Speed Gate

[Lemo76]

So I’ve got this script applied to a trigger gate for when the player (being a trigger) passes the gate, the player flings across to the target:

var target : Transform; //a null point where the Player goes to

var speed : float; //how fast

var hitgate : boolean; //if the player has hit that gate

var Player : GameObject; //The Main Player

function Start () {

hitgate = false;

}

function OnTriggerEnter () {

hitgate = true;

}

function Update () {

var step = speed * Time.deltaTime;

if (hitgate==true) {

//Move Player Sequence

Player.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target.position, step);

}

}

Now the weird part is when the player touches the gate, it gets stuck in the gate position and stays. If I change the speed to 1000, the player is rapidly (at a very fast rate) flung to the target and back and to and back constantly. What is going wrong? Have I got some sort of loop thing in the script? How do fix this?

[Chronos-L]

You have 2 problems:

1. hitgate value

hitgate is never set back to false at all, so you will run the MoveToward() in every Update() once the hitgate = true

2. Logic error

//Incorrect
// That's why your player are stuck because transform.position (the gate)
// and target.position (the landing zone) never changes
Player.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target.position, step);

//Correct
Player.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Player.transform.position, target.position, step);

Fixing these 2 should solve your problem.