doesn't use status values. You should check the game tutorial that showcase all ork features, that would save you a lot of time so you don't have to code stuff that already exist.

Been messing around with the script you gave me in your answer to Question #2. I have "combatant" in my script as Public Combatant combatant; which works fine and gives me access to the combatant. But I can't for the life of me find the code necessary to call the commands the same as in the battle menu. (Attack, Defend, Item, Abilities, Move, End) like Item would bring up the Item list for me to comb through rather than a shortcut to directly choose a specific item. I'm sure this is actually quite simple but it's been flying over my head, thanks again for your help.
For reference...
combatant.BattleMenu.StartTargetSelection(shortcut, false);
UPDATE: Was able to get Attack and Defend working via control maps, still working on the others.

Back from the holiday and back at it; thanks again GIL for your e-mail and quick insight on my menu problem, I've scrapped the animations and am re-stylizing my battle menu to move forward. So of course with that comes another question.
10) I'd like the initial menu to have the normal options (Attack, Move, Item, Defend) but I want them tied to specific buttons. Like for Item you should hit the "#2 button" then the Item menu would appear that you would navigate normally via the arrow keys and select an item with the accept key. Or hit the "#3 button" for abilities then the ability list menu appears. I guess I'm describing a hotkey? Is there an option in ORK for this? Otherwise I'm thinking of adding a script to the battle menu that listens for certain button presses and then calls that particular function, like if it hears the #2 button then the Item command is called.

Awesome!
I was thinking about how to use Grid AI to create interesting tactical combat and one thing that would be really helpful I think is if we could have a few actions for grid cells. Like for example
#1) Search for specific Grid Cells and order AI to go to them. Cell could be searched by Cell Type, and perhaps Cell could have additional metadata attached to it like Importance/Priority.
This can be used to force AI to find cover, To force Archer to go to higher ground, to have enemy swarm and close off choke points.
#2) Ability to setup more grid cell avoidance rules, preferably with conditional checks. Like for example if enemy has high spot skill, they will avoid trapped cells, Everyone would avoid Lava but Lava monsters will walk through it etc.
I think a lot of cool stuff can be done with these two functions.
And as a small, specific case feature:
#3) Which cell to target around enemy, when enemy target is designated and AI walks towards it. This can be used for example to position enemies to do Backstabs.

I want to make a turn-based game where you can parry an enemy that attacks you by pressing a button at the right time. The player would then automatically do a riposte. Basically, I want to mix Dark Souls with Paper Mario. If you've somehow never played those, I'll show you what I mean...
So it would play like this:

...but the animation would look a little more like this:

I'm a beginner here on #24 of the Game Tutorials. I just want to make sure that something like this would be possible before I put too much time in or purchase the full version of ORK. Thanks!

I have set my cursor icon in UNITY. I have set the same cursor icon as the default cursor in ORK under the Menu Settings.
I see the default cursor while in the main menu screen and my custom party creation screen(outside of ORK).
Once in game, the cursor reverts to the system cursor.
Is there some place else I need to set the cursor to avoid the system cursor from being displayed?
EDIT: I think a 3rd party system might be overriding the cursor settings :)
EDIT #2: Yes, UFPS overwrites the default cursor in the editor. However, builds work just fine.

#2: In Menus > GUI Boxes > Base Settings > Height Adjustment set to None instead of Auto?

Hi Squeaker,
I can chime in on #2 and #3 while we wait for Gil.
2.) I'm also thinking ahead about this issue. Although I have not tried it yet, I'm pretty sure GiL would have made some sort of "Orient Player on Grid" Event node that you can add to the end of the Move Event to make this happen. Again , I haven't tried doing so yet but I will be there in the next day or two and will let you know my findings.
3.) Yes you can rotate the tile in scene visually. Additionally you can have a slope angle set to your choosing.I wouldn't go higher than 45 and ORK will automatically rotate tiles when generating the grid in scene when it encounters a "Rock" or some sort of geometry with a Mesh collider on it. But in your case it's probably best to custom adjust the grid to your battle board and you can definitely do it by hand in your scene editor once you add the grid. Each tile is movable/rotatable.

For #2, you can have a status value that represents the combatants' critical hit skill and use that value as the basis for your critical hit chance formula. You can then set up Status Upgrade costs for that status value (I believe it's in the Status Developments section).

