Physics2D.OverlapArea inaccurate?

"The left one has a script attached which uses the Physics2D.OverlapArea method to find collisions between the two objects"

why? You have colliders. Why not just have them collide? The collision is already happening in the physics engine, so you're recalculating information that's already there for you to pick up if you just add an OnTriggerEnter2D

You are using it wrongly. Read the docs.

It wants opposing corners, not edges. $$anonymous$$in and $$anonymous$$ax are Depth parameters.

Baste: I don't use the built-in physics for colliding since my GameObject has multiple colliders, each colliders bounds colliding on a different layer (by script). Otherwise I can only deter$$anonymous$$e one layer per GameObject. The colliders don't use their "Is Trigger" ability. I usecolliders here to visualize the colliding bounds and to be able to change them by just modifying the according collider bounds.

meat5000: The docs say: "The rectangle is defined by two diagonally opposite corner coordinates in world space. You can think of these as top-left and bottom-right but the test will still work if the ordering of the points is reversed." So what's wrong with the parameters? I tried the following code earlier but it also has the same result as above.

 void Update() {
         Vector2 topLeft = new Vector2(
             collider2D.bounds.center.x - collider2D.bounds.extents.x,
             collider2D.bounds.center.y + collider2D.bounds.extents.y);
 
         Vector2 bottomRight = new Vector2(
             collider2D.bounds.center.x + collider2D.bounds.extents.x,
             collider2D.bounds.center.y - collider2D.bounds.extents.y);
 
         Collider2D result = Physics2D.OverlapArea(topLeft, bottomRight, collidingLayer);
 
         Debug.Log("Player maxX: " + collider2D.bounds.max.x);
 
         if (result != null) {
             Debug.Log("Block $$anonymous$$X: " + result.bounds.$$anonymous$$.x);
         }
     }

In your text you said left and right edge :)

But your corner vectors look correct, only you use bounds max and $$anonymous$$ to debug, which might not be the same.

Debug.Log all the corner points of the offending colliders and see if this holds up.

I dug out an interesting post.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/37412/controllerbounds$$anonymous$$max-is-giving-me-a-value-i-have.html

Is the distance between the objects greater than 4.381 Units? meat5000 is correct. the $$anonymous$$s and max would be the same if the objects were in the same spot.