koobas.hobune.stream
Child gameObject with collider not colliding if parent has rigidBody
I have a "Player" gameobject with a rigidBody with isKinematic=false (for enemies' weapons to detect collisions when hitting it) and a CapsuleCollider. The player has a child gameObject "weapon" that has a BoxCollider and a script attached to it that detects collisions with the OnCollisionEnter(), when hitting an "enemy" rigidBody.
I have an "Enemy" gameObject with a rigidBody (isKinematic=false) and a CapsuleCollider attached.
Whenever the player's weapon hits the enemy, the OnCollisionEnter() of the player's weapon is NOT called. Only when I remove the player's parent rigidbody, the OnCollisionEnter() of the child weapon suddenly starts to be called.
Is the "player" rigidBody interfering with its child weapon collisions? Why??
this behavior is by design. a rigidbody combines all it's child colliders to a form a compound collider.
adding another rigidbody as kinematic to your weapon breaks this up again.
Thanks @hexagonius, I'll try your suggestion about adding another rigidbody as kinematic to the weapon.
Now, I still don't understand the reasoning behind the parent's rigidBody affecting the child's collisions. Why does it do that? What does it have to do? If the weapon has a collider, and the object being hit (in this case the enemy) has a collider and a rigidbody, why isn't the collision being detected?
UPDATE: adding rigidbody as kinematic didn't work. What did work was adding a rigidBody (non-kinematic and freezing all rotations and axes) on both weapons (player's and enemy's). I recall that solution causing issues in the past... but now, so far, it has worked as expected.
this manual page explains it. go to collision where the weapon is shown:
https://docs.unity3d.com/$$anonymous$$anual/class-Rigidbody.html
