Need help with C# in Unity

EdwardsNT

Working on creating an item that I am able to collect in my level. Right now, I have my item laid out in the level, I have a box collider on a cube with no mesh rendering to trigger a point light that will highlight the item when the player is within range of the item. I created an item script that will make a noise, display some text, and delete the prefab object once the item is collected, but when I walk into the item, none of that happens. The point light highlights the item, but I do not collect it, nor does it make a noise.

I took a picture of my script so maybe someone could see where I am wrong?

TipsyMonk

Did you set the tag of your player game object to "Player"? Usually, if you don't get any error messages, it's a miscommunication with your tags.

EdwardsNT

Yes I did, sorry I forgot to add in that my player is set to "Player".
I triple checked this when I first ran into the error to make sure that I had that set.

TipsyMonk

Box Collider is set to Trigger?

EdwardsNT

Indeed it is!
I can provide more pictures of the whole thing if you need them!

TipsyMonk

Yeah, if you don't mind.

EdwardsNT

Okay, more screenshots have been added into original post!

TipsyMonk

Are you just trying to destroy the entire game object? If so, replace the last line with this:

Destroy (gameObject);

Doing this, however, may cut your audio short. So you'll need to delay the destroy until the audio is finished playing.

EdwardsNT

Okay, just did that and still having the same issue. The item is not being deleted.

TipsyMonk

Hmm. Go to the Project panel and select the Item script. You should see it's code previewed in the Inspector. Does your code match what you've written? Sometimes Unity doesn't associate the latest changes to your script. Also, make sure you saved your script in Monodevelop.

EdwardsNT

Checked out the item script, it does match the code entered inside mono develop.

TipsyMonk

Are you getting any errors in the console?

EdwardsNT

I am not getting any errors in the console.

TipsyMonk

Can you post an image of your hierarchy?

EdwardsNT

Sure thing!

TipsyMonk

The image appears broken.

EdwardsNT

Yeah I was seeing that, if I right click on the image and open image in new tab, it worked, but it wouldnt work aside from that. Not sure why. Give me just a moment!

There we go!

TipsyMonk

Can you expand the ItemToCollect object in the hierarchy? Also, which item is the script on?

EdwardsNT

The script is on the item labeled item. I will upload a few screenshots to see!

TipsyMonk

I'm doing a quick test. I'll back in a minute.

EdwardsNT

Okay! Sounds good!

Thank you for the help by the way, I really appreciate it!

TipsyMonk

Okay. I am totally stumped on this one. Can you pull the item away from the wall and try again. Sometimes other colliders, like the wall, can keep the player game object from colliding with other game objects if they are too close.

Also try shutting down Unity and restarting. It's really weird that you don't have any errors and still not able to interact with the item at all.

EdwardsNT

So I moved the item away from the wall and it worked!
I had no idea that other colliders can interfere with that if they aren't in said object.

TipsyMonk

Awesome! Thought I was losing it. The colliders aren't interfering with one another, the player game object's collider couldn't touch the collider of the item. You should just make the collider of the item's larger. Glad you figured this out.

EdwardsNT

I don't think I would have figured it out without your help! Thank you very much!