sphere collider animation

Hi, I have a cog style object which a player jumps on top of with a character

The cog has a sphere collider attached which rotates 360 degrees.

What i want is, if the player jumps on the cog the motion of the character moves with the cog so if the cog turns right the character moves right with it until the player falls off it. At the moment what is happening, is that the character lands on the sphere collider but the player doesnt move with the animation, i have animate physics on which i thought was the option i needed but doesnt work. All that happens is, the character slides of the sphere collider but not with the animation of the cog taken into account

any ideas?

Thanks

 

i attached my character to the cog so it moves with the cog but cause the cog has a rotating animation on it, it applied the rotation to the character, so it kinda works but i dont want it to rotate the character, only to move it.

 

Is the cog animated with physics, or just a regular keyframe animation?

Idk if this is a good solution or not, but thought I'd try to help.
You could put box colliders around the sphere collider, attached to the sphere collider. And then the player character could be parented to the box collider he jumps onto. Since the box collider is not 'rotating' this might overcome the issue of the character inheriting the sphere colliders rotation.

Another option could be to create a small empty game object at the center of the cog. Parent the empty game object to the cog, then when the character jumps onto the cog parent the character to the empty game object. The character will rotate with the empty game object, but since it is located at the center of the cog, the rotation of the character will match the rotation of the cog animation.

Alternately consider looking into 2D effectors (surface or platform) or physics materials - although I have little experience with these - so unsure if they would be helpful or not.