Filling space

Unity Engine
1

Any good and time friendly idea to fill in a x*x space with tiles?

Edit: via script of course

2

And if maybe someone could tell me, which is faster, the for method or instantiating a prefab with the cubes already in it?

3

Gorbit, I use Unity 4., and unless Unity 5 has a special feature to create objects and arrange them in tiles, you will need to use two For to create an XX arrangement.

for (int r = 0; r < amountOfFiles; ++r) {
      for (int c = 0; c < amountOfColumns; ++c) {
            //Here your code to instantiate objects.
      }
}
4

ocd shudder rows and columns, ranks and files… files and columns ??? :stuck_out_tongue:

5

Yeah, i meant a better way than that

6

I don’t know if there is a better way; maybe someone else can help :confused:
For me it is quite simple º_º

7

The other idea that i mentioned is to instantiate a prefab with all the tiles in it, but I scrapped that, beacause then I needed them to be in an array, and it’s not variable

8

I discarded the idea of instantiate a prefab with X amount of cubes because, as you said, if you want in a future to change the amount of objects, you will suffer a little bit :P.

A little script with a nested FORs sounds good to me, but I insist that I don’t know Unity 5 which could have some “magic” way to tile things.

Why are you looking for other alternatives? do you experience some bottle neck /overhead?

9

Because if there’s a way that i don’t know (and in most of the cases there is one), and it’s far more effective than what i’m using, then i’m gonna use it and spare a bunch of time, it’s just that simple