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[Java] Road Traffic Management Project

Started by tiagomagalhaes Apr 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM 2 replies 750+ views

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Apr 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM

hello... first of all i want to say that website is a good one for those that want to develop games and maybe in the future i would visit this page for develop a game... In my University, I'm starting to learn java, and in my first project i have to create a road traffic management without a graphic Interface... and to start, i think that is important to start with the terrain. But the terrain must be implemented with hexagonal tiles... and i don't know how to implement it because the terrain will have cities and roads, and i dont know how to store that information... i thought in: - bi-dimensional arrays - Hash Maps can anyone help me please??? i would be very appreciated I have to get this done before the 3rd of May thanks...

Stani R

Apr 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM

As a first guess, I'd start with a class representing a terrain cell. The class would have six members of its own type (one referencing every adjacent cell, with null meaning no cell is adjacent in that direction), plus any other info you care to put in it.

public class Cell {    private Cell northwest, north, northeast, southeast, southwest, south;}

tiagomagalhaes

Apr 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM

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Original post by lightbringer
As a first guess, I'd start with a class representing a terrain cell. The class would have six members of its own type (one referencing every adjacent cell, with null meaning no cell is adjacent in that direction), plus any other info you care to put in it.

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and this would have 6 fields right?

Stani R

Apr 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM

Well, hexagons had six sides last time I checked, so yeah. My approach is probably more than a bit naive and not really suitable for drawing - you could do this with a 2d array somehow, like you mentioned, by shifting every other row when drawing it - but you said that you are not gonna draw anything to screen anyway, so treating each tile as a kind of "room" seemed most intuitive to me.

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