Why are they so fucking common?
I am tired of this shit, every fucking game has hexagons. Hexagons here, hexagons there, hexagons everyfuckingwhere.
Dear devs, please use another fucking polygon, hexagons are so fucking overused it's not cool anymore.
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>mfw a squarefag spews his crap near me
I bet you prefer diagonal movement on a square grid too.
Only Sup Forums could get mad about hexagons.
Name a stronger pattern/structure.
The honeycomb/hexagon is structurally superior to any other design. Just take a look at graphene.
>mfw so many years of squares and hexagons
Square > Hex grid
Yes it's because the diagonal makes it actually more complex and less stifling
I'm developing a game and I found a great pack of hexagon buildings, very rich assets all for free. Previously I was just going to use squares. Hexagons give a better feeling of "building a civilization", they're a bit more dynamic and I'm gonna go now bye~
Is this a Halo 4 and 5 thread?
>Triangles
>~
Why not triangles? Triangles are objectively the best shape.
OP is a fag
Trianglefags are cancerous as fuck. Go back to >Reddit.
Fuck you, hexagons are great.
6 triangles = 1 hexagon
Absolutely disgusting
Put enough of them together and you're back to fucking hexagons.
The only option left is circles, and it will be years before we achieve perfect roundness. Until then we'll have to stick to horizontally oriented trapezoid particles, shields, buildings, waist barriers, armor effects, etc
Civ is what I thought of first and that OP was retarded, but I don't think he's talking about hex grids. I think he means the overshield and armor textures every scifi game uses.
Devs should take a second look at Jak & Daxter architecture, and come up with something from there.
Hexagon is literally a perfect shape.
t. bee
>Some kind of random mix between curves and hexagons.
Um, ew?
Are you seriously complaining about the use of a geometric shape that's been proven over and over again to be the best design choice?
Variety for the sake of variety is pointless, user, especially if there's a solution that's clearly superior to others.
Or would you like to use Roman numerals in games more often as well?
Leave. Fuck you. Tell your friends to stop flying up my shorts. Happened twice this year and it's not fucking cool.
Hexagons are the Cirno of shapes.
t. engineer
Sequels that don't use Roman numerals disgust me.
There is no better shape than a hexagon. The shape with the largest number of sides that perfectly link together without leaving any gaps. The most structurally sound shape when many of them are tiled together.
Squares meanwhile are the trashiest shape. Squares are for squares.
Also useful for medicine, benzene is in most meds.
T. Biochem fag
Call me superstitious, but triangles heal cancer. Naturally. No chemicals.
>Name a stronger pattern/structure.
Why should I care about structure strenght in a videogame?
lol
Don't reply to me ever again.
lol
Digital strength = physical strength
Is there a single game that uses penrose tiling? It's seriously under appreciated considering how natural yet at the same time architectural it feels
CIRCLE MASTER RACE
Kek best post I've seen in a while
For a second I thought you were the floorfag.
It's tilefag, show some respect.
My bad, seems like my Alzheimer is getting to me.
You circlefags are so fucking retarded it's unreal
Name ONE GAME that does circles well
ONE GAME
Oh come on user, you're being irrational here.
what the fuck is that pattern even
Circles are easier to code. It's just so fucking lazy.
>dodges the question
LMFAO
You can't argue with circucks. They're fucking retarded. I doubt they even play video games.
Because movement on hex grid maps 1:1 to real terrain (as opposed to diagonal movement on square grid being ~1.41 units) while offering the greatest number of movement directions on regular tiling while doing so. Because smoother 60 degree angles are reasonably good at approximating real geographic features. Because it translates neatly to cones and spheres when dealing with range and area of effect mechanics. Because there's countless game systems utilizing hex grid you can borrow ideas from already (as opposed to something unorthodox like truncated square tiling). Etc.
There basically are two sensible options for tiling, hexes and squares, and hexes win on most counts in most situations. There are some potential advantages to square grid (if you don't care about correct mapping of distance traveled to tiles traversed, squares offer more movement directions, squares map better to terrain like city streets, and there are some ways to make AoE/range calculations more sensible on square grid than in naive implementations) but the others are pretty much nonsensical in every regard.
Enjoy your floats, circlefags.
>Implying.
Circle thread?
