I'm trying to have objects in a game be selectable only from a top down orthographic camera view. I think having physics colliders might be overkill for that - especially because this only needs to be in 2D and not 3D. Is there another method that might be better, such as something like a renderer "raycasts", but perhaps even more performant as it is just from the orthographic 2D top down view
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If you build your "top down" view on the XY plane, you can use 2D colliders and Physics2D.OverlapPoint.
This is about as efficient as you will get. A 2D collider is using exactly the same math you'd need to write in your C# code to test for a hit anyway. And if you're using Kinematic bodies on a physics layer that doesn't interact with anything, they won't burn any cycles on unneeded collision detection and resolution.
answered Dec 17, 2020 at 22:39
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\$\begingroup\$ is there a way to automatically create 2D colliders from the top down for 3D meshes? \$\endgroup\$– inaCommented Dec 18, 2020 at 1:16
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\$\begingroup\$ You could write a script to do it reasonably easily. Project all the triangles and make a polygon collider out of their perimeter. \$\endgroup\$– DMGregory ♦Commented Dec 18, 2020 at 1:19
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1\$\begingroup\$ Or you could use
GetComponent<Renderer>().boundswhich gets you the bounding box of the object as its used for culling calculations and create a BoxCollider2D out of it. \$\endgroup\$– PhilippCommented Dec 18, 2020 at 9:12
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you can use quadtree algorithm to detect which object under the mouse position
you can use octree algorithm in 3d space
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1\$\begingroup\$ Why would you do that when Unity already provides that for you? \$\endgroup\$– PhilippCommented Dec 18, 2020 at 9:10
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\$\begingroup\$ some people like inventing the sledgehammer even though it is now commodity that's basically free \$\endgroup\$– inaCommented Dec 18, 2020 at 23:51
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\$\begingroup\$ Some times you dont need whole physics features with heavy calculations \$\endgroup\$– Kam RadCommented Dec 19, 2020 at 22:14
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\$\begingroup\$ Im using ECS and i had to use this algorithm for nearby object detection \$\endgroup\$– Kam RadCommented Dec 19, 2020 at 22:15