How to stop object from moving after calling transform.Translate()

Hello, in my game I need a car to stop moving after it contacts my player, but no matter what I try to the car wont stop moving forward and pushing forward. Help on this issue would be greatly appreciated


public class CarMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
float speed = 5f;
bool shouldMove = true;

private void Update()
{
if (shouldMove == true)
{
transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, 0, speed) * Time.deltaTime);
}
}
private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
{
if (col.gameObject.name == "Player")
{
transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, 0, 0));
shouldMove = false;
}
}
}

 

I would first check with a

Debug.Log

that

OnCollisionEnter

is actually being called in the first place. And if it is, another one after your first if statement to see if its indeed registering whether it hits the player.

 

thanks for the quick reply, I happened to test it out and the if statement is working but OnCollisonEnter is not being called. How do I fix this?

 

The documentation generally has the answers you seek: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnCollisionEnter.html

Read the description carefully and may see where you might have gone astray.

 

I didn't read that carefully enough the last time, thanks for your help. Turns out that OnCollisionEnter only works if one of the objects has a non-kinematic rigidbody. This is weird since my player is using a character controller and the car was simply moving through transform.Translate(), yet OnCollsionEnter worked successfully for the player. I ended up slapping on a rigid body to the car and checked all the contraints so the script would work.