Unity seems to be not registering a specific tag

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1

I have an object tagged ‘red’ and an object tagged ‘orange’ that both have a similar setup. When a cube, which has a rigidbody, collides with the red object it destroys it using Destroy (other.gameObject); but when it collides with the orange object it doesn’t. I gave the orange object the ‘red’ tag and the cube destroys it fine. The code telling the code to destroy the red and orange objects is identical.

  • edit Ok I should also mention that there are 8 different objects that the cube can collide with and all detection is done in a bunch of if else statements. And, most importantly, if I move the line about destroying the orange object higher up the chain of if else statements…it works! What is going on!?!

          void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) 
   {
  if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("whitewall")) {
  	Destroy (this.gameObject);
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  
  	print ("destroyed by wall");
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("orangetower")) {
  	
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("redroad")) {
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  	
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("yellowroad")) {
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  	
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("yellowrheart")) {
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  	
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("orangetower")) {
  
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("blueplant")) {
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  	
  }
  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("greenplant")) {

  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  }

  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("Player")) {
  	
  	Destroy (other.gameObject);
  }

  else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("blueplant")) {

  	Destroy (this.gameObject);
  	Instantiate (Resources.Load ("dark") as GameObject, threeUp.position, Quaternion.identity);
  	print ("destroyed by blueplant");


  	
  }

    }

2

Well, Its not supposed to happen, maybe if you just use "if" that wont happen, because Collider will never have more than one value at a time.
The scond option(and the best one in my opinion is to use switch.

switch (other.gameObject.tag)
{
         case "whitewall":    
             DoSomethingHere;
         break;
         case "orangetower": 
             DoSomethingHere;
         break;
         case "redroad":
             DoSomethingHere;
         break;
         case "yellowroad":   
             DoSomethingHere;
         break;
}

I really hope I helped you!