How to determine if a point is in Open Air or in water?

How would I determine if a given Vector3 is in the open, i.e. not in any object or collider?

Also is there anyway to determine if a given Vector3 is in water?

Thanks for any help and /or consideration,

Noob

 

For water, easy, simply check the Y component and see if it's lower than your water level height.

I'm not sure about checking whether a 3D point (Vector3) is within a collider, but you definitely cannot check if it's within any arbitrary object.

Why do you need to check Vector3 against colliders, specifically? Perhaps you're going the wrong way about the problem.

 

I want to spawn an object.

I want to make sure I avoid water and that I dont spawn it within another object.

 

I think you can use the Physics.CheckSphere method to see if it is in a collider or if a collider is in it.
This only returns a true or false.
If you want to check for certain colliders, you can use Physics.OverlapSphere. This will give you all the colliders that are inside or outside the overlapshere and you can then check their name, tag, etc...

 

I will try that.

Thanks!