I'm requesting scripting commands that allow us to get objects/entities in a square's area. The current commands we have only allow for a circle's radius:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearEntities
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearObjects
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearestObjects
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearestObject
Either these commands should be modified to allow us to check a square's radius or there should be new commands added in.
If you really need all entities inside a square, you could write a function that checks if the returned entities by nearObjects etc are inside a square.
See http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/190111/how-to-check-if-a-point-is-inside-a-rectangle
The issue I have with these functions is that if you use this in a square you will miss what is in the corners. But if you make the search radius bigger, say 1.41421356237309504880 so that it covers the corners, you get a bunch of extra objects you don't need/want due to the expansion of the search radius.