help with choosing proper data structure

Unity Engine
1

Hi!

I have level that consists of cubes. it will be vary in size but lets say it will be like this
width: 8 cubes
heigth 8 cubes
length 16 cubes

cube is 1 scale

I currently generate it by looping and translating by 1 unit like this:

IEnumerator Create()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < Length; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < Height; j++)
            {
                for (int k = 0; k < Width; k++)
                {
                    var g = NGUITools.AddChild(Root, Prefab);
                    if (g != null)
                    {
                        g.transform.position = Vector3.zero;
                        g.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
                        
                        g.transform.Translate(new Vector3(k-Width/2f+ 0.5f,j-Height/2f+ 0.5f,i-Length/2f+ 0.5f));
                    }

                    yield return null;
                }
            }
          
        }
    }

I used NGUITools.AddChild because cube has some ui elements that are displayed on one of its sides. this propery creates the cubes, i am just wondering how to store this information so i can easily access cubes that are on the surface or by some meanful way. any ideas? jagged arrays? lists,dict or something else?

any idea is appreciated!

2

Fit the solution to the problem. Since it’s only a maximum of 1024 objects, you can probably get by with a simple 3-dimensional array. If you have more objects, you could use a BSP tree, octree, or similar space partitioning technique. I think the solution will depend on what your requirements are for getting information in “some meaningful way”.