How to make Hexagonal maps? (C#,GDI+/DirtectX)
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Hi community,
does anyone have some code which shows how to draw a
hexagonal map and keep track of all hexagons?
I can draw a single hexagon at the moment, but i have
no clue how to make a complete map and even more
i need to know how i can index the hexagons, so that
i can access them later (so for example: hex[1,3].XXX)
with clicking on it with a mouse.
I am using C# and GDI+ or Directx (the API depends
on where i can find more understandable examples for).
Since i am a noob, please try to explain as easy as possible.
Thanks for your time!
How are you organising them? If like this:
a: (0,0)
b: (1,0)
c: (0,1)
d: (1,1)
e: (0,2)
f: (1,2)
g: (0,3)
(It's easier if you imagine them rotated 90°, but ASCII art gets mucky then). It's just a case of remembering that every other row is shifting along half a unit when displayed. In terms of detecting a click, a bounding-box test for four corners would be alright for an easy method.
__ __ __/a \__/b \./c \__/d \__/\__/e \__/f \./g \__/ \__/\__/ \__/ \./ \__/ \__/\__/ \__/a: (0,0)
b: (1,0)
c: (0,1)
d: (1,1)
e: (0,2)
f: (1,2)
g: (0,3)
(It's easier if you imagine them rotated 90°, but ASCII art gets mucky then). It's just a case of remembering that every other row is shifting along half a unit when displayed. In terms of detecting a click, a bounding-box test for four corners would be alright for an easy method.
In my game X-hex X-HEX I referenced them from tope left being 1 .. bottom right being the last hex .. So I referenced then like so:
__ __
__/4 \__/10\.
/1 \__/7 \__/
\__/5 \__/11\.
/2 \__/8 \__/
\__/6 \__/12\.
/3 \__/9 \__/
\__/ \__/
EDIT: my hexes turned out crappy, I'm not good with the formatting :)
__ __
__/4 \__/10\.
/1 \__/7 \__/
\__/5 \__/11\.
/2 \__/8 \__/
\__/6 \__/12\.
/3 \__/9 \__/
\__/ \__/
EDIT: my hexes turned out crappy, I'm not good with the formatting :)
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