Are hex tiles hard to draw? Any tutes?

[candiru]

Hello, new member here. I'm interested in learning more about hexagonal tiles, will any of you kind people share youir knowledge with me or point me to a resource where these are discussed?

p.s. Any links to to good hex games screenshots would be helpful too.

[factorr]

If you're actually interested in developing a game with hexagonal tiles http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1800.asp would probably be a good place to start. 

As far as actually drawing the tiles http://sc.tri-bit.com/Hex_Grids has the only good information I could find.

[ndchristie]

they are nto hard at all to draw, in fact far easier to eliminate the grid.  i <3 hex tiles and was thinking about a game based on them recently (actually 2, one an rpg/"pokemontype" game and the other an army strategy game)

just make sure that you get everything sorted out far in advance

also i would suggest using the "perfect" lines (1/2 slope), since an actual 30 degree angle will end up broken and ugly unless you work quite large

[fil_razorback]

This is more about coding thant designing the tiles but still :
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html#hex

[.TakaM]

anyone know of a good example to show? all I can think of is 'qbert' I think...

[Mr.Modem]

Isn't Q*bert isometric? I think The Settlers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers) is made up of hexagon tiles.

[.TakaM]

[ptoing]

Q*Bert IS isometric. Just going down a lot, so it's lots of isocubes and looks hexagonal.

And Settlers has strange shifted squares as tiles i think like this kinda   \    \

History Line has hextiles, as has Battle Isle.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/historyline-1914-1918/screenshots

[Stwelin]

Look up the game Cyberstorm for the pc, old RTS classic from Sierra.

[robalan]

Battle for Wesnoth has hex tiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Wesnoth
Not sure most of the tiles are the best examples of pixel art, but it might give you some ideas.