The Dragon has landed

#1 You could drop it into the custom collision for the enemy. Give each enemy an object type and do a

if (ourObject.TestObjectType(_objectType) ==  true)
{
    // Do your action or call your method here 
}

Good Luck, Viktor

#2 Hi, Victor

Thank you very much for your ideas.
Where exactly in the "custom collision" should I implement it?
Because everywhere I tried to put it in, I get a "false" return value.

#3 I think I have to go into some details with my question:

I want to "split" my actions when the drill and the other enemies die:
e.g.
- drill died? -> play an animation
- enemy1 died? -> do not play an animation
- enemy2 died? -> create another object
etc.

My problem still exists: I cannot find out, which enemy or drill died.
What could be wrong?

#4 This is in the _onEnter method of the DrillHeadKillComponent, I'm assuming this is what your using for all of your enemies. Mine only contains the code for handling collisions with a drill but you should be able to use if and else if statements as previously described to handle other enemies.

// check the angle against our angle threshold
            if ((angle <= _maxHeadKillAngle || angle >= 360 - _maxHeadKillAngle) && theirObject.Physics.VelocityY >= ourVelY)
            {
                     // add code here
                    _drillActor.TakeDamage(_takeDamageOnLand, dragon.Actor);
                    dragon.Bounce(100);
                    SceneObject.CollisionsEnabled = false;         
            }

If your problem is just that your not able to get the correct object type than you may be able to find out more by setting a breakpoint in the problem area and stepping through(F11), you can check values of local variables by using the Locals menu while debugging. But because I've never had a real problem with TestObjectType I'm not of much help other than that.
Hope you can figure it out, Viktor

#5 Hey Viktor
Thank you very much for your detailed help, I really appreciate it :-)
Though it doesn't work for me because I think that whenever I give my enemies a different object type, the OnRegister method of the DrillHeadKillComponent.cs sets it back to _enemyObjectType :

// set the object type so that the player can collide with this trigger
SceneObject.SetObjectType(PlatformerData.EnemyObjectType, true);

I solved my problem: I created additional properties in my DrillActorComponent class that I can check.
for example:

DrillActorComponent isZombieComponent = _actor.Components.FindComponent<DrillActorComponent>();

if (isZombieComponent.IsZombie)
{
      // action
}

#6 Glad you got it working. Seems like you found a fairly painless workaround. I'm happy to be of any help, and I learned some new things too.