Collision detection, without the physics? - unity3d

I have enemies following a path in my game. Along the path I have turrets shooting at them. To get collision detection between the bullet of the turret and enemy i've added RigidBody2D, and Circle Collider 2D to the enemy, and Circle Collider 2D to the bullet.
When the bullet hits the enemy it shall not push the object, just destroy the bullet and take some of the health.
I feel Rigidbody2D is messing it up, it gives mass, drag and gravity to my enemy... but I dont need it. But it seems I do if I want to have collision detection bewteen two objects?

You need Rigidbody to detect collisions, however you are just triggering some actions (taking damage). That is why you can check isTrigger on your colliders, and then implement 'OnTriggerEnter2D' callback instead of 'OnCollisionEnter2D', which won't activate any physics.
See http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider2D.OnTriggerEnter2D.html for reference.

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In Unity 2D, how do I achieve Non-trigger collsion that doesn't "physically" move the rigidbodies?

I have a bullet game object and an enemy game object.
I want to have the ability of getting the collision point/contact, which's why I think I need the collider of the bullet to not be a trigger collider - this way, I want to have the bullet bounce off the enemy. At times, the bullet will need to bounce off of rectangular objects (not a problem), but I also want the bullet to bounce off of elliptic objects (the problem).
I want the bullet not to "physically" push the enemy, which is why, intuitively, I should set the bullet's collider to be a trigger collider.
When the bullet's collider is a trigger collider, I seemingly don't have a way to implement the bouncing.
But when the collider's not a trigger collider, it pushes the enemy object.
There's no code errors, but I think the code hasn't got anything to do with the problem.
I suspect the problem may have something to do with the Physics Collision Matrix.
EDIT
It seems that raycasting would be the solution to the problem, as Leoverload proposed. My problem became a different problem now, so I'll close off this thread, and open a new one.
Thanks for the help, #Leoverload ! :D
For the position of the hit it's very easy. You must have 2 colliders and 2 Rigidbody and then you can simply add a
Void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collision Coll) and inside it check for the tag : if(coll.compareTag("surface")) and inside you can get the position with collision.transform.position.
The collision matrix on the Physics menu only allows to remove Collision between certain layers, it's useful if you want the enemies not to push eachother!
If you don't want the player pushed you can change the collider to trigger, and destroy the bullet just after the collision with the same method as before with a void OnTriggerEnter2D and the compareTag. In this way it will look like it touches the enemy and explode, but it won't actually touch anything. If you want to add knockback to the player then you could do a simple AddForce based on the direction of the bullet and the work is done!
If you want to avoid the bullet to move walls you can set walls to static and it should work fine

How do I make GameObjects use physics to interact with each other using Vuforia?

I'm using Vuforia for an AR school project and am trying to make a Roll a Ball game. However, the ball keeps falling through the ground despite the fact that both the ground and the ball have colliders. How can I the ball interact with the ground?
In general you always need at least one Rigidbody in order to get collisions via the physics engine.
A Rigidbody
is the main component that enables physical behaviour for a GameObject
What you would probably use for that is a kinematic Rigidbody on your moved object.
This is a GameObject with a Collider and a kinematic Rigidbody attached (ie, the IsKinematic property of the Rigidbody is enabled). You can move a kinematic rigidbody object from a script by modifying its Transform Component
but it will not respond to collisions and forces like a non-kinematic rigidbody. Kinematic rigidbodies should be used for colliders that can be moved or disabled/enabled occasionally but that should otherwise behave like static colliders. An example of this is a sliding door that should normally act as an immovable physical obstacle but can be opened when necessary. Unlike a static collider, a moving kinematic rigidbody will apply friction to other objects and will “wake up” other rigidbodies when they make contact.
Even when immobile, kinematic rigidbody colliders have different behavior to static colliders. For example, if the collider is set to as a trigger then you also need to add a rigidbody to it in order to receive trigger events in your script. If you don’t want the trigger to fall under gravity or otherwise be affected by physics then you can set the IsKinematic property on its rigidbody.
For detailed information also refer to Unity Manual - Colliders and in particular the sections Collider Interactions and Collision action matrix

Ignore collision in specific circumstances while still using it as a trigger

I am making a 2D platformer type of game. In this platformer there are both the player and "enemies". The problem arises because: I need both enemies and players to collide with the ground so they don't fall through it. I need to detect when a player collides with an enemy so i can register damage. I need the player to be able to walk through an enemy. Having colliders on the feet is not an option because the player may interact with it. What is the best way to approach this kind of specific collision detection?
You can use the Layer Collision Matrix (Edit -> ProjectSettings -> Physics2D) to define exactly which layers can collide with which other layers.
So I would simply use two colliders on the player:
one is not a trigger so it can collide with the ground. Put this on a layer playerGround which collides with the ground layer.
the other one is a trigger and can collide with the enemy layer. Name it e.g. playerEnemy or something.
Since each GameObject can only have one layer your colliders would have to sit on different objects e.g. like
player (Rigidbody2D)
|--GroundCollider(layer: playerGround)
|--EnemyCollider(layer:playerEnemy, isTrigger)
The enemy layer can collide with both the ground and the playerEnemy.
This way both can walk on the ground. Player can walk through enemies but you can use OnTriggerEnter to detect the collisions with enemies.

Preventing collider from glitching through terrain

I'm using a terrain in Unity 2019.2.1f1 and a custom mesh of a cave with a mesh collider.
My character that has a Capsule Collider way bigger than the entry of the cave should not be able to enter in. But due to the roundness of both colliders, he can come into force in the cave, glitching through the terrain collider.
I think it's velocity is not excessive, I'm moving the character with rb.MovePosition() in the FixedUpdate(), and I set its rigidbody collision detection to Continuous speculative (tried all the "continuous" modes)
In the animation below, you can see the mesh of the cave and the capsule collider around the character.
How can I prevent this from happening? How can I say to Unity: "I want the colliders to be rock solid and not marshmallow"?
Colliders in Unity are rock-solid. They are incapable of any kind of soft physics, and the only moment they will warp through each other is when you force them to.
Here, you are setting the rigidBody position by force, into an impossible location. The game tries its best to fit your rigidBody despite the lack of room.
You can
Only use forces, and velocities. You can simply set the velocity to the direction of your choosing, and set it to 0 when you stop moving, or use AddForce, which is basically the same thing.
Keep using MovePosition, but use a SphereCast or CapsuleCast to check if you have enough room to move first.

How to move an object without going through colliders

I'm using Unity and i am doing a pong game. I would like to be able to move the paddles with the mouse key. I have tried just moving their position but that of course will simply "teleport" them through the colliders along the edge of the playing field. I tried using addForce() and making the rigidbody fixed in the x position, however, what happens is when the ball hits the paddle, it pushes it and the paddle snaps back. All of the ball's energy is lost (there is gravity in my game). How can i move this box collider but not let it over lap other box colliders while moving? Thanks!!!
Your paddle should be a kinematic (IsKinematic parameter) rigidbody (attached RigidBody2D) collider while the edges should just be a static collider. But, you should control the limits/edges of paddle movement within your script.
If you do things this way, your ball will naturally bounce of the edges and off your paddle. If, however, you want the ball to pass through the edges but notify you of doing so (e.g. lose condition), you should make the edges a static trigger collider (IsTrigger parameter).
Here's a detailed list with all interactions between different types of colliders: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CollidersOverview.html. The messages generated are passed via 2 different functions: OnTriggerEnter2D and OnCollisionEnter2D.