The Hexton Hills Tile Generator is in development as a group client project for my final year of university. I specifically have been working on procedural tools for creating and manipulating tiles. It is being made in Unreal with C++.

The client is Graven Guild, and they have requested us to develop a program that allows a user to create a hexagonal tile, decorate it in a variety of ways, and export either the tile data, or the tile mesh for 3D printing.

• Developing a complete product to a clients specifications.
• Collaborating within a group with artists, a designer, other programmers and producers.
• Understanding the needs of the client, and effectively communicating with them.

• I have been working on a new terrain tool that will take image data from height map, and superimpose it onto the tile mesh to create naturalistic terrain.
• Currently, my work allows for a the user to group a number of .png images into a directory, which allows the stamp tool to randomly pick one and save it as a Unreal data type.
• Going forward, I need to continue work on the actual superimposing of image data onto the mesh. I am stuck on the last step, that being this step. Pictured below are images taken of the tile with superimposed heightmaps during runtime.

• The current terrain tools are:
  Brush tool: Raises or lowers a group of vertices concurrently.
  Vertex tool: Raises and lowers a single vertex.
  Noise tool: Randomly raises and lowers a group of vertices concurrently.
  Flatten tool: Sets the height of a group of vertices to be equal (either the height of the highest or lowest vertex, or the mean of all selected vertices).
  
• Developing this prototype further, optimising the tools would help greatly, as performance can suffer when working with a larger mesh.
• The video below demonstrates both the terrain tools during runtime.

• In its current state, this tool can procedurally generate a hexagonal mesh of any size and "complexity". It can also take a given padding value, and create of list of mesh vertices that are on the edge of the hexagon.
• Developing this prototype further, I would like to optimise the code to make generation more efficient. I would also like to create a function that allows the user to change complexity during runtime.
• The video below demonstrates the mesh being generated at different complexities, and how edge padding can be useful in tile Creation.

• In its current state, you can use the spline tool to create, cut off, and add onto splines. The splines points themselves can update this position based on the mesh.
• You can also use the spline selection tool to click and drag the major spline points to new positions.
• Developing this further, I want to be able to delete and merge spline points, and I want to use Unreal Engines PCG tools to stretch a path mesh over the spline, and have that adapt during runtime.
• This video demonstrates the path current capabilities.

• In its current state, placed objects can move with the terrain below them, rotate to always be flush with the floor, and select buildings can create a plateau beneath them.
• Developing this further, I want to find a way to procedurally determine the size of the area flattened when an object is placed based on the placed objects size.
• The video below demonstates object adjust to the terrain live, and objects creating flat areas beneath them when placed.

• In its current state, the function can create a .csv file, save it to a hardcoded location, and write into it the mesh's hex complexity, and the Z position of all vertices that aren't still at 0.
• Developing this prototype further, I will have to continuously update the data written to the save files over time. This is because as more tools for the project are created, there will be more "attributes" of the tile that would need saving. I will also need to develop a way of reading the save files, and recreating tiles based on a save file.
• The video below demonstates saving a tile, and what a save file looks like.