How to check versus Interface or Class with Terrain collisions?

Unity Engine
1

I have a piece of code in my game I already hate. The intention is to simply check whether a collision hits a terrain object, in case I want the collision to be handled in a specific way. I looked for a way to detect the terrain and went with this for now:

if (collision.gameObject.name == "Terrain")
        {
            movement.grounded = true;
            movement.jumpTimes = 0;
        }

Terrible! I’ve tried casting collision.gameObject to the Terrain class to get a satisfying bool, but that doesn’t work. Basicly my goal is to isolate the Terrain class and check for that instead of some arbitary instance name. I’m new to the codebase so I figured the answer is probably quite simple and I’m just not seeing it yet :stuck_out_tongue:

2

…aaaand I figured out a solution 5 minutes after posting. For anyone interested, my fix was to check for the TerrainCollider component (and I am still open for better ideas)!

if (collision.gameObject.GetComponent<TerrainCollider>() != null)
        {
            movement.grounded = true;
            movement.jumpTimes = 0;
        }
3

An alternative might be something like

            if(collision.gameObject.layer == LayerMask.GetMask("Terrain")) {

            }