Teleport a character via button pressed while in Triggerbox

Unity Engine
1

Hello! So I’m still getting used to using scripting. What I am trying to do is Teleport the player by Having a trigger box that once the player enters pressing ‘e’ will set the player’s position the same as the target box. Unfortunately it’s not teleporting my player. I placed the Debug logs to let me know when things are registering. The player does not have a rigidbody. I have tried a lot of different methods but even with both entering the triggerbox and the button press being registered, still no teleport happening. I have a feeling is something real simple but I have spent much longer than I have wanted trying to solve this on my own.

public class Teleport : MonoBehaviour
{

public Transform Player;
public Transform Target;

void Start()
{

}

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
  Debug.Log("Entered");

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
{
  Debug.Log("Pressed");
  Player.transform.position = Target.transform.position;
}
}
}
2

Your if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) is located in the OnTriggerEnter method. You’re essentially asking the player to press the E key at the exact frame that he enters this collider, which just won’t happen.

Instead of doing this, try moving your if statement in the update and creating a bool variable that lets you know if the player entered the collider. Something like this

private bool entered;

private ovid Update()
{
   if (entered && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
   {
      // Teleport?
   }
}

// Don't forget to add the OnTriggerExit to set the var back to false
private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
   entered = true;
}
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3

Worked like a charm! I figured it was placement of code. Thank you so much!