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Overview :
The Hexasphere Grid System is a high-performance spherical grid system. It uses texture maps and geometric shaders for optimal generation and runtime performance, allowing you to create hundreds of thousands of tiles.
Highlights:
- Wireframe, Shaded and combined styles (shaded and wireframe)
- Bevel effect.
- Per tile color and texture.
- Extrusion with customizable height and gradient colors
- Interactive: highlight tiles with the cursor, drag, rotate, and zoom the sphere, and fly to a given tile.
- Fast and easy-to-use pathfinding functions to find the optimal path between two tiles
- Group cells to define different types of surfaces for path-finding purposes.
- Smart Edges options hide edges on adjacent tiles with the same material.
- HeightMap textures with the ability to use a separate water mask Land and water mask textures are available.
- Option to load textures and colormaps onto the boxes around the sphere in one function call
- Inverted mode option Renders the hexasphere inward, placing the camera at the center!
- VR-ccompatible (multi-pass). Support for Google VR and Samsung Gear VR controllers.
- Easy-to-use API (C#) to change individual tile properties, get neighbors, shortest paths,…
- Full source code is included (C#).
- Demo scene included.
Requirements:
- Built-in and URP (Universal Rendering Pipeline) support
- Works with SM 2.0 with basic functionality on all platforms.
- Texture arrays require SM 3.5+
- Extrusion uses geometry shaders (SM 4.0+) compatible with OpenGL and DirectX (not supported on Metal).