Asset Store – Hexasphere Grid System

Features

• – Wireframe, Shaded and combined styles (shaded + wireframe).
• – Bevel effect.
• – Per tile color and texture.
• – Extrusion with customizable height and gradient colors.
• – Interactive: highlight tiles with cursor, drag/rotate and zoom sphere, fly to a given tile.
• – Fast and easy to use path-finding functions to get the optimal path between any two tiles.
• – Group cells to define different type of surfaces for path-finding purposes.
• – Smart Edges options hides edges on adjacent tiles with same material.
• – HeightMap texture support with option to use a separated water mask. Earth and water mask textures provided.
• – Option to load a texture and map colors to tiles around sphere in one function call
• – Inverted mode option. Renders the hexasphere inwards, placing camera at the center!
• – VR compatible (multi-pass). Support for Google VR and Samsung Gear VR controllers.
• – Easy to use API (C#) to change individual tile properties, get neighbours, shortest paths, …
• – Full source code included (C#).
• – Demo scene included.
• Requirements:
• – Built-in and URP (Universal Rendering Pipeline) support.
• – Works with SM 2.0 with basic features on all platforms.
• – Texture arrays requires SM 3.5+
• – Extrusion uses geometry shaders (SM 4.0+) compatible with OpenGL & DirectX (not supported on Metal).

Hexasphere Grid System produces perfectly regular geodesic grids which by definition contains 12 pentagons. They are fully functional, can be colored/textured/extruded and be used in path-finding methods as the rest of hexagons. In addition, the grid can be shifted so pentagons don’t appear over undesired positions.