List of object in bounding box

Simple but powerful feature which I was used to when using another engine.

It would be nice to do: -

gameobjectList = gameObject.find( bounding volume, object type );


This would be a help when a scene has lots of objects. The only current work around at present is to store the object list in a KD or quad tree, or iterate everything and take a big performance hit.

 

Hi, I am trying to find a way to simply list which GameObjects intersect or are contained within given .bounds, but am not able to. Is this what you are referring to? Should I stop looking?

 

This is not exactly what I'm asking for, you could do something like this:-

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. foreach gameobject in scene
3.  if gameobject.bounds.intersects( myObject.bounds) then
4.      do whatever...
5.  endif
6.  

however the loop on gameobject is inefficient if you have a big scene and many objects. Check out: -

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Bounds.Intersects.html


I presume Unity must store it's scene in some sort of quad tree/kd tree/oct tree and it would be nice to have access to it's efficiency and get lists of objects in a bounding box.

 

Thanks, but happily I've found a totally different approach so that I don't have to do any tests for my problem