ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Would be cool to make a game in hex grids instead of squares. Is this possible...?

I've always wondered, what would a hex grid offer that a square grid cannot?

All surrounding tiles have the same distance from the center tile.

Easier control system for laptops too (QWEASD for movement). And it looks cool.

It would require changes to the C core, particularly the C map objects and fov calculations. In short, possible but difficult. It would be very interesting, though.

Considering that all the talents are based off of squares, this would be more than just a re-code of the movement/tiles.

I think very few talents actually assume a square, most use the engine code to do a cone/circle/line projection. Those projections would have to be made hex-aware, but the talents should work regardless. I could be wrong, though.

EDIT: Also I don't think the suggestion is that ToME4 go to hex. Note that this is in the T-Engine 4 forum, not the ToME4 one.

Yeah, even the title of the thread says "for modules" :P Talent system is irrelevant. A UI and co-ordinate system is all that's needed. The module coder can do the rest.

A hex option would be great. I'm sure it's doable, but I'm not going to try to estimate the amount of work it would entail.

The core FoV code would be straightforward to do efficiently with recursive shadowcasting (which would have asymmetric LoS like the current system in tome, but would be less severe, I believe, due to being hexagonal). A very permissive and symmetric fov/los system would also be possible. If you would like this for a 7DRL, Grey, let me know and I should be able to whip it up before the next 7DRL challenge.

If it's available I'll certainly use it. I can't think of any game that isn't improved by being changed to hexes.

yufra wrote:I think very few talents actually assume a square, most use the engine code to do a cone/circle/line projection. Those projections would have to be made hex-aware, but the talents should work regardless. I could be wrong, though.

EDIT: Also I don't think the suggestion is that ToME4 go to hex. Note that this is in the T-Engine 4 forum, not the ToME4 one.

I meant more about about balance, but the fact that it doesn't depend on squares programmatically is encouraging.

Again, balance is not an issue, since we're talking about this as an option for original modules, not for ToME 4 itself.

tiger_eye, I think I need to second DarkGod's quote from your sig :-D

:O Now we need a square-to-hex map converter so I can play all of ToME in hexes.