Moving GameObjects without ArcGicLocation or ArcGisPoint?

[genarus]

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! 

[ChrisAnderson7]

The gameobject containing arcgislocation doesn't have to be the gameobject that is visible to your user. you can still have a child gameobject that you move by calculating the offset (from the parent's arcgislocation coordinate).

[genarus]

Thanks! How would that Work tho? Is there No way to e.g. convert a lat/lon or metrics Meters value to a Unity GameObject Position/Transform? Without using those dann ArcgisLocation Components at all?

[ChrisAnderson7]

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.

[genarus]

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? 

[genarus]

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?!