Simple collision detection in Unity 2D

Question

I realise other posts exist with this topic yet none have gone into enough detail for me. I am attempting to create a 2D game in Unity using C# as my scripting language.

Basically I have two objects, player and bomb. Both were created simply by dragging the respective PNG to the stage.

I have set up touch controls to move player left and right; gravity of any kind is not needed as I only require it to move x units when I tap either the left or right side of the screen. This movement is stored in a script called playerController.cs and works just fine.

I also have a variable health = 3 for player, which is stored in healthScript.cs.

I am now at a point where I am stuck. I would like it so that when player collides with bomb, health decreases by one and the bomb object is destroyed. So what I tried doing is using a new script called playerPhysics.cs, I added the following:

void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D coll){
        if(coll.gameObject.name=="bomb")
        {
            GameObject.Destroy("bomb");
            healthScript.health -= 1;
        }
}

While I'm fairly sure I don't know the proper way to reference a variable in another script and that's why the health didn't decrease when I collided, bomb never disappeared from the stage so I'm thinking there's also a problem with my collision.

Initially, I had simply attached playerPhysics.cs to player. After searching around though, it appeared as though player also needed a rigidBody attached to it, so I did that. Still no luck. I tried using a circleCollider (player is a circle), using a rigidBody2D, and using all manner of colliders on one and/or both of the objects. If you could please explain what colliders (if any) should be attached to which objects and whether I need to change my script(s), that would be much more helpful than pointing me to one of the generic documentation examples I've already read. Also, if it would be simple to fix the health thing not working that would be an added bonus but not exactly the focus of this question.

Bear in mind that this game is 2D; I'm not sure if that changes anything.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I did the following to achieve results:

Added a Rigidbody2D to the player (deactivate Gravity). Added a 2D-Collider to the bomb. Added control and health script (basic stuff, just position updates). My health is just a public variable. Used the following code in playerPhysics.cs:

void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D coll)
{
    if (coll.gameObject.name == "bomb")
    {
        Destroy(coll.gameObject);
        this.GetComponent<healthScript>().health -= 1;
    }
}

Note the way I fetched the HealthScript. If you do this on a regular basis, you may want to store this in a private Variable of type healthScript.

private healthScript hs = this.GetComponent<healthScript>();

//...usage in methods
hs.health = 9001;