Get Component from parent on compound OnTriggerEnter

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1

I have an object with children game objects that are the compound collider. The Parent gameobject has the EnemyHealth script attached. I can collide with the compound colliders, and when my ‘lasers’ collide with the parent gameobject they spawn the explosion but do not reference the EnemyHealth script.

Is this because the on Trigger into is trying to get the EnemyHealth from the compound collider and not from the Parent gameobject with EnemyHeath attached to it?

What’s the correct way of trying to find the parents EnemyHealth component then?

	void OnTriggerEnter (Collider other)
	{
		if (other.tag == "Enemy")
		{

			EnemyHealth enemyHealth = other.GetComponent<Collider>().GetComponent <EnemyHealth>();
				if(enemyHealth != null)
				{
					enemyHealth.TakeDamage (attackDamage);
				}
			TrashMan.spawn  (explosion, transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(270, 0, 0));
			//Despawn laser
			TrashMan.despawn (gameObject);
		}
	}
2

Yeah thanks for the help, you set me on the right path!

What I was looking is Component.GetComponentInParent ();
Writing the line like this:

EnemyHealth enemyHealth = other.GetComponent<Collider>().GetComponentInParent <EnemyHealth>();

It then gets the parent object with the HealthComponent, from the collision on the child compound collider.