[Solved] Scripting Problem?

Unity Engine
1

Hello All,

I am having a small problem with my script I’m sure everything is linked up correctly but cannot figure what it is I am doing wrong - probably something stupid:sweat_smile:. The problem is twofold firstly I cannot get the sound to play when the Trigger is activated and I cannot get the gameoject to recognise what it is that hit it namely the player.

The script is this:

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider Other){

        print("Collision");

        if (Other.gameObject.tag == "Player"){
            //print to console not working
            print("collision with player Car");
            //playsound here
            //not working?!?
        }

        //sound not working here either
        audioSource.PlayOneShot(checkPoint, 1f);

        //both these work
        halfwayTrigger.SetActive(false);
        finishTrigger.SetActive(true);
   
    }//end OnTriggerEnter()

To anyone who can help here is a big thankyou in advance.

Regards.

2

Just tidied it up a bit, still broken however. We need more information.
How are you assigning ‘checkPoint’. How are you assigning ‘audioSource’. In the inspector? Are they actually assigned?

// Lowercase o for 'other' - Naming convention for variable names
void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    // I assume this first print actually displays in the console
    print("Collision");
     // The preferred way to check tags is now CompareTag
    if (Other.gameObject.CompareTag("Player") == true) {
        // print to console not working
        print("collision with player Car");
    }
    
     // How are you assigning this 'audioSource'?
     // Do you get any errors?
     // Do you actually have this sound 'checkPoint'?
    audioSource.PlayOneShot(checkPoint, 1f);
    halfwayTrigger.SetActive(false);
    finishTrigger.SetActive(true);
}
3

Thanks for your reply!

Thankyou for explaining the newer way of using tags didn’t know anything about that.

With the code Line 5, where I have print(“Collision”), it actually does work.

Line 7, still doesn’t respond to the Car object ie “Player”. As far as I know the Car is correctly tagged as “Player”, as it is listed in the Inspector as such. Could it be because the Car Object has defined it’s own colliders?

I had a lot of trouble adding sound in this 3D project so I have been using the method of publicly assigning an AudioClip and then using an AudioSource to play it. I couldn’t figure out any way to do it as using just an AudioSource and using whatever.Play(); wasn’t working?!? And did it this way as I found it in the Unity Docs. So, AudioSource is assigned in the Start() method:

//AudioClip defined at top of class
//linked in thru Inspector
public AudioClip checkPoint;

void Start () {
        audioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    }

So, any advice to get the sound working would be greatly appreciated