Davide Guida | my personal thoughts about life, coding, the universe and everything.

I feel bored. Sometimes I feel so bored that I start walking around as if I were on a tiled map. And sometimes I like to switch from rectangular to hex-shaped tiles 😀

I’ve started working on a hex-based map renderer, just because, as I said. I’m bored.

Here’re the results so far:

And this is the tile texture:

I’m using XNA 4 (yeah I know, but that’s easy and I love to do everything by myself). Here’s part of the rendering code:

_hexTexture = this.Content.Load<Texture2D>("hex");
_hexOffset = new Vector2(_hexTexture.Width * 0.75f, -_hexTexture.Height * 0.5f);
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spriteBatch.Begin();
var hexPos = Vector2.Zero;
for (int y = 0; y != 10; ++y)
 {

 hexPos.Y = _hexTexture.Height * y * .5f;
 hexPos.X = _hexOffset.X * y;

for (int x = 0; x != 10; ++x)
 {

 hexPos += _hexOffset;
 spriteBatch.Draw(_hexTexture, hexPos, Color.White);

 }
}
spriteBatch.End();

Easy huh?