To very briefly answer your questions, all of them are Yes, these are doable. Most of them are more directly answerable if you go read through the tutorials and how-tos - you can see for example how to change the GUI to match whatever you want, and how the save data interface works (for your own stuff). For #1 and #2 that's all done from within the included event system - you'll just need to hook in some variable or quest condition checks and it's all straightforward from there.
Also go browse the API (http://api.orkframework.com/) to see everything that's exposed for your own scripting.

Thanks again for your speedy response.
It is a shame #2 cannot be done. I thought it might have been as simple ensuring the combatant selection menu was filtered by combatant type or class. Maybe this could be done using a different menu global event per 'class' and force assign/leave group.

I followed the tutorial; need my character's helmet to always be displayed. I have all game states on 'ignore' and set up the equipment viewers as directed. When I click on preview I see the helmet, but not during the game. I make sure the preview clone is removed before running the test so as to not create any issues. So why is the preview showing but not the real thing?

There are some pretty big issues with these (what I thought were fairly simple) screens that I'm having, so I'll list them here:
#1: I can't set an image background to the Select AutoSave Slot Menu! Ack!

#2: I CAN set a background to the Load Screen, which is great, but unfortunately I can't force 'Cancel' to be the (Last) fourth Choice. Since there's only two selections available on this menu, ORK picks the top two Choices to be SLOT1 and Cancel.

How can I force a specific button to be 'Cancel'?
#3: Changing cursor size depending on the choice being highlighted. The Back button is way smaller, but I only have a huge cursor available...

For #2 I did try disabling the auto stop in fact, and it does work correctly then. I'm just worried if i'll later run into the problem with combatants running around in circles of their target etc. that the Auto Stop is supposed to prevent. With my current combatants I've tested this they DO seem to stop at their target without running in circles around it, so it seems disabling Auto Stop is ok for now. If I run into trouble with it later I can post again, that second point was sort of preemptive :)

You are correct, I'm being dumb and tired, an event was causing the render issue. (Issue #2)
And I finally found out the issue: My player prefab's root had an inactive mesh renderer hidden in there. Moved it, and now everything's working like a charm.
Thanks for your patience, GiL. Happy to finally get it working. :)

Using the latest version of ORK (2.3.0 I think), I've made it through the tutorial to #23: Battle Start Events. In working on the event when I get to Play Sound and change the object to Waypoint, there are no waypoints for me to select Arena. Did something change between the time the tut was written and the recent versions which would require me to do something else before the waypoint is available?
Other than this issue, the tutorial has worked flawlessly. Can see where things have changed/been added, but up to this point I haven't had any issues.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions of where to look to resolve this so I can keep pushing forward!
Shawn

Hello, I'm using turn based battles and I'm trying to figure out a way for combatants to move up to an unused battle spot if someone is defeated. For example, I'm fighting 4 enemies and I defeat enemy #2. Enemy #3 moves up to enemy #2's battle spot and enemy #4 moves up to enemy #3's battle spot. I spent some time looking around and I didn't see any obvious ways to do this. Is it possible? Thanks.

You would set this in your battle end event(s). Do you just want to play a random different thing for each battle end or a set order of specific commands, so that #2 always follows #1?
If the former, just add a Random node and set up the camera and play sound node for each combatant, with each combatant being assigned to one of the Random outs. You can then join the different speeches up afterwards to the same continuing node and move on with your battle event as normal. (I wouldn't make like a separate end event for each combatant variation). Here's a crappy example using a random node which picks between one of two possible camera positions before continuing on to the same Wait node.
If you did always want a set order, you could instead use the same idea but set up a global variable counter that stores which number you're on, and then a check variable step that references that variable for which combatant speech to play. After playing the speech, change the variable so that the next time the event plays, the next combatant speech down the list will be picked.

i have different voice audio that plays when battle is finish..
my question is how can i set a variation when the battle ends
e.g combatant #1 play his speech when the battle ends then in the next battle combatant #2 play his speech when the battle ends

Been trying to figure out how to get unistorm to spawn with your player with out screwing up so far ive gotten 2 things to happen
#1 : I spawn it like normal and it spawns the character in the sky and you fall in to the endless abyss
#2 : i use the player as the main part of the prefab and it spawns the character normal but then the sky moves with the player which means no dynamic sky.
anyone been successful with this yet?