Looking at different types of tile arrays, Seems like an octagonal array would be the most flexible for a 2d rpg but i cant see any articles on people implementing them. Why is this?
2D octagonal tile map?
I'm not sure what you mean by a octagonal array. If you mean a map made up of regular octagons, the primary problem would be that regular octagons don't tessellate.
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I'm not sure what you mean by a octagonal array. If you mean a map made up of regular octagons, the primary problem would be that regular octagons don't tessellate.
Ah ok, I see now. pitty
Yup, the big issue is that the only shapes that by themselves tesselate a 2D plane are triangles, quadrilaterals, and hexagons.
No, there are other shapes that have monohedral tessellations. The Hirschhorn tiling, for example, uses a single pentagon shape. They just aren't useful for conventional game maps.
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