problem with trigger check unity

Hello I'm making a 2D game. I have an enemy that has two trigger colliders on each side. I need to make sure that if the Collider is in the trigger, it appears (Debug.Log("right or left will be written here")) and

Code (CSharp):

1. //colliders
2.     public Collider2D TopRig;
3.     public Collider2D TopLef;
4.  
5.     private void OnTriggerStay2D(Collider2D collision)
6.     {
7.         if (TopLef)
8.         {        
9.             Debug.Log("TopLef");
10.         }
11.  
12.         if (TopRig)
13.         {
14.             Debug.Log("TopRig");
15.         }
16.     }

I wrote this script, but when enemy contact any of the trigger colliders, TopReg and topLeft appear in the console

 

Hi Svyathor, you need to compare your variables against the collision:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (collision == TopLef)

and

Code (CSharp):

1. if (collision == TopRig)

 

Thanks but it doesn't help me

 

why not? You Need to better describe what is happening, what you expected to happen and what you want to happen.

 

I have enemy, I want to make him move. So I made 2 trigger colliders on the sides. I want to check which trigger Collider was affected to rotate enemy.

 

How is your enemy gameobject set up? Are both the trigger colliders on the 1 parent gameobject or are they each on separate child gameobjects?

 

it would really help if you told us what you are observing now that you changed the code.

Have you implemented ServantoMallad's correction where you check to see which collider was returned? If so, which of the two if conditions (TL or TR) fires?

Also, it ,ay help if you inserted the following line into OnTriggerEnter:

Code (CSharp):

1. Debug.Log("object that triggered: " + collision.gameObject.name);

and then see if the returned collider object is the one that you expected.

 

OnTriggerStays reports other colliders that come into those trigger bounds.

So checking whether its TopRig or TopLeft makes zero sense, it will not work that way, as it is triggered by different colliders.

To do what you want - calculate direction (collider.transform.position - transform.position) to the reported collider from your position and check against it (e.g. by using .Dot).

 

trigger colliders are children

 

after his advice, nothing appears in the console

 

It's what Vergil pointed out: neither collider will be TL or TR if they are also the trigger. Insert the line that reports which collider was returned, and you'll find that it is the collder that intersected your trigger, not the trigger itself. Your code will not work as it is.

 

In that case, none of your Triggers were triggered.

 

sorry I'm a beginner so I don't understand much, could you write a small example. I want the trigger to react to the Collider crossing. My code works and outputs tag correctly when crossing the Collider, but two trigger colliders are triggered at once and two lines of TopRig and TopLef are output. After writing the if(collision==Topleft) {....} stopped output (Debug.Log). I think the problem is with incorrectly calling the trigger Collider

 

When you are using a Trigger, and a collider is moved into the trigger, the script that is attached to the game object that contains the Trigger is examined if it has an OnTriggerEnter (or in your case: OnTriggerStay) method, and that method is invoked. When invoked, OnTriggerStay is passed the OTHER collider that has entered the Trigger, not which Trigger fired.

You, however, want to find out which Trigger has been triggered. That will not not work this way.

Initially, when you code was

Code (CSharp):

1. if (TopLeft) {}

although that code was legal, it did not do what you thought it did. What you wrote is automatically expanded to

Code (CSharp):

1. if (TopLeft != null) {}

which in your case will always return true since you have connected a collider to your public collider variable.

Currently, your entire logic is wrong. A simple way is to attach a separate script to each collider, and when the collider is triggered, do the appropriate Action for only that collider.

 

Thanks a lot I figured out what to do