Question by vulgarknight · Mar 08, 2013 at 02:11 AM · transform position local

transform.position uses wrong position

I am working on a mechanic in my game to let my character climb walls. The character approaches the wall and presses e to "grab" it. The player's position is locked onto an invisible box when climbing, but if i use a box that is rotated, the character gets locked into the wrong position because it is rotated. How can I apply my code to allow for the player to start climbing with a wall rotated in any direction?

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robertbu · Mar 08, 2013 at 02:18 AM 0

is the "invisible box" a box collider or something else? Can't you just rotate the box to match the rotation of the wall? $$anonymous$$ore info please.

vulgarknight · Mar 08, 2013 at 04:14 AM 0

Sorry. Ok: The wall that you can climb is just a cube with a collider. I made an invisible cube with a collider that is tagged as climbWallActivator that gets recognized with a raycast from the center of the camera (the game is all first person) in front of this wall, I have another invisible cube that has no collider that is used as the climbWallPosition, the reference that positions my character when climbing is initiated. The problem is that the climbWallPosition has to be as wide as the climbable surface so that the character can start climbing from anywhere. $$anonymous$$eep in $$anonymous$$d that this is in a prototyping stag, so most of my problems are really just me foreseeing issues when I begin level design. I am focusing on modularity so I can design the rest of my game with less hitches.

robertbu · Mar 08, 2013 at 04:35 AM 0

What you doing sounds fine. So were does the problem come in? If it is the position, of the "climbWallPosition" must be at same place the climber climber? If so, can't you adjust it using the raycast data?

Professor Snake · Mar 08, 2013 at 04:52 AM 0

It would be lovely to be able to take a look at your code for this.

vulgarknight · Mar 08, 2013 at 05:21 AM 0

Here's some code, I was going to post it in the last comment, but I had to change machines.

$$anonymous$$ouse look script that receives the tag and assigns the z variable:

 else if (centerHit.collider.tag == "climbWall"){
     onClimbWall = true;
     onDoor = false;
     onLedgeGrab = false;
     climbBox = selectedObject.transform.Find("climbBox");
     climbBoxZ = climbBox.transform.position.z;
             }

$$anonymous$$ovement script that receives the z position and moves the player accordingly:

 if (isClimbing) {
             
     climbBoxZ = cameraObject.GetComponent<mouseLook>().climbBoxZ;
 grounded = false;
             
     climbing$$anonymous$$ovement = new Vector2 (rigidbody.velocity.x, rigidbody.velocity.y);
             
     if (climbing$$anonymous$$ovement.magnitude > maxClimbSpeed) {
                 climbing$$anonymous$$ovement.Normalize();
                 climbing$$anonymous$$ovement *= maxClimbSpeed;
             }
             
             rigidbody.velocity = new Vector3(climbing$$anonymous$$ovement.x, climbing$$anonymous$$ovement.y, rigidbody.velocity.z);
             
             transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, climbBoxZ);
             rigidbody.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionZ;

Sorry if my paste didn't format right, I can't really tell if the "code" button is on.

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