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January 15, 2014

Randomly teleport around Tuscany

I created this Teleport.cs script which will jump your player to random locations around the terrain in Tuscany (or any terrain) by pressing R1 bumper on XBox Controller or press Backslash key.

Pretty simple, but I thought I'd share.

To use: Simply drag it onto the OVRPlayerController!
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    molton
    Up and Coming
    January 17, 2014
    I haven't tried to do anything random so far in my project but this seems like a great approach. Thanks for sharing. :)

    What's with the adding mesh coliders part? Is the whole terrain in the tuscany demo not colidered up?
    petereptAuthor
    Up and Coming
    January 18, 2014
    Hi,

    Tuscany had Colliders on the terrain, but not on the ocean. I added the collider to that (and the villages) so that when raycasting downwards to get the correct placement height on the ground it makes sure the player isn't placed under the water or inside a fake house.

    Is there a better way to detect a ray going through a game object (like the ocean) without a collider?
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    bdeschryver
    Up and Coming
    February 18, 2014
    Hey Peterrept,

    nice script which is similar to one I created.
    I am also trying to not only move the player but also set a predefined orientation so that after teleport, it is looking in a set direction.
    Did you look into that ? I can't manage to set the OVRPlayerController rotation or let's say it does not affect the camera direction...
    DaveA
    Up and Coming
    February 19, 2014
    "bdeschryver" wrote:
    Hey Peterrept,

    nice script which is similar to one I created.
    I am also trying to not only move the player but also set a predefined orientation so that after teleport, it is looking in a set direction.
    Did you look into that ? I can't manage to set the OVRPlayerController rotation or let's say it does not affect the camera direction...


    I've done this too. You can set the orientation, use oculus.SetYRotation(target.transform.eulerAngles.y); where oculus is the OVRCameraController component and target is the object you put into the scene to mark the teleportation target.
    bdeschryver
    Up and Coming
    February 19, 2014
    Hey DaveA,

    I have a script attached to the OVRPlayerController and in there I wrote this:

    transform.FindChild ("OVRCameraController").SendMessage ("SetYRotation",(balise.transform.eulerAngles.y));

    where "balise" is the object I would like to move to and set orientaztion from.

    But it does not work.
    Can you check it that matches your description in the post above ?
    What could be wrong ?
    DaveA
    Up and Coming
    February 19, 2014
    That's the basic idea, but I don't see the context you call this in. It should happen when you are teleporting to the new transform. Can you post your entire script? Or maybe I'll just post mine when I get the chance.
    DaveA
    Up and Coming
    February 20, 2014
    Well looking at my old code, it was just using the OVRCameraController, and the OVRPlayerController will override the rotation. So you have to modify OVRPlayerController to add this:

    	public void SetYRotation (float y)
    	{
    		YRotation = y;
    	}


    Then use this script:

    // Teleport.cs by DaveA

    // Drop this on an OVRPlayerController, or not. If not, drag the OVRPlayerController onto this in the Inspector. Or not.
    // Place 'target' transforms in scene where you want to appear. Put them into 'targets' array.
    // Hitting the 'activate key' will jump you there, with target rotation too.
    using UnityEngine;
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    public class Teleport : MonoBehaviour
    {
    	public KeyCode activateKey = KeyCode.T;
    	public Transform[] targets;
    	public Transform player;
    	public int curTarget = 0;
    	public OVRPlayerController ovrPlayer;

    	void Start ()
    	{
    		if (ovrPlayer == null)
    			ovrPlayer = GetComponent<OVRPlayerController>();
    		if (ovrPlayer == null)
    			ovrPlayer = Object.FindObjectOfType<OVRPlayerController>();
    	}
    	
    	void Update ()
    	{
    		if (Input.GetKeyDown(activateKey))
    		{
    			player.position = targets[curTarget].position;
    			ovrPlayer.SetYRotation (targets[curTarget].eulerAngles.y -90f);
    			curTarget = ++curTarget % targets.Length;
    		}
    	
    	}
    }
    bcoyle
    Up and Coming
    September 24, 2014
    Oh this looks good. I need to try this out. Love the idea of placing the player in curated positions - yet still allowing them to explore a bit from outside that position, before teleporting them to another location.
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    bcoyle
    Up and Coming
    September 29, 2014
    "DaveA" wrote:
    Well looking at my old code, it was just using the OVRCameraController, and the OVRPlayerController will override the rotation. So you have to modify OVRPlayerController to add this:

    	public void SetYRotation (float y)
    	{
    		YRotation = y;
    	}


    Then use this script:

    // Teleport.cs by DaveA

    // Drop this on an OVRPlayerController, or not. If not, drag the OVRPlayerController onto this in the Inspector. Or not.
    // Place 'target' transforms in scene where you want to appear. Put them into 'targets' array.
    // Hitting the 'activate key' will jump you there, with target rotation too.
    using UnityEngine;
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    public class Teleport : MonoBehaviour
    {
    	public KeyCode activateKey = KeyCode.T;
    	public Transform[] targets;
    	public Transform player;
    	public int curTarget = 0;
    	public OVRPlayerController ovrPlayer;

    	void Start ()
    	{
    		if (ovrPlayer == null)
    			ovrPlayer = GetComponent<OVRPlayerController>();
    		if (ovrPlayer == null)
    			ovrPlayer = Object.FindObjectOfType<OVRPlayerController>();
    	}
    	
    	void Update ()
    	{
    		if (Input.GetKeyDown(activateKey))
    		{
    			player.position = targets[curTarget].position;
    			ovrPlayer.SetYRotation (targets[curTarget].eulerAngles.y -90f);
    			curTarget = ++curTarget % targets.Length;
    		}
    	
    	}
    }


    Hey DaveA, extremely cool script! Only hurdle I had was that after attaching the script to the OVRPlayerController, I had to drag the nested OVRCameraController into the 'Player' slot of the script. Then everything worked perfectly. Although I think I had a small rotation issue. The player controller was zeroed out for rotation, as were the empty game objects being used as teleport locations, but the player would teleport to each position, facing 90 degrees to the right of the original orientation. Easily corrected by rotating the position points 90 degrees.

    This is a great way to allow someone to explore a space, but also have the option of teleporting to curated positions, to avoid movement & motion sickness.

    Thanks
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    bcoyle
    Up and Coming
    October 2, 2014
    hmm. I'm seeing issue with where the players eye height has changed after teleporting, and also strange collision issues
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