Hexagonal Tiles

How to find adjacent tiles in hexagonal maps – ALL and EVERY case explained and managed by a single file.

There are four types of hexagon tile based maps, according to hexagon placement, number of rows and columns, but I wrote a single script to manage them all, with four HTML5 examples powered by Phaser. Full source code available.

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on December 2, 2020

Finding adjacent cells in an hex map – part 2

In the Finding adjacent cells in an hex map post I showed you how to find adjacent cells in horizontal hex maps. Now it’s time to find adjacent cells in vertical hex maps. hexagon_width = 44; hexagon_height = 38; grid_x_size = 10; grid_y_size = 12; sector_width = hexagon_width/4*3; sector_height = hexagon_height; gradient = (hexagon_width/4)/(hexagon_height/2); for …

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on April 27, 2008

Finding adjacent cells in an hex map

This tutorial continues Hex maps creation and rollover. Now I will show you how find adjacent cells. Again, at the moment it’s only code, and it only works for horizontal hex maps hexagon_width = 38; hexagon_height = 44; grid_x_size = 12; grid_y_size = 10; sector_width = hexagon_width; sector_height = hexagon_height/4*3; gradient = (hexagon_height/4)/(hexagon_width/2); for (x=0; …

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on April 23, 2008

Hex maps creation and rollover

This is just a quick, uncommented snippet of code I made starting from Coordinates in Hexagon-Based Tile Maps tutorial I found at GameDev.net. The article does not cover all hex maps, just horizontal ones. Read Understanding hexagonal tiles to know something more about hex maps. Also, the pseudo code shown in the article has some …

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on April 20, 2008

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// 1+2=3
// 100 rounds
// 10000000
// 2 Cars
// 2048
// A Blocky Christmas
// A Jumping Block
// A Life of Logic
// Angry Birds
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// Artillery
// Astro-PANIC!
// Avoider
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// CubesOut
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