Why isn't my object destroying on collision?

[katiecuon]

Hello! I’m rather new to game development and I’m having trouble making an object disappear when the player touches it.

You can see the code for the script here:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class collect : MonoBehaviour {

	void Update ()
	{
		
	}

	void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
	{
		if(col.gameObject.name == "platform")
		{
			Destroy(gameObject);
			Debug.Log("collision detected!");
		}
	}
}

The object being destroyed is called “platform” because it was originally being used as a platform in-game. You can view its inspector here:

Why won’t this code work?

Thanks in advance!

[Commoble]

In your platform’s script, you’re checking if the platform is colliding with itself. You should change it to check if the platform is colliding with the player instead.

     void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
     {
         if(col.gameObject.name == "Player")
         {
             Destroy(gameObject);
             Debug.Log("collision detected!");
         }
     }