Circle thread.
I'm not even that guy, I just wanted to make a really shitty joke.
Reminder that circles and polygons are mutually exclusive shapes and as such circles are off topic in polygon threads.
Sup Forums is a polygonal board. Please take circleposting elsewhere
>one good circle characters
>circle fags parade him out every chance they get.
You got fucking lucky with Kirby, all over circles are shit. SHIT.
If you're talking about tilings, then circles are essentially hexagons. The densest packing of circles gives you 6 neighbors.
>benzene is in most meds
You meant phenyl groups and substituted phenyl rings, right?
I just want to go straight to the right. Why do I have to zigzag the entire way?
The number of moves is the same
Because we live in an universe with shitty mathematics. If I was a God about to create the universe, I'd make sure octagons tiled regularly because that'd be the best of both worlds.
Option 1: Take wide detours because it'll take just as long.
Option 2: Stumble around like a drunk.
Best shape then?
The only 2 other options are squares and triangles so its not like they are ever going away.
Octagons?
gotta start thinking hyperbolically son
I'm with but to be an annoying pedant: triangles. a triangle cannot change shape without deforming at least one side, unlike squares/pentagons etc. which have the option of flattening
In a great deal of scenarios that isn't exactly a problem given that most real-world terrain isn't like a highway built on plains or Brutalist city planning (I was about to say an Autobahn but looked at some pictures in Google image search and curves were fairly common).
But let's consider a comparison to square grid in terms of movement rules. Firstly, hexagons offer higher more directions of movement (an extremely easy way to increase the number of options available to the player) than square grid does without diagonal movement and in that case you can present a counterargument: "why do you have to take huge detours to move directly diagonally?" which is basically the same deal so square grid certainly doesn't win here.
On the other hand, if diagonal movement is allowed, it's not just that you can take a similar detour, but distance traversed is actually ~1.41 times higher (while distance traversed is the same on hex grid), and even if you don't care about mapping to real terrain, there are other concrete benefits like covering a greater number of adjacent squares. Unless there are arcane rules like every other turn having doubled movement cost, it's not just that you can move diagonally on square grid but it's outright better.
And hex grid has a number of other benefits that have already been mentioned in other posts.
Doesn't work.
What about in a non-euclidean space?
Hello, yes, I am the hexagons.
Benzene is a known carcinogen you fucking bio retard.
t. an actual chemist
Apparently it works on hyperbolic planes but that's it (source: a quick search on Google, I don't actually know about such things myself).
Known carcinogens are in consumer products, you fucking idealist.
t. an actual pessimist
When you put hexagons onto something,the players will know it's futuristic and advanced.
When you see it
I took a class on game mechanic designs and hexagon provides a more fair movement system than squares.
No, because it uses different tiles. Hexagon is so strong because it allows many tiles, with many movement options between neighbors (six at a time compared to four of squares) while all being the exact same shape.
The strongest you baka.
QUICK POST HEX BASED GAMES
Christ nuCiv looks fucking atrocious
ahhhhhhhhhh
>Game
>Game II
>Game III
>Game IIII
This. I took one look at the models for the civ leaders and knew I would not be playing it.
>IIII
Which game did this recently? I know something did.
hi, /hg/
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Fuuck, there was a simple 'RTS' Hex-based game, where it was risk lite
A number of colours, you get reinforcements depending on the amount of sectors you have in control. Attack was literally dice rolls depending on the number of units involved in combat
dat quest
>343i happened
>we let 343i happen
Dice Wars, right?
>A number of colours, you get reinforcements depending on the amount of sectors you have in control. Attack was literally dice rolls depending on the number of units involved in combat
The combat in several Paradox games basically works like this, not hex based though
Bingo. Thanks user, been looking for it for a few months now
get educated on the LD50.
>yfw the hexagons are still rectangular tiles
it had to be done
but y
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this
>it's OK that our potato chips are lethal to a bit under half the population when a single serving is eaten!
>and the 100% cancer rate when you eat two servings is fine, nobody ever eats more than three potato chips a month!
God I wish the FDA hadn't been castrated by the food industry.
Is that The Pale?
quality
Case in point
holy autism
IIII is commonly used on clocks and pocket watches instead of IV, just thought you'd like to know