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Resolutions describes the layers of hexagons the game’s map is built on, and the data structures it entails

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• Layers of Hexagons
  • Tile/hex
  • chunk
    • a symmetrical area of tiles/hexes
    • contains the units, structures, etc. that are inside of the chunk in terms of their tile
  • map
    • the entire map, in the shape of a hexagon of course, made up of chunks

Code examples

Trying to get a unit at a specified coordinate

game_state.map.unit_at(hex);

• uses resolutions (lower res, higher res) to find the unit from inside the chunk
• resolutions describes the layers of encapsulation
  • in this case it’s map which encapsulates chunks which encapsulates tiles/hexes
• lower res goes up. So from tile/hex → chunk
• higher res goes down. So from chunk → tile/hex (center of chunk)

Drawing

https://excalidraw.com/#json=BGxrwa8HrsbWkpTMCvnCB,Nje2w0J4Uje3mpVUYjGnmA