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Tsukasa
Tsukasa

Reputation: 6552

Unity3D get CharacterController to run back to it's starting location

I'm trying to move my enemy mob back to it's starting location but it's going somewhere no even remotely close to it's starting position. Here is what I have

private Vector3 startingPosition;

void Start () 
{
    startingPosition = transform.TransformPoint(Vector3.zero);
}

In the update position I do some checks to make sure when we lose chase range for the mob to run back to it's starting location with this. Well I'm trying to get it to run back to it's starting location

void Return2Location()
{
    Debug.Log("Start" + startingPosition);
    Debug.Log("Current " + transform.position);

    if (transform.position != startingPosition)
    {
       Debug.Log("returning");
       controller.Move(startingPosition);
       animation.CrossFade(runClip.name);
    }
}

If i set transform.position to startingPosition it's placed back to it's original location.

Update

Tried this also

Transform newLocation = new GameObject().transform;
newLocation.position = startingPosition;
newLocation.rotation = startingRotationPosition;
controller.SimpleMove(newLocation.forward * speed);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 276

Answers (1)

Bart
Bart

Reputation: 20028

The problem there seems to be your use of Move(). Move takes a (scaled) direction as an argument. Not a position it needs to go to. So if you want to move it towards your starting position, you'll have to do something like the following instead:

Vector3 direction = startingPosition - Transform.position;
direction.Normalize(); //Make sure to have a pure "unit" direction 
controller.Move(direction * speed * Time.deltaTime);

That should take you in the right direction at your desired speed. Of course you'll have to make sure you don't overshoot your target, but you get the idea.

Upvotes: 1

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