RaycastAll/RaycastHit - select "outermost" collider among nested colliders?

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It seems RaycastAll/RaycastHit provides an array of collider hits in no particular order.

I'm wondering how I would go about ordering them say from innermost to outermost for a group of nested colliders? Or, more simply, just select the "outermost".

Please note I have no target in mind. The outermost could be gameObject A,X,alpha,Bob,Tom, etc. I'm not looking to identify a hit by name or tag.

I imagine one could test for distance to the camera (assuming the camera is outside the "outermost" collider). Wondering if there is a simpler approach.

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Answer by Mike 3 · Jun 13, 2010 at 04:19 PM

I would order them by the lowest value of Vector3.Distance(startOfRay, hit.point)

On top of that, I'd just write a simple IComparable implementation so that you can just simply use yourArray.Sort(comparer) and it'll sort it in very few lines of code

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pickledzebra · Jun 13, 2010 at 05:03 PM 0

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Thanks $$anonymous$$ike. Very helpful.

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