Kind of a nostalgia thing to see this, as one of my earliest answers on gamedev stack was about creating a hex map (See https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questi

Kind of a nostalgia thing to see this, as one of my earliest answers on gamedev stack was about creating a hex map (See https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/6382/how-to-create-a-hexagon-world-map-in-php-from-a-database-for-a-browser-based-str https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/6382/how-to-crea...) I cheated and used hex-shaped png files but looking back using CSS to just auto-shape the PNG would be good. That said, if you ARE using textures in the hexes and you'd like to actually tile them, you'll have to explicitly design an image that will tile. So you might as well just create hex shaped images like this and forget getting too fancy.