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How to measure the distance between two objects?
I found this question has been asked a lot of times...Most of the answers were to use the Vector3.Distance.But Vector3.Distance measures the distance between the center of gravity between two objects.
I was wondering if there is a way to measure the perpendicular distance between two objects?
Are you trying to get the distance from outside the objects? If they have a collider you can do.
public float GetOuterDistance(GameObject first, GameObject second)
{
Vector3 pointA = first.GetComponent<Collider>.ClosestPoint(second.transform.position);
Vector3 pointB = second.GetComponent<Collider>.ClosestPoint(first.transform.position);
return Vector3.Distance(pointA, pointB);
}
Also if you mean you only want distance from a single axis you can do this
public float GetXAxisDistance(Vector3 origin, Vector3 target)
{
origin.y = 0;
origin.z = 0;
target.y = 0;
target.z = 0;
return Vector3.Distance(origin, target);
}
or simply
public float GetXAxisDistance(Vector3 origin, Vector3 target)
{
return $$anonymous$$athf.Abs(origin.x - target.x)
}
