GetComponentInParent not working

Hello,
I'm trying to set up a radius that causes a parent collider to turn off and on, for a teleporter or something that you have to take a step back before walking back up to it to turn it back on again. For some reason, my code:

voidOnTriggerExit(Collidertarget)
{
if(target.gameObject.tag.Equals("Player")==true){
GetComponentInParent<Collider>().enabled=true;

}
}
Isn't re-activating the parent collider. It is getting hit because debug.logs can come up in the debugger, but the actual collider never wakes back up. Is my syntax wrong? Thanks

 

First I'd like to say you can modify your if statement to be better.

if(target.gameObject.tag == "Player") looks much better.

Next, for a possible attempt to fix your problem. I'm assuming you have a parent collider and a child with a collider as well? The child is triggering the parent collider to turn off and on? A possible check is to assign the collider to a variable when you enter and see if that works. I'm assuming that your OnTriggerEnter is working since it sounds like it's being turned off.

Code (CSharp):

1. private Collider parentCollider;
2.  
3. void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
4. {
5.    if(other.gameObject.tag == "Player")
6.    {
7.        parentCollider = GetComponentInParent<Collider>();
8.       parentCollider.enabled = false;
9.    }
10. }
11.  
12. void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
13. {
14.    if(other.gameObject.tag == "Player")
15.    {
16.       parentCollider.enabled = true;
17.    }
18. }

You can try something like this to see if it's working correctly. Add some debugs within the if statements as well. And if nothing else, do a print on parentCollider.gameObject to make sure it is targetting what it is suppose to(you could do this print/debug.log now as well to double check).

Actually, I'm looking at http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.GetComponentInParent.html and it seems the GetComponentInParent returns the component on the gameObject you hit as well. So it's a good chance you are getting the child collider.

You might be better off doing

Code (CSharp):

1. transform.parent.getComponent<Collider>().enabled = true;

 

Hi Jason,
is it possible, that your collider needs to be enabled to trigger your function, but in this situation he is disabled?

Grischa

 

Hello, thanks for the responses. Found it was finding the collider on itself and stopping. When I changed the .enabled to false I saw that it wasn't going up the chain to the parent, rather just turning itself off.
Instead now I have it going up a layer to a script on the parent object (which is running anyway) to turn the collider back on

 

Yeah, I modified my post after looking at getComponentInParent. Added code that should fix it.