Access parent's rigidbody

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1

I’ve stumbled upon this thread, which says, that it’s not possible to access a child’s rigidbody.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/36462-onCollisionEnter-does-not-work-on-a-child-colider

Now, i have the opposite situation, i’ve got my player as parent, with the graphics and the character controller as child.

The collision event does work, thus it seems i can’t access the parent’s rigidbody. It returns null.

Is this the intented behaviour?

I’ve tried to access it via

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider obj) {
if (obj.tag == "Player"){
			obj.transform.gameObject.SendMessage("apply_damage", damage, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
player = obj.transform.parent.gameObject;
			player.rigidbody.AddExplosionForce(pushback*2, obj.transform.position,2,3, ForceMode.Impulse);
			Destroy(gameObject);
			
		}
		
	}
2

Thanks for the answers… But my player has a rigidbody attached, but it still doesn’t work… I’ll investigate this a little further…

But it helps to know that my code SHOULD work :smiley: