nearestObjects https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearestObjects does, and the example is right there on biki:

nearestObjects [player, [], 50];

Hey Killzone Kid!

Just to do a short act of worshiping, I'm very impressed of your skripting skills judgin from what you post on your site. Kudos! ;-)

Now for <b>nearestObjects</b> function, it returned some "sharpe stone" or so, but for the trees it only gave me one tree so far, the <i>t_ficusb1s</i>. I tested it standing between two different trees (basketball court in Kavala), yet it only returns the ficus. It also returns me two ficusses (or whatever the plural is) if I'm standing between two of them, but no other trees.

I'm wondering why, because I used it just as it is in the wiki (only with a 10 meter radius).

Btw, I don't know how many people have already asked you, but do you have an email, XMPP-address or another chat possibility? I might have some questions...

If you are in the DayZ forum, you can find me as "Heeeere's Johnny".

Best regards,
Johnny

It is simple, distance to a tree is measured to its centre, which is about half way up the trunk. So to detect tall trees you need to increase detection radius.

Oh! Strange, but ... ok. Good thing to know. Thanks!

(Still, any way to contact you for some more questions?)

EDIT: OK, rocks and trees do work. But still, I can't get any bushes or grass. Except for actual terrain structures like roads or soil, I don't get why it doesn't return any bushes or grass... seemingly...

I personally believe the main reason our access to map objects, like vegetation and road objects, is limited because they don't have cfgVehicles classes. That's what separates editor objects from these specific map objects. The very fact that their simulation is extremely limited is likely what allows such vast quantities of them to be placed down.

Also, I believe grass is procedurally generated with the map, so I wouldn't expect to be able to mess with it that much.

Seems senseful. That's one of the annoying things though. Obviously BI has a way to do certain things like AI pathfinding on roads and such. But because this is classified information, no "non-Bohemian" can actually participate in improving SQF as for instance path finding is always an issue. :-(

Closing as per request.