Boundary

Checked with version: 5.1

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Difficulty: Beginner

Creating a bounding box to destroy any object that leaves the game area.

Boundary

Beginner Space Shooter tutorial

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DestroyByBoundary

Code snippet

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class DestroyByBoundary : MonoBehaviour
{
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        Destroy(other.gameObject);
    }
}
#pragma strict

function OnTriggerExit(other : Collider)
{
    Destroy(other.gameObject);
}
import UnityEngine
import System.Collections


public class DestroyByBoundary(MonoBehaviour):

    private def OnTriggerExit(other as Collider):
        Destroy(other.gameObject)
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