hex grid

hex grid

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Building hex grid by staggering stardard grid

Characteristics:
same distance between each cell’s center and neighbor center
6 immediate neighbor with shared edge

Issues:
Extra run time required to convert global point to hex coordinate
horizontal/vertical orthographic trace lines have different length i.e. 0,2 to 0,0 comparing to 0,0 to 2,0

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Convert global point to hex coordinate
1. convert point to nearest rectangular cell
2. check for point in hex, apply different x,y for the 4 corners and even/odd rows

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