Pixelart Hexagonal Tilesets

A bunch of art for hexagon based and turn based projects I did, such as Hexes & Hexes and The Difficulties of Time Travel.

Why are the png's formatted like this?

Since hexagons have more neighbors than squares, the number of required variations for different neighbor constellations also grows drastically. I used tilesize of 32 * 16 in my tilemaps, but wanted to add some perspective with e.g. standing grass, so the tiles have a space of 32 * 32 allocated for them. I then sorted them into groups based on the number of neighbors and spaced the groups out 16 pixels.

There are also some characters, which contain irregulary shaped tiles, because i solved walking animations between tiles with animation frames. Refer to templates/SpaciousEntityTemplate.png for the different shapes needed to set for your Atlas Texture.

How can I use the tiles?

First of, feel free to do whatever you want with the assets. If you want to you can credit me, or this page, but you don't have to. If you want to, you can also reach out to me, if you published your project, and I will link it here.

Now to the technical usage:

I used the tiles with Godot 4.4. There I created a Tilemap Layer with a 32 * 16 Hexagon Stacked Vertical Offset Tileset. I then added Matching Sides Terrain for each asset. I adjusted the vertical offset to my liking, and painted in the terrain connections. I used this Tileset on three Tilemaps per Layer, one Background, one Midground and one Foreground. I also created an extra Tileset for the entities, with a custom animation player to switch through the frames.

For an easier time setting the terrain up, I can recommed first adding /templates/GenericTemplateContrast.png, renaming it to your target file, then painting in the terrain, and then replacing the file. In the template red means no neighbor there, and grey means there is a neighbor there. It some cases you will need to change the offset after adding the terrain. Some tiles also contain a few variations for center tiles. Those can be found at the bottom. You can also find usage examples in the form of my games' GitHub Repositories.

Games, that use this art:

My own games:

• Hexes & Hexes
• The Difficulties of Time Travel