Child object collision returning parent tag, name etc

Unity Engine
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I have a zombie enemy. It is a zombie gameObject with a zombie tag and a capsuleCollider2D attached. It has a child object with another capsuleCollider2D attached that is tagged AITrigger and named Zombie_Trigger.

When OnTriggerEnter2D is called it is called twice because there are two colliders on the object. However i can’t differentiate between the two colliders. Col.tag returns the tag of the zombie parent gamObject regardless of whether the child collider is triggered or the parent collider is triggered. How can i disregard the collision of the child or parent object so that onTriggerEnter is only triggered once per object?

My code:

else if (col.tag == "Enemy" || col.tag == "Ally" ){

                if (col.gameObject != Caster && collidesEnemy == true){
                    col.gameObject.GetComponent<Enemy>().takeDamage(baseDamage);
                    Destroy(gameObject);
                }
}

My code should work however in Unity collisions in child objects seem to return everything about the parent and nothing about the child object.

Specifically, i only want the Enemy to take damage once. But i also want it to only collide once as if i don’t fix this it could cause more problems down the road.

Thanks.

2

I just found the solution,
instead of using

col.gameObject.tag

try using col.collider.gameObject.transform.tag

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3

Thank you, you saved me hours =)

4

Thanks!!