In 2017, this asset was deprecated by Unity, due to me not being able to maintain it at the time because of intense work at the time.
I’m finally getting back to making version 4, and it is better in every way. A built in editor, the terrain texture is shader-driven now instead of drawn on, making it look better and run faster, pathfinding and a basic unit template will also be included.
I am at work right now so I can’t check the asset Store, how much is it?
$100.
Took me two months to create, I figure it’ll save people at least that much time if they wanted to do it on their own.
If anyone who has ordered it has any problems, contact me here or at tasarran@electricrune.com; I’ll be happy to help.
I guess the fact that nobody has had any problems yet means that I documented enough… 
Several sales, no complaints or issues brought to my attention, I assume everyone is happy so far!
If you’re looking to do any kind of hex-based game, with varying elevations or not, HexTech is the package for you!
Just a bump to bring this to the attention of any potential new wargame designers.
If any of my customers have any ideas about things that need to be added, please let me know.
If it’s something I think is a good idea, it might become a standard feature…
I’d be interested to know how my customers are doing; I’ve had several sales over the last few months, and I’d be interested to hear any successes or even complaints.
I’m nearing completion on a game I made using the HexTech system.
Under Steel Skies; check the WIP thread here:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/118456-Under-Steel-Skies-futuristic-hex-based-wargame-feedback
hi,
I’m toying with an idea I’m still in the very early stages (which means I might not even make the game)
but, I’m quite interested in your framework.
I have a few questions.
can you post a video of the workflow of how to make a map ?
it’s quite weird that nobody commented here after buying the plugin !! I hope it really is that good
I also thought it was weird that nobody has commented, either up or down; I haven’t had a lot of sales, but it’s in the double digits…
A couple of guys have sent me emails with some questions about how to customize/extend the code, but nobody has had any kudos or curses…
The terrain part of the tiles are a mesh that I made in Maya.
It could be any sort of mesh you want to use, but you’ll have to modify the script that deforms the vertices to work with the specific vertices of your mesh.
They have features (trees, rocks, grass) that are a combination of tree creator assets and meshes, again, you can sub your own stuff in as you wish.
Each terrain type has one hex prefab, and some randomization happens when the map first loads that makes each tile unique.
If you want to have cliff sides possible along the edges, the tile meshes are a hexagonal cylinder, if you want smooth joins all around, it can just be a flat hexagon mesh.
I don’t know if it will run on iOS, but if you kept your tiles, and perhaps more importantly, the extra features, low in poly count; ans you kept the maps from being really large, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
I don’t know anything about any existing 2D frameworks, so I can’t speak to that question…
I haven’t made an editor for HexTech yet, the way it gets the map data is from an image file (PSD).
The image is a staggered grid of squares, the color represents height, a colored area is read for the type of terrain, and certain pixels are read along the edge for roads and rivers. It sounds difficult, but when you see the map image, it will make sense.
Pathfinding isn’t in the package as it exists, but all the needed info is there. The script that sets up the map assigns values on each hex, defining which hexes are connected, and assigns move values at that point.
HexTech will be updating to 2.0 before the end of August!
Adding large-scale terrain, with the option to fractalize the terrain.
See the WIP thread for the game I am currently developing, Glyph, for some preview screenshots.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/143632-Glyph-Fantasy-4X-TBS
HexTech 1.0 uses individual tiles, that get distorted and placed around the map.
It uses sphere colliders on each hex to determine mousing over and clicking upon hexes.
The new map in 2.0 is made up of large meshes, and uses a raycast to determine the target hex.
This increases efficiency by a large margin, and allows much bigger map.
Soon after this, I will be releasing my GeoGlobe project, allowing the creation of hex-tiled spheres with the same kinds of features.
See this thread for some screenshots and webplayers.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/137007-Geodesic-globe-WIP
HexTech 2.0 is ready for beta!
Please try out this link: http://www.electricrune.com/Glyph/WebPlayer.html
The texture map painting routine is still on the slow side; I have a plan to speed this up, but right now, depending on your computer GPU, it takes 15-30 seconds per map.
There is a progress message, so you will see progress, not just a blank screen.
This is a 128x128 map, but the upper limit is only defined by the amount of free RAM you have. Maps can be any size, but height and width must be multiples of 32. (considering changing to 16x16 for increased resolution)
Feedback greatly appreciated!
I’d love to check this out, but the webplayer crashes chrome every time I run it ;(
Hrm. OK, so I guess it doesn’t work on Chrome.
The only other bug report I’ve had is that the textures go black if you are running a Flash player in another tab, and you switch while the textures are generating.
No idea why that one happens, but I suspect its something about Flash and Unity accessing the texture memory at the same time.
In any event, I can’t do anything about Unity not playing nice with Flash and Chrome, can I?
I have no idea, but I would love to buy this, but not working in chrome (arguably the browsers with the largest market share) is a deal breaker for me.
I don’t have a clue why it wouldn’t work; I’m only making meshes and texture maps.
It’s not like I’m doing 4D-physics or quantum mechanics…
I’m not dis-interested in trying to make it work on Chrome, but I’m at a complete loss to figure out where to attack it.
I am testing the same webplayer on Chrome without problems, at least not more than the ones I already pointed out in the WIP thread. This probably has little to do with the webplayer itself, it is most likely a configuration issue brought on by Chrome to the Unity player.
Yeah, I just checked my website statistics, and 46% of the hits are from Chrome, and nobody is complaining about it crashing…
I don’t mean to blame the victim, but there might be a problem on your end, fholm.
Just to add to the feedback, I wanted to check it out too, but my Chrome crashed too, both times I tried (at “generating textures 1of 16”). Maybe you should try asking the Unity guys?
First thing that comes to my mind about what might be the cause… maybe you’re having an intense operation running without breaks, and it’s taking some seconds to execute, and as such Chrome deems the plugin non-responsive?
