koobas.hobune.stream
Indexing lists based on positions
Hello, im having a problem where i need to be able to store objects in an array based on their position, that way i can retrieve them from the array, if i know the position of the object.
I decided to just use a List>> type structure but then realized that you cant use a negative value as an index, therefore i cant store anything that has a negative position, so i need a different way of doing this.
Any suggestions?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x0b5b5bc
Try List.Find()
Might not be supported by Unity though.
If you know the largest possible negative value you could offset the values. So that way your lowest possible value would be 0. For example your values can be between -256 and 256 you could just add 256 to all values to find the index. If you do not know the range than this will not work. I suppose you could also use two lists one as the absolute value of the negatives and one as the positive values. Hope this makes sense.
Hmm that would be a good idea, but it isnt limited to a size really, seeing as how its chunks which can be made during runtime for ever how far is needed :l
