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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Creating a hex game board

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Kingspud
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Hello all,

Does anyone know how to create a hex game board?
I would like to create a game that uses different size hex boards and can't seem to find any code.
Once I have the hex board then made some help on whether it would be easier to create gif or bmp image files for the hexes in the game board?
Thanks for any help!
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 6th Jan 2006 22:50
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You can just make one in a drawing program and load that into your program. Keep away from .gif (won't load) and .jpg (bad color). Use .png (transparencies) or .bmp (flawless big files).


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I can see how that would work with a single large image but what if I want to use separate hexes? The image is going to want to set as a square and not a hex??!?!?
How do I get the 6 sides to work instead of 4?
Thanks
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unless you come up with a fancy routine, i don't think you'll get away from the 'square' images. but, you can make a tileable square image with the hex result using some basic copy and paste functions and a little thought.

consider the attached 'square'/tile. the dimensions on it are not perfect so don't use this as your master; you'll have to do some experimenting that i'm not willing to do right now, but you get the idea. if something like this was your basic 'tile', you could copy the right parts as squares with the hex result you're looking for. you will notice that it is comprised of 3 complete hexes, re-arranged to form a square. there are many possible ways that i can think of to work with this idea, and i'm confident that you'll be able to find an easy-enough way to achieve your desired results. hope this helps get you on track. it may not be the best way, but being such a novice programmer myself, i tend to approach things in a very simplistic manner.

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Have fun

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Posted: 8th Jan 2006 04:32 Edited at: 8th Jan 2006 04:34
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Quote: "I can see how that would work with a single large image but what if I want to use separate hexes? The image is going to want to set as a square and not a hex??!?!?
How do I get the 6 sides to work instead of 4?
Thanks"


Because Darkbasic considers black as transparent by default you just need a single hex that has black at the edges. Then make a routine to switch the starting y coordinate at every other column.

I didn't put "sync on" in this code snip to show what it's doing.


Edit: The image used is attached to this message.


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