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I’ve created scripts that spawn a grid of soil sections and sectors (sectors containing sections) and now I want another GameObject (a plant) to be able to detect which section and sector it is inside.

basically I want to do something like this, in theory

   PlantClass { 
        GameObject _soilSection;
    
        OnTriggerStay(Trigger other)   //instead of Collider other, so the plant can detect which trigger it is inside instead of the trigger detecting which collider is inside it
            {
                if (other.gameObject.tag == "SoilSection")
                    {
                        _soilSection = other.gameObject;
                    }
            }
    }

Is something like this possible without having every soil section regularly update to some trigger manager that would be accessed by the plant?

I don’t think it would make sense to do it with a trigger manager because there are a lot of soil sections and only one of them will have the plant in question inside it.

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It already works that way. Add this script to your Plant GameObject to see the effects.

ExampleClass.cs

using UnityEngine;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour
{
	void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
	{
		Debug.Log(name + " is entering Trigger " + other.name);
	}

	void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
	{
		Debug.Log(name + " is within Trigger " + other.name);
	}

	void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
	{
		Debug.Log(name + " is leaving Trigger " + other.name);
	}
}