Hexagon Tile System - Array Implementation?

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#1

Recently, I’ve been trying to get hired, but sadly, everybody asks if I have a complete game I can showcase. Because the only personal project I’ve actually made is trash, there is no way I’m going to get hired.

So, I’m thinking of making a game based on Civilizations. I would love to tell you all about it, but that’s not what I’m here for.

In Civilizations, you use a hexagon grid to build buildings and move units. I was curious how I could implement such a grid in Roblox. Here is one of the only things I thought of:

Using a giant array of arras to display rows. For example

local tiles = {
    --Tile data, states, and type would go here instead of numbers
    {1, 2, 3)
    {1, 2}
    {1, 2, 3}

Then, the generation code could create tiles using the length of each array inside a dictionary, and generate rows of hexagon meshes using that data.

I was curious if my method could be refined, or a new one would be better.

Thanks!

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Positioning hex tiles
#2

This is the best article I’ve read about this topic. It’s relevant to game programming in general, and wasn’t written specifically with roblox in mind, but it’s still very applicable.

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#3

Just curious, is there any specific strategy you are suggesting from that article? I’m just curious.

#4

Ok. Because I didn’t want to make the axial coordinates listed there, I went with the offset coordinates as these are very easy to take a tile from, and I didn’t want a hexagon map anyways. Thanks for the resource!

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#5

Alternatively, what I did for my game which has really no way of identifying objects (rasterizer) is when they were instanced I would put them in a array and would call them specifically based on important stuff needed to identify, then from there I used OOP to get the rest.

 local vertex = makeVertex.new()
 list["vertex-serial-"..tostring(1).."-local-"tostring(5)] = vertex

For removing them I would simply use garbage collection

for name, _ in pairs(list) do
  if name == "vertex%-serial%-1%-local%-5" then
    name = nil

 end
end
gcinfo()

this basically does what :Destroy() does to instances, if we just did name = nil we could still access the memory address but gcinfo() permanently removes it from the bank iirc.

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