SteamVR Teleport onto moving object

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Hello community

I am trying to teleport onto moving objects using the provided SteamVR Teleport prefab, teleport areas are working fine, but I don't know where the events for Teleport are located or how to parent the Player prefab to the $$anonymous$$t object correctly using the normal vector of the teleport area? (an object could have a valid areas on the bottom).

I have a plan I intend to try, going to place a trigger at the players feet, when it $$anonymous$$ts a new object it tests to see if is a new object containing a teleport area, the sets that as its parent, then set the player rotation to match the teleport areas surface normal as UP.

Good idea? or is there already a script in the SteamVR tools?

Thanks for any advice in advance.

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So here is an update, I have been editing the stock SteamVR scripts just to figure out a quick and dirty solution:

Parenting the SteamVR Player prefab only breaks if the parent is set inactive, no crashes, it just turns off the camera. I did t$$anonymous$$s in Teleport.cs -> TeleportPlayer(), I got the teleport area's transform (inactive) and then got it's parent transform, then parented the player to that.
Player prefab can be effected by local scale of parent transform, be sure to either have a parent with 1,1,1 scale or to do the "player.trackingOriginTransform.localScale = player.trackingOriginTransform.localScale;" trick, t$$anonymous$$s seems to allow the Player prefab to maintain it's own scale (it works, don't know why).
You can set the player's rotation on the new parent by grabbing the rotation of the teleport area and setting the player.trackingOriginTransform.rotation to be the same, t$$anonymous$$s needs to be world space rotation!
Turn of the teleport arc gravity to prevent weird issues cause by the player now being stuck to walls, there is no toggle, in Teleport.cs find the teleportArc.SetArcData() method and change the gravity argument to false, it's a quick fix.
You can also fix the orientation of the target point of the teleporter in Teleport.cs in the UpdatePointer() method, I copied the orientation check from the invalid pointer. Using the same rotation on the PlayAreaPreview does work, but it also seems to spin it around the teleport marker very slowly.

T$$anonymous$$s is not my final solution, it is very hacky and needs to be cleaned up, but it does work as intended. I will update my Repository and link here later, with the hacky code. I hope t$$anonymous$$s inspires someone to do t$$anonymous$$s better than me :)

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