Can't Return the Tag of a Child Object

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1

I am trying to get the tag of a child object on my player through OnCollisionEnter. But it actually returns the tag of the parent object, even though there is a separate collider and tag. How do I get around this? Or is this a problem with Unity itself? I have noticed some irregularities with Unity 5 lately. Thanks!

The code I am using is plain and simple: print (col.gameObject.tag);

2

Hello friend. You need the following code to get the tag of the child.

Col.gameObject.Tranform.GetChild(“nameofchild”);

Hope this helps.

3

All you’re doing is printing the tag of the object triggering the collision in the code you’ve quoted - does the parent have a collider that is triggering the code? In the case you’ve quoted, however, you could just use col.transform.child.tag (pseudo code - I’m not in front of Unity to test it.)

4

I don’t know what it was but it seems to be working now… It seems like there is some very funky stuff happening in Unity soo… yeah.

5

I just found the solution,

instead of using col.gameObject.tag

try using col.collider.gameObject.transform.tag