OnTrigger event not working

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I have a player with a rigidBody and collision component attached and another entity with just a collision component (a trigger box).
When the player enters the trigger box i want something to happen, however the onTriggerEnter does not seem to register.
On my player I have:

Player_interaction.prototype.initialize = function() {
 this.entity.collision.on('triggerenter', this.onTriggerEnter, this);
}

Player_interaction.prototype.onTriggerEnter = function (result) {
    console.log("TRIGGERED WITH "+result.other.name); //never fires
}

I’m expecting this to fire whenever my rigidbody player walks into ANY entity with a collision component but nothing happens. Whats wrong here?

2

Hi @Grimmy,

Can you try listening for the trigger event on the rigidbody component of the player entity? Like this:

this.entity.rigidbody.on('triggerenter', this.onTriggerEnter, this);
3

That works perfectly. Thanks!

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If you look at the collision component documentation: CollisionComponent | PlayCanvas API Reference

There’s a table that shows the events and what components that they are fired on

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So you can see here that triggerenter is either fired on the trigger volume or the other rigidbody.

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