How to check that multiple cubes are touching a single cube

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1

Hi guys, I am trying to make the game of life using unity and C# and I need a way to check to see if multiple cubes (at least 3 cubes) are touching a single cube. I was thinking of using OnCollisionEnter but wanted to see if there was another way. I was thinking of somthing along the lines of.

private int counter = 0;
private bool createCell;
void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
{
    if(col.gameObject.tag == "Cube")
        counter++;

    if(counter > 3)
       createCell = true;
}

I am not sure if something like this will work and obviously I still have to make the cases were my cell dies. I am just not 100% sure if OnCollisionEnter() is the right function I want to use to check if multiple cubes are touching a single cube.

2

That’s a good way to do it. The downside of this is you only know which objects touch the single object when you first hit them. If you’re not worried about that, then it’s a perfectly good way to do it.