Pickups with some physics

Physics
1

Hello,

I am trying to implement 2d pickups with just a plane and texture, and it will bounce out when spawned(enemy death). The pickups will then bounce until it comes to a stop. When player gets close enough the pickup will travel towards him. Sounds easy, but I hit a few snags.

I implemented it with a rigidbody and bouncy physics mat, but when the player collides with the pickup he has a little bounce to him before the pickup is finally destroyed. Destroy call is happening in OnCollisionEnter() btw. Maybe I am missing something to prevent this? Also, Is there a way for it not to collide with other certain rigidbodies, don’t need it to bounce off other items spawned with the enemy?

I also implemented it using a trigger, but I am losing out on physics. Seems I would have to handle my own physics in OnTriggerEnter?, how would I go about to do this? I would need to bounce off of walls and the ground.

Any help appreciated.

2

There are a few ways I can think of to do this, but the most straightforward (I think) is to simply set your pickups to ignore collisions with the player.

3

Thanks

Sounds like it will work. That will prevent the pickups from hitting enemies and will prevent the bump when player picks it up. I guess I would need some other type of collision detection inside the player for picking them up ex: Overlap/CheckSphere?

4

That’s a good point. I reckon you could probably attach an empty game object to the pickup and attach a collider [trigger = true] to that, and use that for detecting the player.

5

That’s a good idea, Ill see how that works.