Unity - Light and sprite collision

Question

I'm a beginner in Unity and i'm facing a little problem / question. The main purpose of my 2D game is based on the mouvment of a specific light and the player have to avoid getting inside his rays. My actual game got different type of layers :

1. Z = -5 : A front light (don't pay attention of this one)
2. Z = 0 : The main scene, where the player move and interact with collider (2D based, player is a sprite with rigidbody2d and circlecollider2d
3. Z = 1 : Some elements to avoid the light to go through and give the player a chance to hide
4. Z = 10 : The main light that the player have to avoid

My problem is the following one, i don't know how to interact a Point Light (so a 3d object) and a sprite (2D). I tried to do some "OnTriggerEnter / Stay" in the Point Light but it never trigger. I heard about "Raycast" but i prefer to ask some solution before learning this. If anyone can give me tips, it would be very good :)

Thanks !

[EDIT SOLUTION, THANKS TO Géry Arduino]

#pragma strict

public var moon : Component;

function Start () {

}

function Update () {
var radiusMoon = moon.transform.light.range;
var zMoon = moon.transform.position.z;
var zPlayer = transform.position.z;
if(zMoon - radiusMoon <= zPlayer) {
    var zDirection = transform.position.z - zMoon;
    var xDirection = transform.position.x - moon.transform.position.x;
    var yDirection = transform.position.y - moon.transform.position.y;
    var direction = Vector3(xDirection, yDirection, zDirection);
    Debug.DrawRay(moon.transform.position, direction, Color.red, 10);
    if(Physics.Raycast(moon.transform.position, direction, radiusMoon)) {
        Debug.Log("there is something between me and the object....");
    } 
    else {
        Debug.Log("i'm free");
    }
}   
}

Answer 1

Actually Lights does not contain colliders, but what you can do is add a CircleCollider2D component to a light, then track if your object collide with the collider of this light and only then trace a ray from your object (character) to the light, if the ray hits a collider before hitting the light then you know your character is in the shadow part of this light!

I am not sure you could go away with this without using raycast2D, but dont be afraid once you get a hold on it it can be very straight-forward.

For example to put on your character :

private bool inTheShadow = false;

void Update() {
    if(!inTheShadow) {
        //Replace following lines with your own magic
        Debug.Log("Too much Light!!");
    }
    else { Debug.Log("Vampire Secure Area!!"); }
}

void OnCollisionStay2D(Collision2D coll) {

    if (coll.gameObject.tag == "Light") {//is that component a light? (need to have the light tag on your light
        float distance = Vector3.distance(transform.position,coll.gameObject.transform.position);
        Vector3 rayDirection = (coll.gameObject.transform.position-transform.position).normalized;
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position,rayDirection,distance);
        if(hit.collider!=coll) { //Am i hitting the light or smthing else?
            inTheShadow = true;
        }
        else {inTheShadow = false;}
    }  
}

This is a non optimized version done quickly without unity or anything related near hand