Is there a way to make OnTriggerEnter work only for the colliders marked as triggers?

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve looked around, but I haven’t quite found my question. I’m making a very simple game and one of the aspects of the game is pushing and pulling a box. I got that part figured out, but currently if the player stands on the box, they can pull it around. I tried fixing this by making the trigger close to the ground, but, I guess, on trigger enter works for colliders that aren’t marked as triggers as well.

I feel like I’m missing something obvious. I could, probably, just put this behavior in a child object and put the trigger there. But I want to know if there’s a smarter solution.

Relevant Code:

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other){
	if (other.tag == "Player") {
		near = true;
		//Debug.Log ("Near is:" + near);
	}
}
void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D other){
	if (other.tag == "Player") {
		near = false;
		//Debug.Log ("Near is:" + near);
	}
}

Screenshot of Colliders:
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3

If you need to make it work only with triggers, then just check if the other collider is a trigger using other.isTrigger. Problem solved. For more advanced control you will need to look into collision matrix.

2

OnTriggerEnter does only fire when a collider enters another marked as a trigger. It looks from your screenshot that you have both a trigger and a non-trigger collider on the same object. This makes a compound collider - effevely merging the bounds of the colliders into one.

To keep them separate, add the collider components to separate child objects and/or place them on separate collision layers.