Disabling multiple colliders

I have a huge number of obstacle, like bombs, lizard, snakes, spiders, lianes and so on. Some have polygon colliders, som circle colliders, some edge colliders and so on. The player has extra lives. When he collides with an obstacle and having extra lives, I want to subtract an extra life, and also to disable the collider of the object the player collided with. For instance if he collides with a bomb that has a circle collider attached to it I can write in my script

other.gameObject.GetComponent<CircleCollider2D>().enabled = false;

But I don't want to do that for every type of obstacle. Is there a way to generically turn off the collider, no matter what type of collider the obstacle has. Or would you do it some other way?

 

There seems to be some misunderstanding here about what other signifies. You seem to imply that

Code (CSharp):

1. void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
2.     {
3.         other.enabled = false;

But then Unity complains and says

error CS0200: Property or indexer 'Collision2D.enabled' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only​

Also you are trying to imply that I could use something like

Code (CSharp):

1. other.GetComponent<Bomb>().explode();

But then I get the error

error CS1061: 'Collision2D' does not contain a definition for 'GetComponent' and no accessible extension method 'GetComponent' accepting a first argument of type 'Collision2D' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)​

On the other hand

Code (CSharp):

1. other.gameObject.GetComponent<Bomb>().explode();

works without problems

 

So you could try using other.gameObject.GetComponent<Collider2D>().enabled = false;

I believe that should work for any 2D collider type.

Additionally, you could have the script on the enemy and do the reverse. When they collide with player or bomb or w/e, you disable the collider that way.

One other way i just thought of if the generic Collider2D doesnt work, then you could just create a small function that checks what collider is present on that object and then disables it.

like:

Code (CSharp):

1. private void CheckColliderTypeAndDisable()
2.     {
3.         if(gameObject.GetComponent<Collider2D>().GetType() == typeof(BoxCollider2D))
4.         {
5.             //Disable collider
6.             return;
7.         }
8.         else if(gameObject.GetComponent<Collider2D>().GetType() == typeof(CircleCollider2D))
9.         {
10.             //Disable collider
11.             return;
12.         }
13.  
14.         //etc....
15.     }

It may be a bit ugly but its one way to have one function and disable any type of collider2D (if the above mentioned doesnt work)