HEX MAPPING AGAIN... help needed.

[Paracelsus]

I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG THREAD!!
I HAVE MOVED THE MESSAGE TO BOARD GAME MAPPING!!!


Right!

A new question which may have been answered before.

While working on a map of Sourthern Scandinavia, as part of a board game on the political situation in Denmark, during the period 900 AD to 1050 AD, I have come up with a problem which I'm sure, I'm not alone with; hex mapping.
This is of course only meant as a prototype of the final board, if it is ever to be published.
I have this large png-file map and I have to hex it into .5" hexes which has to be numbered. I plan to do this in either Adobe Illustrator or in Adobe Photoshop (both CS 3 versions).
After having layered the map and the hexes in two different layers, I plan to add trees, rivers, elevation aso. using coloration and different brushes i PS.
The hex grid (and the map) has to look like this (which is a picture of the GMT game "Under The Lily Banners").

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iMuUe3z-tr...0/IMAG0692.jpg

How du I make this grid and how du I number each hex?

TIA.

[Chick]

I answered your question in the first thread.

[johnvanvliet]

in the 2010 thread Chick posted in your other post
Gimp has changed A LOT in the last 6 years

in Gimp 2.8 the hex plugin is
Filters / Render / Patterns /Hex grid

or
if you have the GREAT tool "gmic" installed and the gimp plugin for it
Filters / G'Mic
click on "arrays and tiles " and under that listing is
Hex , Triangle , and Cartesian( regular)

as for numbering
that would be a bit more complex

but the old inkscape link in that post should work