Need Advice on terraining a hex board

[Dougletron]

So i am considering making a turn based game that uses a hex board. Any idea how i should go about terraining this? This is a hex board:

 

[raid1000]

do it like this

 

[Dougletron]

Hmmmm. Thats the best i've come up with as well. It will suffice for awhile--regardless the way im going to code it will allow it to be easily changed if there is ever an idea to make it more to scale. Probably could make it better with doodads but that would be annoying. If there was an outline of a hexagon model existent, that would be hella awesome.

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[Lexandritte]

Hexes are nice strategic system, but to make them in War3 would require quite some of code knowledge... There's about a dozen of different hexagonical plates in UTM, you can just ask a modeller nicely or change the texture\model yourself to suit your needs.

 

[Dougletron]

It actually is rather easy, just put an invisible unit in the center of each hex, and for unit movement have a ability with a max distance cast point, have it get the closest invisible-hex-unit to targeted point and have them move to the center of the hex (where the invisible unit would be ). With a few error and invalid movement conditions, it should work fine.

What is UTM?

 

[TheHunterKiller]

What is UTM?

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/terrain-board-267/ultimate-terraining-map-3-0-a-45316/

 

[Insincerity]

Use the hexagonal platforms from the UTM, and pinpoint the coordinates of the center of each platform when you make the board, and use those as destinations when moving units.

 

[Dougletron]

Could you name a few models that are hexagons in the UTM, there is an assload of custom stuff and im having trouble finding them.

 

[Celaquil]

Their under Props or Destructible (most probably Props) and is named either Platou or Platform, I think.

 

[Insincerity]

The hexagonal ones are called "Pedestal".