Function problem (hexagonal zone grid)

I'm trying to make a system that spreads a player's control over the terrain. The terrain is pre-made of hexagons.

Each hexagon has a cost (like the one used in pathing). so when the player places a base in an hexagon with no owner, control spreads from the base out.

The base has "power" to determine how far can it's control reach in every direction.

example image 1

example image 2

CAPX V.1

I tried to use a function to make each owned hexagon spread to every non-owned hexagon around it using the base "power". However I don't know how the make construct differentiate between instances in functions when every object is actually the same.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I played around A LOT with it, and at least I got it to spread now... however it DOES NOT behave like i want it to =( CAPX v.2

Hi,

I like the event setup in your first version. So I edited that slightly to get it working.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5426011/fixed/sargas_hexzones.capx

All I added was parameters for the functions. Functions don't keep track of what was picked when it's called, it only knows what was passed to it.

R0J0hound woah! thanks :D!!! i'm not really up to speed with functions, but what you did really helped me out!! :DDD

However, the spread is not going all 5 in every direction =(, any idea why it might be?

V.2 (I tweeked the debug text, and some other things)

R0J0hound it seems to be "prioritizing" certain hexagons over other that never get to spread D:

Sargas

In event 15 it has the condition "hex owner=0". This is where the seeming priority comes from. You can disable that condition and it will spread correctly, but base2 will overwrite areas base has and vise-versa. One idea for a remedy for that would be to add a Boolean variable to hex and call it say "owned" and replace that condition in event 15 with a "[negated] hex is owned". So with that it will spread correctly but we also need to set "owned" to true eventually so we do that by adding a sub-event to event 4:

system: Pick all hex

hex: owner != 0

---> hex: set owned to true

R0J0hound hey, that works perfectly ^^

fun fact, the original design of this had a "hasOwner" boolean on Hex -_-.

I find it super weird, in my mind the logic in "!owned" and "owner=0" is the same D:. which is why I ended up not using the boolean in the first place... are booleans more easily read?

btw, at this point I should put you in the credits for my game xD you've helped me several times already with my game ^^