Setup: I have a game where I have set up a series of prefabs, and these prefabs all have nodes (empty GameObjects for now), and some of them have SpawnPoints (workaround for nested prefabs that simply instantiate a given GameObject). all of the nodes are currently named Node#, and I can put them on their own layer, or give them a certain Tag if that will help.
desired outcome: I want to search through a GameObject, and find all items of a given name, or have a given Tag so that I can register them for access by other things.
Information: I know that GameObject.Find(string name) is slow, and only returns the first thing it finds, and GameObject.FindWithTag(string Tag) aslo only returns the first thing it finds, but is faster.
I don’t want to have to give every node, or SpawnPoint a specific layer mainly because of a cheviot of the level will by dynamically/randomly generated, so I will not know how many of these things there are. there will be constraints like knowing the dimensions of a given subspace of the level (room, and I am more interested in what is in each room then in the overall level)
Question: how do I effectively find all objects of a given name, or property within a given space that are all defined (exist as members of the prefab object)
Edit: these rooms will be chosen, and placed pseudo-randomly with a unknown amount, configuration, and type.
(following @## refers to a given room prefab/rule) one configuration could have: 5-R02, 2-R06, 7-C01, and 4-C02. this could be a small configuration, but can be seen as a trivial case. while another configuration could have: 1-R01, 1-R02, 3-R04, 8-R06, 18-C01, and 2-C04. which might be a larger, and more complex case, but still feasible with the system.