Comments on: Understanding hexagonal tiles

By: B

Wed, 19 May 2010 02:48:29 +0000

Your formula in the hexagon diagram is slightly off. The longer side of the right triangle should be “side” x sin60, OR “side” x cos30. Nice work otherwise!!

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:10:00 +0000

Your stuff on hexagons is interesting. Maybe you will like the way that I have used the concept for my Hexidek. If you google the word, you ought to find some pics online.

By: Halloween Couples : Emanuele Feronato

Halloween Couples : Emanuele Feronato — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:27:30 +0000

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By: Developing hex map concept : Emanuele Feronato

Developing hex map concept : Emanuele Feronato — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:36:24 +0000

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By: Douglas Huskins

Douglas Huskins — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:03:00 +0000

About 10 years ago, I wrote a collection of functions that would help a person navigate hex maps. The functions included: Identifying the adjacent hexes, identifying the shortest path between two hexes, the relative position of a hex from the perspective of another hex and the distance between two hexes.

Let me see if I can find that code and I will send it to you.

By: xklamatok

xklamatok — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:23:18 +0000

another way to figure out the height of a hexagon (V-Hex style as per your example):
Pythagoras sez:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
we know c which is the radius and a which is half the radius.
So we are looking for sqrt(c^2 – a^2) or sqrt(3/4)*radius.
i guess one of them might be faster, like a 2.345 milliseconds :D

By: engin

engin — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:48:47 +0000

Your hexagon diagram is wrong.
Side * cos(60) should be Side * cos(30) or Side * sin(60) I think (:

Thx for the excellent tutorials btw.

By: Hex maps creation and rollover : Emanuele Feronato - italian geek and PROgrammer

Hex maps creation and rollover : Emanuele Feronato - italian geek and PROgrammer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:18:30 +0000

[...] article does not cover all hex maps, just horizontal ones. Read Understanding hexagonal tiles to know something more about hex [...]

By: Odds & Ends: April 17, 2008

Odds & Ends: April 17, 2008 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:20:36 +0000

[...] A short overview of hexagonal tiles, or “hexes” to you wargamers in the crowd, from “italian geek and PROgrammer” Emanuele Feronato [...]

By: JDog

JDog — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:50:48 +0000

Emanuele you forgot about Hexic, the best game in the world to feature Hexagons !