OnTriggerEnter on different targets during same "swing"?

Hello party people.

I have an issue regarding my melee fighting system.
Lets say i swing a sword with a script attached with OnTriggerEnter that deals damage when it enters a collider.
My swing is a "double swing", meaning that it goes the same way back as it did forward, therefor hitting the colliders twice. To fix that i deal only damage once i add a boolean to only deal damage once.
But what if there are two different colliders that get hit by my swing? right now i can only damage one, and i cannot figure out how to proceed.

Thank you

 

This is a give for take issue. I think that you should enable the double damage and because it hits twice, reduce the damage to half. If that's the case.

Note: I am not an expert in melee games. That was just my personal opinion.

 

Yeah, but its really not just twice it hits, i just wrote that for simplicity. Its more, give or take 5 times. I need it to be as i wrote thanks anyway

 

I want to add that i found a very good solution that covers everything i asked for. I simply dug a lot deeper.
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1274480/is-it-possible-to-combine-child-trigger-of-a-objec.html

 

How about have the attack keep a list of colliders it has hit. In on trigger enter check if the collider is already contained in the list. An animation event at the end of the swing could clear the list.

Another option might be to have the damage not related to the collider on the weapon but to a damage zone trigger collider that covers the area of the attack.It would be enabled for a very short time at the climax of the attack.

 

wow very creative solution, thanks! Using this 4 years later.