Thoughts on hex-grid movement...

[wolfwings]

...since I'm working on retrofitting a vector-based movement system to an old FASA game (Interceptor) I've realized a few traits I didn't realize before until I tested them via brute-force to verify things to myself.

When you sum things up in a vector-movement system as applied to a hex grid, there's two basic mergers that let you quickly simplify things down to a single pair of vectors that will always be on neighboring sides of the movement hex. I.E. A single fixed line on a 360-degree circle, common sense but neat on how things simplify down.

First, a hex grid to work with:

    __
 __/#W\__
/#A\__/#E\
\__/  \__/
/#Z\__/#D\
\__/#X\__/
   \__/

Yes, I'm being a bit lazy on the labelling, deal. Long story short:

• 1 #A + 1 #E = 1 #W.
• 1 #W + 1 #X = 0.

Yes, it's minor, but I felt like sharing. Oh, and interceptor critical-hit sheets if you want good-quality scans, and the live WIP for the by-hand re-building I'm making of the sheets into pure PostScript to be made into PDF's eventually.

Comments

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Wow. Renagade Legion. It's been ages since I played that game. Ga, did I hate that game. :D Not that it wasn't good, but I rather would have been playing Battletech.

Yeah... I'm not trying to make 'perfect copies' of the sheets.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going to break things into their component areas, so things like the Superstructure, Tachyon Drive System, Weapons, etc, will be seperate areas and will say 'go here' instead of lines overlapping all over the damn place.

That, and I'm going to make a seperate version to support the vector-movement system. Long-term all this is going to be vaguely hidden, as I'm implementing the damage and critical-hit system for an online text-based space-battle game where all the complexity can be reduced to much simpler views. The old wiring-diagram really does generate organic-feeling ship decay though, I must admit!

Re: Yeah... I'm not trying to make 'perfect copies' of the sheets.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I *heart* flow charts. :D

Re: Yeah... I'm not trying to make 'perfect copies' of the sheets.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Well, lemme know how I do once I start rebuilding the chart then, yes? =^.^= Once the 'copy of the original' trace is done, I'll move that to the background, and start building one section at a time for the 'new and rethought' chart, keeping completed sections to one side.