koobas.hobune.stream
Need Extremely Specific Collision Detection (2D)
So what I want to have happen is that when a bullet hits the player, the level resets as the player is effectively killed. However, there is a child of the player with a totally different tag ("Deflector") that, when hit, should not result in a level reset. The problem is I am not sure how to get the game to check the tag of the child object so that when it hits the main player, it's a kill, but when it hits the deflector, nothing happens.
The code looks like this. void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D Other) { if (Other.gameObject.tag == "Player") { Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel); } }
Instead of checking only player, you can check each part respectively with if-else statements. Game objects with colliders will check any collider regardless of their parents and/or children.
void OnCollisionEnter2D( Collision2D other) {
if (Other.gameObject.tag == "Head") { // This is the head collider, headshot
Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel);
}
else if (Other.gameObject.tag == "Deflector") { // This is the deflector collider,
//have player health drop here
}
else if (Other.gameObject.tag == "Other Body Parts") { // This can be multiple body parts
// have player health drop here
}
}
I'd personally suggest using trigger colliders instead of physic colliders, and use OnTriggerEnter2D. However, that's up to you and your game design.
The nested else if statements didn't work, for reasons I can't imagine. However you did suggest using triggers instead. The Deflector absolutely must use collisions, but the player's collider isn't that sacred even though I do still want one. With this in mind, I removed the deflector from a collision statement entirely (after a bit of experimenting it wasn't completely necessary to have a collision2D statement where, after the If statement it did absolutely nothing) and put the player sphere in an OnTriggerEnter2D statement.
In other words, everything works now, thanks for your help!
