Accessing parent game object and storing as a variable

I'm trying to get an object's animation to play if a box collider trigger, which is the child of said object, gets hit by the player. Try as I might, I can't successfully assign the parent object to my variable without using GameObject.Find, which I don't want to use. I've been trying to use transform.parent.gameObject, but my console just keeps telling me that the variable is unassigned.

Code (csharp):

1. function OnTriggerEnter (collider : Collider)
2. {
3.     var treasureChest : GameObject = transform.parent.gamObject;
4.     treasureChest.animation.Play();
5. }

Here's my code.

The objects in question are a treasure chest (the parent) with an animation which I want to play, and a child box collider, to which this trigger script is attached.

 

gamObject != gameObject

 

hi, you can use the collider children

in this method(c#):

Code (csharp):

1.  GameObject sample = obj.collider.gameObject.transform.parent.parent.gameObject

Debug name:

Code (csharp):

1. Debug.Log("GameObject Parent: "+ sample.name);

in Java, i think so:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. function OnTriggerEnter (collider : Collider)
3.  
4. {
5.  
6.     var treasureChest : GameObject =  collider.collider.gameObject.transform.parent.parent.gameObject;
7.  
8.     treasureChest.animation.Play();
9.  
10. }
11.  

 

Why do you have two GameObject parented to each other?

 

Sounds like exactly what you would want to do , so that the trigger volume moves with the chest object.

 

I ... whu ...

Argh. Thank you for your patience.

 

Why is the trigger volume (component) not on the chest GameObject?