How can I change player position and save direction?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m going to jump my player to a new position in the level when I pause the game, which I will use as the pause screen/room, and I want to store their current position and direction as I press pause so when I resume the game they will be in the same place and facing the same way they were when I pressed pause, even if I move and turn around while in the pause screen/area.

So how do I store and set the player’s direction properly?

I’ve tried using the following when the pause button is pressed down:

if (!gamePaused)
            {
                playerStoredPosition = player.transform.position; // Stores the position of player in the level
                playerStoredDirection = player.transform.forward; // Stores the forward direction of player in the level

                player.transform.position = playerPausePosition; // Jumps player to pause position (set in Start)
                player.transform.forward = playerPauseDirection; // Turns player to pause direction (set in Start)

                gamePaused = true;
            }
            else
            {
                player.transform.position = playerStoredPosition; // Returns player to stored position
                player.transform.forward = playerStoredDirection; // Returns player to stored direction

                gamePaused = false;
            }

But it’s not working.

The storing of the position works fine, but when I resume the game the direction the player is facing is wherever I’ve turned when in the pause room rather than where I was facing when I actually pressed pause.

Any ideas how to get this to work properly?

2

You can try passing the game with

Time.timeScale = 0;

This will solve your problem as you do not need to store the player position and directions and whenever you need to unpause just set it to 1 again the game will resume from the last paused frame.

For more details on what is Time.timeScale and how to use it see here.

3

You say you can store position but not rotation? Create a quaternion variable in your script, then store the players rotation in the quaternion. Example

private Quaternion myRotation;
 
void SomeFunction()
{
    //Store your rotation
    myRotation = transform.rotation;
    //Now when you need to reapply rotation do this.
    transform.rotation = myRotation;
}