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RyanW · 06-07-2017, 10:52 PM

A thing I did once while programming a game, and can't think of a better place to put it, was numbering columns sequentially, and rows alternatively odd and even.

So column 2 would have its hexes labeled 22, 24, 26, 28, etc., column 3 would have 31, 33, 35, 37, etc., and hex 33 would be surrounded by (clockwise from the "north") 31, 42, 44, 35, 24, and 22. This makes it easy to calculate the screen position a token needs to be drawn at, and distance between two hexes is easy to calculate in a program, as (ABS(X1-X2)+ABS(Y1-Y2))/2.

06-07-2017, 10:52 PM	#5
RyanW ☣ Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Southeast NC	Re: [Space] Planetary maps A thing I did once while programming a game, and can't think of a better place to put it, was numbering columns sequentially, and rows alternatively odd and even. So column 2 would have its hexes labeled 22, 24, 26, 28, etc., column 3 would have 31, 33, 35, 37, etc., and hex 33 would be surrounded by (clockwise from the "north") 31, 42, 44, 35, 24, and 22. This makes it easy to calculate the screen position a token needs to be drawn at, and distance between two hexes is easy to calculate in a program, as (ABS(X1-X2)+ABS(Y1-Y2))/2. __________________ RyanW - Actually one normal sized guy in three tiny trenchcoats.