Issue with OnTriggerEnter()

I'm fairly new to unity and am basically just learning the simple stuff, sorry in advance if this is a dumb mistake, and for the inevitable formatting errors.

I have a player in a 2d game, that will walk over a flower that has a Box Collider 2d with IsTrigger checked, and then the following script on the player object should send a message to let me know the player collided with the trigger

using UnityEngine;



public class Itempickupchecker : MonoBehaviour

{

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)

    {

        Debug.Log("Flower picked up");

    }

 

}

however when the player walks over the flower nothing happens. The collider on the flower is this:

and the colliders on the player are these:


I think the issue is either a typo, something wrong with the colliders/rigidbody or me using some function or component meant for a 3d game perhaps, but im not really too sure

thanks for any help

 

Are they both on the same layer?

 

I believe so, if i make the flower's collider not a trigger then the player can bump into it and stand on it etc

 

OnTriggerEnter() is the 3D version. You want this:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnTriggerEnter2D.html

 

You need to use OnTriggerEnter2D

 

Thanks!

 

Woops, I had missed that one... Shame on me.