OnTriggerEnter source collider?

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With multiple colliders under a rigid body is it possible to tell which collider made the collision on the “this”(source) body?

Let me further explain:

I have a collision between two instances of the same prefab. Here’s the prefab setup.

  • Character (GameObject)

  • rigidbody (Component?)

  • box collider (Component?)

  • Range (GameObject)

  • box collider (Component?)

So Range is a child GameObject of Character. All collider’s have isTrigger checked. I don’t want physics based reactions, I simply want colliders to manage collisions.

Anyway, a component off of Character has this collision code.

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
		
		FieldUnit collidee = other.gameObject.GetComponent<FieldUnit>();
		if (collidee.side != side) //only collide with enemies
		{			
			Debug.log(other.gameObject.name);
		
		}
    }

Now other.gameObject.name above appears to give me the name of the gameObject that was collided into. What I need to know is which gameObject on the current/source/this instance made the collision. Was it the Character’s box collider? or the Range box collider?

Is there a way of doing this? Or is there a better way to go about this in Unity?

Thanks!

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Apologize for digging, but since this answer comes up very early in Google search, for the sake of completion to Unity community.

Allow me to link to my answer on gamedev SO.
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/185095/54452

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