Unknown identifier "other"

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I tried to use other.CompareTag but just received an error saying that other is an unknown identifier? can anyone help me?

#pragma strict
var Slow = 0.5;
function Start () {

}

function Update () {
}

function OnTriggerStay(Bullet : Collider) 
{	//the "other" below this text is the one cauisng trouble it seems
if (other.CompareTag ("Bullet")) 
	{
	Time.timeScale = Slow;
	
	Time.fixedDeltaTime = 0.02 * Time.timeScale;
	}
}

function OnTriggerExit(Bullet : Collider)
{	//the "other" below this text is the one cauisng trouble it seems
if(other.CompareTag ("Bullet"))
	{
	Time.timeScale = 1;
	
	Time.fixedDeltaTime = 0.02 * Time.timeScale;
	}
}

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Please post your actual, complete code.

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i have posted the code now

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Yes of course you are getting the error cause you didn't define the variable 'other'. You defined the Collider as 'Bullet'.

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subhajit, try reading the comment i placed. it says that the other is the one causing trouble, the bullet define thingies had been there without causing trouble. but as soon as i added the "other" at the compare tag, it began causing trouble

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That's what I said. You never defined 'other'. Try following tanoshimi's answer. We both are basically saying the same thing. :)

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Replace

if(other.CompareTag ("Bullet"))

with

if(Bullet.CompareTag ("Bullet"))

sorry. that just seemed to make it not enter slow motion at all.

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That's probably because the object entering the trigger isn't tagged "Bullet". Or you don't have a non-kinematic rigidbody attached.

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what is the rigidbody supposed to be attached to?

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At least one of the game objects involved in the collision.

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well the "bullet" (actually a box that i used for testing) has a non kinematic rigid body.

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