How do you fix a teleportation point in space relative to a moving object?

weasel47Answer

Inspiring

If you're only changing the player's transform.position and not rotation, the player's rotation won't change.

New Participant

I managed to get rid of ColumGlow just by unticking the Mesh Renderer. Now Ijust need to fix the orientation of the teleport point and make teleportation line-of-sight independent. Any help is mightily appreciated.

weasel47

Inspiring

I don't know what ColumnGlow is, but....

If you have an object in the position you want the player to teleport to, all you have to do is change the player's transform.position by setting it equal to the other object's transform.position

New Participant

I will try this, but I think this is essentially how Oculus' teleport script works, and I think I'll run into the same problem. Since the player is following a ball, the player rotation after teleport is the same as the ball, which is to say essentially random. I think I need to use a Vector3 to counteract this, but I'm not entirely sure, and I'm always glacially slow at coding, but I make up for it by also being bad at it. Does using a Vector3 sound like a possible solution to you?

weasel47Answer

Inspiring

If you're only changing the player's transform.position and not rotation, the player's rotation won't change.

New Participant

I appreciate your help, but I'm having no luck so far. The script itself is very straightforward. Maybe you could tell me which line to add the transform.position? I've tried all the things I think would work, and have gotten it wrong every time. Here's the script Oculus uses for its Teleport points:

using UnityEngine;

using System.Collections;

public class TeleportPoint : MonoBehaviour {

public float dimmingSpeed = 1;

public float fullIntensity = 1;

public float lowIntensity = 0.5f;

public Transform destTransform;

private float lastLookAtTime = 0;

// Use this for initialization

void Start () {

}

public Transform GetDestTransform()

{

return destTransform;

}

// Update is called once per frame

void Update () {

float intensity = Mathf.SmoothStep(fullIntensity, lowIntensity, (Time.time - lastLookAtTime) * dimmingSpeed);

GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material.SetFloat("_Intensity", intensity);

}

public void OnLookAt()

{

lastLookAtTime = Time.time;

}

}

Simple, right? Just not for me.

weasel47

Inspiring

I'm guessing another script is calling the GetDestTransform function from this script? Over in that other script is where a change would need to be made...

New Participant

Yep. Totally correct. I found the function in another script, commented out the line dealing with rotation, and now I'm 90% of the way to having it working to my satisfaction. Thanks so much! You're a hero!