Currently, I’ve created this method of generating hexes for a map I’m making.
However, I don’t know how to properly position the hexagons into a proper hex map to get a result like this.
I’m working on rewriting a strategy game involving hexagonal tiles, the article from Red Blob Games and another from CatLikeCoding helped me achieve this.
The horizontal distance (as mentioned in the Red Blob Games article), is 1/2 of the tile’s width. The vertical distance, is 3/4 of the tile’s height.
To generate a small, rectangular area of hexagonal tiles, you can do the following:
local tile = workspace.Tile
--! change these values to match the X and Z size of your tile mesh.
local tileWidth = 3.464
local tileHeight = 4
local gridWidth = 24
local gridHeight = 24
function AddTile( xPosition: number, zPosition: number )
xPosition *= tileWidth
--? we offset the second row slightly by 1/2 the tile's width.
if zPosition % 2 == 0 then
xPosition += tileWidth * 0.5
end
zPosition *= tileHeight * 0.75
local tile = tile:Clone()
tile.CFrame = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(xPosition, 0, zPosition))
tile.Parent = workspace
end
for zPos = 1, gridWidth do
for xPos = 1, gridHeight do
AddTile(xPos, zPos)
end
end
At the end of it, you should have something like this:
