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Tessellating tiles for use as 2d-histogram bins, game boards, etc.

Hexagonal tiles are tessellating hexagons placed adjacently to each other.

The use of this tag is fairly broad, encompassing statistics, computer science and game design.

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Highlighting neighboring hexagons on mouseover

I've been trying to port my love2D game into unity for the past day and I've come across one main issue at the moment: I can't replicate the neighbor highlighting. The issue is: If I go from hovering over one hexagon to another, if the hexagon I've…
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Mouse position offset by camera position

In my game, I need to get the hexagon that is underneath the mouse. This worked fine before I added a camera system to allow me to have bigger hexagon grids that go off-screen. If I move the camera, it starts acting weird and not getting the correct…
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Java - Hexagon location in grid

Im searching for an algorythem to get the location of a hexagon in a grid. I found this one but it doesnt seam to work: for(int i = 0; i < width; i++) { for(int j = 0; j < height; j++) { grid[i][j] = new…
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Distance calculation in wraparound hexagonal map

So I'm trying to get the basic calculations for an hexagonal tiled map. I'm using a rhombus style map as shown in this classic gem (check the "rhombus" option): https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/#map-storage In my maps, R and Q are not…
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determine if a particular pixel is within a shape processing

I'm creating an image filter that will create a honeycomb effect by finding the averages of groups of hexagons. This code will generate a grid of hexagons for any given size, and will eventually be limited to the size of the canvas: float unitSize =…
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How to convert x y coordinates to hexbin center coordinates

I'm aware of the hexbin package, but I don't want to summarize the data at this point. I don't draw my plots in R, so I have no need for hexbin objects or many other things in this package. I simply want to convert/round each point's coordinates to…
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Changing surrounding neighbor hexagons to "line" fill mode

I'm trying to make a hexagon grid-based game. I've got some of the fundamentals down (implemented getting neighbors of a hexagon since the library didn't natively have it and also made it so I can recolor each individual hexagon), but I can't seem…
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Get coordinates of adjacent hexagon tiles in a coordinate system

I want to highlight tiles in range of a unit which is placed in a system of hexagonal tiles. For example if I place a unit with range=2 on 6|5, I want to highlight 5|4, 6|4, 7|4, 7|5, 6|6, 5|5, 4|5, 4|4, 5|3 and so on... How can I calculate those…
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A-Star Pathfinding | Hexagonal Grip

I'm a newbie and I'm facing such an awkward problem: . It seems like the algorithm has swallowed an extra hex. Could anybody point to my mistake? So here is the code: ('ob' that appears in 1 and 2 is set of 'obstacles') 1.Pathfinding func: private…
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Using hexagonal image as button

I have a problem: I want to make a honeycomb shape in which every hexagon is a clickable button, but don't know how. I tried to make it by Button() and window() from Tkinter, but its shape is rectangluar. I need its shape to be hexagonal. EDIT: I…
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Trying to fill Hexagon shape with color

I'm drawing a 2d grid of hexagons using the DrawPolygon function. Works great, but I'm trying to figure out how to fill them with a certain color. It would appear the FillEllipse function is only meant for rectangles. Is there something I could…
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Spritekit Hexagonal map: tile detection in end SKAction.

I ask this question because i didn't found any solution for this kind of issues. In fact Hex map support are not very popular. I'am making a game with the SpriteKit Framework. I use SktileMapNode with an Hexagonal map, with 1 set of 4 groups…
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Update canvas on mouse events

I've created a hexagonal grid using this JS library. The grid does get properly painted onto the Canvas. My issue is with trying to introduce events on mouse events. For instance, when I hover over a certain hexagon I want it's background color to…
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What is easiest way to move towards and along the edge on a hex grid?

I have a hexagonal grid with variable radius. My entity can move exacly 2 hexes per turn. How should I calculate next step towards border and afterwards travelling clockwise around map? Preferred movement at the boundary Character should stay at the…
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Hexagon grid - paths incorrect

I am writing a program that uses a hexagon map (obviously in the output seen below it appears as a square, but the numbers will make sense for a hexagon shape) to generate a path from a certain point. 0 indicates the goal, -2 indicates an off limits…
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