Send message to parent.

Questions & Answers
1

So, a player has sword, that sword’s child has a trigger collider, the sword has a script which has a function ontriggerenter that applies damage to the collider that it hit. There is an rigidbody enemy that has a child, that child has a collider.

2 Problems :

  1. Sword script never gets activated because the object sword doesn’t have a collider, it’s child does.
  2. Lets say i fixed the first problem. If sword hits enemy, it doesn’t send the apply damage function to the enemy, but the enemies child, which has a collider.

Is there a way to fix these problems without putting colliders on parents, is there some script that sends the damage to the parent, not the child?

2

Solved the second problem by using the function GameObject.SendMessageUpwards to send the message to the collider’s parent.