Moving GameObjects without ArcGicLocation or ArcGisPoint?

Question

Hey there!

I have to display AND MOVE many geo-entities. The important thing is to move. Each has an ArcGicLocation component and currently I change the position over it by creating a new ArcGisPoint and transferring it to the location. But ArcGisPoint is a class... you can only change it by creating a new one... that makes it difficult.

This means I have to create and assign new instances EVERY frame, which creates an incredible amount of garbage. So isn't there a way to move geo-entities without creating an ArcGisPoint? By simply changing the values there? Or can I directly use the HP-Transform to move geo-entities to their geo-position?

I want to move my geo-entities to a specific Web Mercator point (in meters, 3857).

Anyone having a clue how that works? Glad for any help!

genarus · Answer

Any of the devs or contributors here? Is there a way? And if not, what else to do when we need to move a lot of objects every frame? And more importantly, why is ArcGisPoint no struct?!

genarus · Answer

Hmm... unfortunately I can not find any util classes or methods to do that. All I find require an ArcGisPoint which is a class ( for some reason instead of a structure) and is expensive to use. What are we missing? Is there even a way without using such an ArcgisPoint?

ChrisAnderson7 · Answer

I don't have access to my computer at the moment but look in the documentation. There are some helper functions that Esri provides that will convert between scene coordinates and geo coordinates.