Question Stop counting score in OnTriggerStay

I currently am designing a VR game where the user will be using a 3D Systems haptics arm to control a virtual pointer. When the pointer enters an object's trigger, it should deduct a certain amount points from their total.

However, the problem I have is when the pointer stays inside the object. If I leave the pointer in the object and move it around in it, points will continuously reduce. Is this intentional? If not, I would hope that

void OnTriggerStay()

would help me fix that. I would just need to figure out how to prevent the game from deducting points while the pointer is in the object.

 

It would certainly help seeing the code you have when trying to implement this. You might have forgotten something when creating the logic for this.

 

triggerstay fires continuously, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnTriggerStay.html
can use ontriggerenter/ontriggerexit combination to know when you entered, exit.

 

This is the code in question:

Code (CSharp):

1. void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
2.     if (scene.name == "AlmostThere")
3.         {
4.             if (other.gameObject.name == "default (1)")
5.             {
6.                 inTrigger = true;
7.                 print("Hit bladder!");
8.                 Text bladderText = GameObject.Find("Haptic_And_Camera/[CameraRig]/Canvas/Panel/BladderText").GetComponent<Text>();
9.                 print(bladderText);
10.                 bladderText.text = "Bladder: Collision!";
11.                 bladderText.color = Color.red;
12.                 buzz.Play();
13.                 this.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = Color.red;
14.  
15.                 int.TryParse(overallText.text, out overallNumber);
16.                 overallNumber -= 10;
17.                 overallText.text = overallNumber.ToString();
18.  
19.                 if (overallNumber < 0)
20.                 {
21.                     overallNumber = 0;
22.                     overallText.text = "0";
23.                 }
24.  
25.                 if (overallNumber == 0)
26.                 {
27.                     failed.SetActive(true);
28.                 }
29.             }
30.  
31.         }
32.  
33.     }

 

As mgear mentioned OnTriggerEnter() should work

Also check the collider bounds on both the hitting object and the object being hit, are they colliding multiple times because they're too small or something?

Instead of checking the game objects name you could filter by tag instead

 

The object in question is this probe with a hand attached to it. Ideally, only the end of this probe would be the part colliding with other objects.



The probe itself is the one with a collider, I removed the collider from the hand. The collider itself is quite unconventional.