Get Nearest in Orthographic game

I was wondering what is the best way to make the function Get Nearest to work not in circle but in elipse for faking perspective in ortho game?

Thanks

Check for overlap using an invisible ellipse shaped sprite?

Nice :)

It may work in my case but I want to make a woodcutter searching for the nearest tree to cut. Maps could be quite big so the elipse will get too huge.

If there's another way i would prefer it.

Anyways i'll keep that in mind im sure i'll use it in other cases. Thanks.

Pakost the ellipse only has to be as big as the range of the area you want to look in... and you pin it to the player maybe so that it stays with them...

For each tree, pick the smallest relative distance between the woodcutter by using a modified dy (assuming the major axis of your ellipse is on the x axis).

Modified dy = (Woodcutter.Y - Tree.Y) * Ellipse.Width / Ellipse.Height

Distance = (dx^2 + dy^2)^-2

You could even just pick the smallest of the Abs(dx) + Abs(dy), since the actual distance value is not really needed.

A function returning the UID of the closest tree would work great !

Magistross great idea

I cooked something in a hurry there.

Works like a charm.

It took me some hours to understand and implemend it but finally i did.

Thanks both of you guys, and Magistross thanks for the example. Couldnt do it without it.