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I am creating objects for a game which consists of hexagonal tiles. I successfully created looping animation for ocean, but failed to make it loop spatially, due to my tile being hexagon, and not a rectangle. As a result, my water objects don't fit together nicely:
Is this "hexagonal looping" possible in blender?
So here is a hexagon grid converted to a staggered rectangular grid with indication of the direction how the rectangles need to "line up":
The rectangles are seamless from top to bottom exactly how you expect. But the left-right 'seamlessness' needs to be rotated +30°(or -30°) because of the staggering.
When you have the rectangle seamless, you create the hexagon from it by cutting and re-arranging the corners like this:
Now you know how to seamlessly tile hexagons. With a bit of skill you don't need to go through the rectangle phase at all, just create tiling with one tiling axis rotated 30°. That's the trick.
