Hello everyone,
I’m actually working on a game project, where I decided to put a very large collision box on the player character. The idea is to detect any object that get into it, and I want to calculate a “score” representing how much space it’s occupying in that collision box.
In order to achieve this, I thought I would create an entire 8x8x8 Octree of small box colliders. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll say that each of them returns 0 if there is nothing inside and 1 if there is an object inside.
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In this example above, the red circle would get a score of 30 points, while the blue circle would get a score of 1 point.
While this approach may work in a way, I got a bad feeling about the performance, as this uses up to 512 collision boxes at once.
Does such a thing have negative impact on performance ? If that’s the case, is there a better way of doing what i’m trying to do, even without using Octrees ?
Thank you in advance