Can't teleport my Gaia player

[aldaluin]

Hi,

I'm using a stock gaia first person controller, with an added script to change position and rotation in Start(), so I can have a random spawn point.  Unity 2020.3.37f1 and Gaia Pro 3.3.0-c5.  When I start the scene, the player immediately snaps back to the position set in the inspector.  Sometimes I can see a frame or so where I want him, so I know my (pretty simple) code is working.  Moving the relocate to a coroutine and having it wait a second or two doesn't help.  

Thanks.

[Bryan]

The stock player is just the standard assets mixed with some things that Gaia runtime elements needs. 
I would say that the script itself is not done correctly. I would check that custom script. 
 

[aldaluin]

On the one hand, I've missed the obvious before.  On the other hand, it's kind of hard to screw up "source.position = destination.position;".  Guess its time to trace some controller code. 

 

[Peter]

Hi @aldaluin, the problem is that the FPS controller uses additional components like a character controller and a rigidbody, the logic / simulation in those components does not know about the rapid position change and therefore continue the simulation with the player in its original spot. This thread discusses this issue:

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1587400/first-person-player-teleportation.html

I did try to reproduce the issue, and the following worked for me:

 

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityStandardAssets.Characters.FirstPerson;

public class MovePlayer : MonoBehaviour
{

    public Vector3 destination;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(TeleportCharacter(destination));
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    public IEnumerator TeleportCharacter(Vector3 newLoc)
    {
        GetComponent<FirstPersonController>().enabled = false;
        transform.position = newLoc;
        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
        GetComponent<FirstPersonController>().enabled = true;
    }

}

 

[aldaluin]

Thanks @Peter.  Once I put it on the FPSController instead of the Gaia Player (Doh!) it worked as advertised.  Problem is, it looks just like what I was trying to do.  So I'm off to track down the differences.

 

Thanks, too, @Bryan.  I had not noticed you grabbed the standard controller instead of growing your own. 

 

[aldaluin]

I had the position change after the yield.

[Bryan]

Thank you for the update!