Before discovering this video I attempted to make a hex map using a grid paper after an hour I realized the hexes weren’t connected honey comb style being frustrated I ripped it apart 😅 I will be using this technique and making another temp! Ty for this!
This has been a life saver. Been meaning to run a campaign for my baby sister and sister and now this just makes my whole life easier (and my campaign much more homebrew and cheaper!) Thank you so much!
Thank you, I was trying to figure out how to do this. I was doing one thing high cells, so they were flipped on the xy axis. These being double high on the x axis makes them align better. Now I can write these in my dot grid journals. Thank you again.
I’m so glad - just remember, as dialNforNinja said, they aren’t perfect hexies. But for my uses (and yeah, quilting is one) they work well! Hope you have a blast!
Oh my gosh your voice is so cool! You sound just like Jennifer Tilly. (Celia Mae from monsters ink) Love listening to you. And awesome tutorial! Very clear and straight to the point. Quality stuff.
Nice technique! I'll make some for my games soon. Not considering the extra cost, would laminating it with plastic instead of applying contact paper have the same easy to erase result?
It's not even sized hexes, though Edit: For the benefit of later viewers so you don't need to read all the replies, the second set of lines need to be every 5/16" rather than 1/4" to get even hexes, within the limits of accuracy a hand-drawn grid is likely to have in the first place.
@@LittleLira Okay, so, checking again, no, you do not end up with even sized hexes - they are 1" along the face to face width one way, and also 1" along the point to point axis perpendiculat to that. I specifically needed actual regular hexagons, so I broke down and bought some extra tools (well, a drafting compass and triangles, which was under $20, but I had wanted to just use what was on hand.)
@@LittleLira And finally, since it's usually pointless to present a problem without at least a proposed solution, I constructed some proper hexes with the compass and straightedge and measured. Over the space of a few feet and with the level of accuracy that any hand-drawn project is apt to cover, making the grid lines that will go point-to-point every 5/16 instead of 1/4 will yield hexes with all vertices at the same angle to within what the unaided eye can judge. Hopefully I didn't harsh your mellow too badly with my pedantry, and happy crafting!
Lol… no mellow harshed AT ALL! Thank you for the breakdown and I see what you’re saying. (I am not the “bestest ever” at math so this was very helpful. Thank you again, and likewise, happy crafting!
Thank you, this was such a good tutorial. Really good quality. Yet, I do feel it will be faster to request a print of the one I've made on the computer, wait a week for delivery and then get it. Because this was a very long process.
