Advice on using the detonator scripts

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1

I have a script that handles death of objects. When something dies I will call the Detonator script to produce the highly satisfying explosions.

I am however facing a few problems.

Firstly, because the detonator script is attached to the object, if I destroy the object immediately then the explosion gets destroyed with it. I consequently made my object hang around for a bit longer (the duration of the explosion) but then find that if the object recieved a volley of shots, each of the shots will cause an explosion.

All this makes sense but I dont know the best way of getting around this. One option is to create a completely separate object and attach the explosion to that. The second option is alter the object that is exploding such that it no longer has a collider (so the follow on shots wont hit it) and make the object non-visible. The second option seems really uggly.

My guess is either the first or there is fundermental in the way that this subsystem should be used that I’ve missed.

I would like to get advice from people that have used the Detonator package on how it ought to be used.

2

The easiest solution would be to instantiate the explosion just as your object dies, if you do it like mine below then its a seperate object, and detonator will remove itself after a delay specified in one of the scripts.

an example of my death script:
function death()
{
var newExplosion : Transform = Instantiate(explosion, transform.position, transform.rotation);
Destroy(craft,0);
}

Otherwise you could also detatch the detonator object before you destroy the object, like so:

transform.DetachChildren();
Destroy(gameObject);

hope that helps, the detonator scripts are great!