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Problem with colliders in topdown 2d scene with many floors
Recently I ran into an complication in Unity that I don't know how to get out of. None of the solutions I came up with seems fully appropriate and requires some compromises. It looks like an engine weakness to me. But to the point.
I have 2D top down scene with has many levels (floors). Every floor is placed on different Z value (every 1 unit) and all floors are enabled all the time.
Focusing on specific floor is done by manipulating clipping plane of camera. This works great but the problem is with Physics2D.
I use Collider2D, but I do not want colliders on one floor (z = 0) to collide with colliders on another floor (z = 1, a higher ground). But 2D colliders ignore z-axis so player moving on one floor hits colliders on other floor.
I cannot use layers for this because amount of floors exceeds the number of layers in Unity. And also I use layers for something else.
Tried to use triggers, to manage manually collision, but it didn't work well.
I was also thinking of moving to Physis3D. But I use tilemaps with colliders, and I believe tilemaps do not work with Collider3D.
Is it possible to somehow make Collider2D to use the Z value?
if not, then I thing its a room for improvement by Unity. A setting like "Physics2D not ignore Z axis"
Is your game 2D or 3D? 2D physics in unity is done on the XY plane. To my knowledge, there is no way to change that. I believe that it doesn’t matter what value you give a transform’s Z position, the collider will always be in line with the XY plane.
You need to either change the physics engine to 3D or change the orientation of your gameplay
