OnCollisionEnter Vs. OnTriggerEnter — When to use them?

George Asiedu
Aug 27, 2022

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Adding to the physics in unity topic we have two methods we can call that effect our game objects. In my previous example i used OnTriggerEnter

Which activated the destroy game object instruction. this works because both objects have colliders components attached.

in the unity documentation is it explained like:

Both GameObjects must contain a Collider component. One must have Collider.isTrigger enabled, and contain a Rigidbody. If both GameObjects have Collider.isTrigger enabled, no collision happens. The same applies when both GameObjects do not have a Rigidbody component.

the other OnCollisionEnter can be used when collision events are only sent if one of the colliders also has a non-kinematic rigidbody attached. For example if we wanted to trigger a finishing line to trigger the end of a race. Gameobjects can pass through each other and an event can take place.

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