call a function from an object that has been collided with?

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Hello.

I have two objects. Player, and statue. When the player collides with the statue, I want to be able to call a function that is on a script attached to the statue. There will be many statues in the game, so I want to only call the function on that one specific statue.

Currently I have the collision set up between the player and the statue, and it is all detected fine. I can get the statue gameobject from using collsion.gameObject. But I want to call the script that is on the statue, from another piece in the code (not the collision code). How would I call this script using the gameObject obtained from the collsiion.gameObject. Or is there another way to do this.? thanks

Edit : I may have found a way using

statueScript = collision.gameObject.GetComponent();

I am still testing this out, but think it is working. If anyone reading this knows if this should work could you please let me know.

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Why not just have script on the statue detect when it collides with the player? Then call it’s own function.

Edit: Yeah, the thing you are trying should work too, but you might end-up with a lot of random object-handling routines on the player when maybe it would be easier if other objects just handle their own business

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