Character takes damage randomly

[zfalconer]

After implementing death, I discovered that the character randomly takes damage. This may be due to the sword being too close to the character, or the fact that the damage script doesn't take its owner into account.

[zfalconer]

have updated project to be a shooter instead of a sword fighting game (full intention on making it both later in development), this fixes the problem as long as character doesn't take a stray ricochet shot

[CaliberMengsk]

I would make a layer or tag that the damage dealing script can check to see if it's part of. This would be wanted anyway if you don't want team damage. (assuming multiplayer still, though local multiplayer may be harder with fps, unless you do splitscreen.)

[CaliberMengsk]

You could also add an ignore collision with the object holding it in the start function.
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

It's quite a useful thing to know about when doing team based systems (I find it most useful with the 2d version of it, cause it can allow enemy bullets to go through other enemies and ally bullets to go through players, but still cause damage to the opposite. Not quite as useful in 3d since you'd want the bullet to stop either way.)