Hexagonal Image Frame?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Jul 14 23:41:16 EDT 2009


Rick Harrison wrote:
> I'm trying to create a game, and I
> wanted to use hexagonal image
> frames put tightly together to make
> a kind of game board where the
> images can change.  Is this possible
> to do with Revolution?

You could use a hexagonal graphic, setting the graphic's 
backgroundPattern property to the ID of an image you want shown within it.

Not only will that give you what you're looking for but for game tiles 
it's a more efficient use of memory, since there's only one actual image 
object which is copied as the backgroundPattern of any graphic objects 
that use it.  For a few tiles this may not matter much, but if your game 
space has dozens or hundreds of tiles this can be quite a savings.

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  Richard Gaskin
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