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Game Development

Posted by Richard Melrose
Richard Melrose
4,201 Points

bird not colliding with frog

I have followed all the steps for the frog game to set up the bird following the frog. Everything is fine but after completing the last section of setting up the player health. The bird just walks up to the frog, does the idle animation and nothing happens. I not sure what I am missing the bird is tagged as "Enemy" and I have been over the code. Could anyone give me any Idea what I need to do

public class PlayerHealth : MonoBehaviour {

public bool alive;
[SerializeField]
private GameObject pickupPrefab;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
    alive = true;
}

void onTriggerEnter (Collider other) {
    if (other.CompareTag ("Enemy") && alive == true) {
        alive = false;

        // create pick up particales
        Instantiate(pickupPrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
    }
        }

}

Thanks

1 Answer

Alan Mattanó
PLUS
Alan Mattanó
Courses Plus Student 12,188 Points
Alan Mattanó
Alan Mattanó
Courses Plus Student 12,188 Points

Go to the point where "idle animation and nothing happens". Try to understand what are the conditions you need for triggering what you are looking for. Try to debug in console each condition: is "alive" true? Is the tag set to "Enemy"?. 

      `
      if (alive) Debug.Log("Is alive !" );
      `

You can pause the game modify your code and debug the conditions.

Richard Melrose
Richard Melrose
4,201 Points

Thanks, That helps and I have managed to fix where I went wrong :)