My VR Planetary Gravity Script wont work

Hello everyone,
I’m trying to make a planetary gravity system for a VR Player so I can’t use rigidbodies (on the player) so I made my own but this caused a problem with my planetary gravity where it automatically moves the player to the top of a planet even though it’s supposed to just let the player go where ever they want on the planet.

Gravity Ctrl (this goes on the player):

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class GravityCtrl : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float rotationSpeed = 20f;

    [HideInInspector]
    public GravityOrbit gravity;
    private PlayerRigidbodyVR rb;

    void Awake()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<PlayerRigidbodyVR>();
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if(gravity)
        {
            Vector3 gravityUp = Vector3.zero;
            gravityUp = (transform.position - gravity.transform.position).normalized;

            Vector3 localUp = transform.up;
            Quaternion targetRot = Quaternion.FromToRotation(localUp, gravityUp) * transform.rotation;

            transform.rotation = targetRot;
            //transform.up = Vector3.Lerp(transform.up, gravityUp, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            rb.AddForceVR((-gravityUp * gravity.gravity) * rb.mass);
            //rb.AddForceRequireGndVR((-gravityUp * gravity.gravity) * rb.mass, false);
        }
    }
}

Gravity Orbit (this goes on a planet):

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class GravityOrbit : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float gravity = 2;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if(other.GetComponent<GravityCtrl>())
        {
            other.GetComponent<GravityCtrl>().gravity = GetComponent<GravityOrbit>();
        }
    }
}

And of course the AddForceVR in my PlayerRigidbodyVR script:

public void AddForceVR(Vector3 force)
    {
        character.Move(Vector3.right * force.x * Time.deltaTime);
        character.Move(Vector3.up * force.y * Time.deltaTime);
        character.Move(Vector3.forward * force.z * Time.deltaTime);
    }

Thanks in advance!

Welcome to debugging! Here is how to figure out what is happening, which is an obvious prerequisite to fixing.

You must find a way to get the information you need in order to reason about what the problem is.

What is often happening in these cases is one of the following:

  • the code you think is executing is not actually executing at all
  • the code is executing far EARLIER or LATER than you think
  • the code is executing far LESS OFTEN than you think
  • the code is executing far MORE OFTEN than you think
  • the code is executing on another GameObject than you think it is
  • you’re getting an error or warning and you haven’t noticed it in the console window

To help gain more insight into your problem, I recommend liberally sprinkling Debug.Log() statements through your code to display information in realtime.

Doing this should help you answer these types of questions:

  • is this code even running? which parts are running? how often does it run? what order does it run in?
  • what are the values of the variables involved? Are they initialized? Are the values reasonable?
  • are you meeting ALL the requirements to receive callbacks such as triggers / colliders (review the documentation)

Knowing this information will help you reason about the behavior you are seeing.

You can also supply a second argument to Debug.Log() and when you click the message, it will highlight the object in scene, such as Debug.Log("Problem!",this);

If your problem would benefit from in-scene or in-game visualization, Debug.DrawRay() or Debug.DrawLine() can help you visualize things like rays (used in raycasting) or distances.

You can also call Debug.Break() to pause the Editor when certain interesting pieces of code run, and then study the scene manually, looking for all the parts, where they are, what scripts are on them, etc.

You can also call GameObject.CreatePrimitive() to emplace debug-marker-ish objects in the scene at runtime.

You could also just display various important quantities in UI Text elements to watch them change as you play the game.

If you are running a mobile device you can also view the console output. Google for how on your particular mobile target, such as this answer or iOS: How To - Capturing Device Logs on iOS or this answer for Android: How To - Capturing Device Logs on Android

Another useful approach is to temporarily strip out everything besides what is necessary to prove your issue. This can simplify and isolate compounding effects of other items in your scene or prefab.

Here’s an example of putting in a laser-focused Debug.Log() and how that can save you a TON of time wallowing around speculating what might be going wrong:

When in doubt, print it out!™

Note: the print() function is an alias for Debug.Log() provided by the MonoBehaviour class.

I realized I could use a rigidbody and just Freeze all the rotations sorry