Input not working correct

[Andy90]

Hello  im not 100% sure if its a bug but it feels like it. I try to change the position for my player. But however he gets teleported back to the old position. I use a slight modifyed version of the FPS Controls. 

How to reproduce:
Change the update function with the following code and press enter, wich sets the player to 0,0,0 and press any movement key after the position change. 
 

void FirstPersonControls::Update()
{
	Vec3 movement;
	float jump = 0;
	bool crouch = false;
	auto entity = GetEntity();
	auto window = ActiveWindow();
	if (window)
	{
		if (!freelookstarted)
		{
			freelookstarted = true;
			freelookrotation = entity->GetRotation(true);
			freelookmousepos = window->GetMouseAxis();
		}
		auto newmousepos = window->GetMouseAxis();
		lookchange.x = lookchange.x * mousesmoothing + (newmousepos.y - freelookmousepos.y) * 100.0f * mouselookspeed * (1.0f - mousesmoothing);
		lookchange.y = lookchange.y * mousesmoothing + (newmousepos.x - freelookmousepos.x) * 100.0f * mouselookspeed * (1.0f - mousesmoothing);
		if (Abs(lookchange.x) < 0.001f) lookchange.x = 0.0f;
		if (Abs(lookchange.y) < 0.001f) lookchange.y = 0.0f;
		if (lookchange.x != 0.0f or lookchange.y != 0.0f)
		{
			freelookrotation.x += lookchange.x;
			freelookrotation.y += lookchange.y;
			camera->SetRotation(freelookrotation, true);
		}
		freelookmousepos = newmousepos;
		float speed = movespeed;// / 60.0f;
		bool jumpkey = window->KeyHit(KEY_SPACE);
		if (entity->GetAirborne())
		{
			speed *= 0.25f;
		}
		else
		{
			if (window->KeyDown(KEY_SHIFT))
			{
				speed *= 2.0f;
			}
			else if (window->KeyDown(KEY_CONTROL))
			{
				speed *= 0.5f;
			}
			if (jumpkey)
			{
				jump = jumpforce;
			}
		}
		if (window->KeyDown(KEY_D)) movement.x += speed;
		if (window->KeyDown(KEY_A)) movement.x -= speed;
		if (window->KeyDown(KEY_W)) movement.z += speed;
		if (window->KeyDown(KEY_S)) movement.z -= speed;
		if (movement.x != 0.0f and movement.z != 0.0f) movement *= 0.707f;
		if (jump != 0.0f)
		{
			movement.x *= jumplunge;
			if (movement.z > 0.0f) movement.z *= jumplunge;
		}
		crouch = window->KeyDown(KEY_CONTROL);

		if (window->KeyDown(KEY_ENTER)) {
			this->GetEntity()->SetPosition(0, 0, 0);
			this->currentcameraposition = this->GetEntity()->position;
		}

	}
	entity->SetInput(camera->rotation.y, movement.z, movement.x, jump, crouch);
		
	float eye = eyeheight;
	float y = TransformPoint(currentcameraposition, nullptr, entity).y;
	float h = eye;
	if (y < eye) h = Mix(y, eye, 0.5f);
	currentcameraposition = TransformPoint(0, h, 0, entity, nullptr);
	camera->SetPosition(currentcameraposition, true);
}

 

[reepblue]

I'm able to teleport my player around fine in my project. Did you try entity->Sync()?

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You might also want to try disabling the physics before the swap and then resetting it after. The idea is that you want the physics and rendering thread to catch up. Maybe this can be done internally? 

// Disable Physics
entity->SetPhysicsMode(PHYSICS_DISABLED);

// Swap the positions
entity->SetPosition(0,0,0);
entity->Sync();

// Renable Physics
entity->SetPhysicsMode(PHYSICS_PLAYER);

 

[Andy90]

Yeah with the physics disabling and reactivating it is working. I was not expecting to do this. Maybe SetPosition() should do this allready. Or an Translate() function wich is doing this. Thanks Reep