Creating a new vector3

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1

So, i’m having a object instantiated that if collided with will teleport you. To find the player position and define it i use the following code

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class BlackHole : MonoBehaviour {

public float Player;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
    Player = GameObject.Find("Player").transform.position.y;
}

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

}

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col) 
{
    if (col.gameObject.tag == "Player") 
    {
     
    }

}

}

But when i try and set a new vector in the trigger i get an error i cannot convert a float to vector3.

3

“Cannot convert a float to vector3” means that you are trying to affect a float to a vector3.
You are doing something like :

Vector3 position = myFloat;

I am not sure what you are trying to do but :

// This is the position you want to give to your player if it collides with your blackhole
public Vector3 teleportPosition;

 //This is the collision method of the blackhole script
 void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col) 
 {
     // If the tag is player, col is the collider of the player
     if (col.gameObject.tag == "Player") 
     {
           // So we give to the player the public position set above
          col.transform.position = teleportPosition;
     }
 }
2

You can use the “col” as the player, since you check if it’s the player anyway. I’d also recommend not storing Player as a float, either use a GameObject or a Transform. Or better yet, just remove it completely.

In the OnTriggerEnter2D function, you can do something like this:

col.transform.position = new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0f);

or

col.transform.position.Set(0f, 0f, 0f);

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