Teleporting the Player

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About Author jameszhao, Jasper Skill Level Intermediate Compatibility All

This tutorial will teach you how to use the flowgraph feature to teleport a player when he steps inside a proximity trigger.

Contents 1 Setting the Destination 2 Setting the Start Position 3 Create the Flowgraph 4 Creating the Nodes 5 Connecting the Ports 6 Results

Setting the Destination

We are going to use a AI TagPoint to specify where we want the player to be beamed to.

In the RollupBar, click the AI button under the Create tab. Then select TagPoint and place it where you want the player to teleport to.

Once you're done, name the tagpoint beamplace

Setting the Start Position

We are going to use a ProximityTrigger to detect when a player has entered an area. When it's triggered, it's going to start the flowgraph for us.

In the RollupBar, click the Entity button. Then drag the ProximityTrigger from the Triggers folder.

Create the Flowgraph

Now, click the Create button under the property editor's Flow Graph section.

Name it Teleport.

Creating the Nodes

Now we need to add a ProximityTrigger node to our flowgraph. Whenever the player steps inside this volume, the ProximityTrigger will cause this flowgraph to execute. Right click in the flowgraph editor and select Add Selected Entity

Then, add a Localplayer node to our flowgraph by right clicking and selecting Add Node→Game→LocalPlayer from the popup menu.

Using the same steps, add the following nodes

1. BeamEntity node from Entity/BeamEntity
2. GetPos node from Entity/GetPos

Now we need to assign a entity to the entity input port (aka Choose Entity). First select the beamplace tagpoint from the 3D view. Then right click the red Choose Entity port and select Assign selected entity from the popup menu.

Connecting the Ports

Connecting the ports allow a node to use another node's output as its input.

To connect a output port to a input port, click and drag from the output port's arrow to the input port's arrow. You should see a curvy arrowed line appear.

Now, connect the following ports:

1. ProximityTrigger's enter to Entity:GetPos' Get
2. ProximityTrigger's enter to Entity:BeamEntity's Beam
3. Game:LocalPlayer's entityId to Entity:BeamEntity's <Input Entity>
4. Entity:GetPos' Pos, Rotate and Scale to Entity:BeamEntity's Position, Rotation and Scale

You should see something similar to this after you're done. Don't worry, the HUD Overlay Text isn't mandatory, it just shows a message on your HUD once you have been beamed.

Results

Walk into the ProximityTrigger, and you should be teleported.