Question Children not moving with parent when parent becomes a child.

I'm working on a moving platform script and everything is working great except when I parent the player to the moving platform.

Code (CSharp):

1. public class MovingPlatform : MonoBehaviour
2.     {
3.         public Vector3[] points;
4.         public int pointNumber = 0;
5.         private Vector3 currentTarget;
6.  
7.         public float tolerance;
8.         public float speed;
9.         public float delayTime;
10.  
11.         private float delayStart;
12.  
13.         public bool automatic;
14.  
15.         private void Start()
16.         {
17.             if (points.Length > 0)
18.             {
19.                 currentTarget = points[0];
20.             }
21.             tolerance = speed * Time.deltaTime;
22.         }
23.  
24.         private void FixedUpdate() //Using FixedUpdate because of character controller
25.         {
26.             if (transform.position != currentTarget)
27.             {
28.                 MovePlatform();
29.             }
30.             else
31.             {
32.                 UpdateTarget();
33.             }
34.         }
35.  
36.         private void MovePlatform()
37.         {
38.             Vector3 heading = currentTarget - transform.position;
39.             transform.position += (heading / heading.magnitude) * speed * Time.deltaTime;
40.             if (heading.magnitude < tolerance)
41.             {
42.                 transform.position = currentTarget;
43.                 delayStart = Time.time;
44.             }
45.         }
46.  
47.         private void UpdateTarget()
48.         {
49.             if (automatic)
50.             {
51.                 if (Time.time - delayStart > delayTime)
52.                 {
53.                     NextPlatform();
54.                 }
55.             }
56.         }
57.  
58.         public void NextPlatform()
59.         {
60.             pointNumber++;
61.             if (pointNumber >= points.Length)
62.             {
63.                 pointNumber = 0;
64.             }
65.             currentTarget = points[pointNumber];
66.         }
67.  
68.         private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
69.         {
70.             if (other.gameObject.tag == "Player")
71.             {
72.                 other.transform.parent = transform;
73.             }
74.         }
75.  
76.         private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
77.         {
78.             other.transform.parent = null;
79.         }
80.  
81.     }

When the player enters the trigger the character controller stays on the platform but the camera moves elsewhere but is still controllable. When the player leaves the trigger and not a child of the platform anymore the camera snaps back to the player and works fine.

 

Sounds like the problem is really in the camera script?

 

I already tested that by disabling the mouse look script but it still does it.

 

Is the mouse look script the only script which does any movement of the camera?

 

There is some code in the player controller script where if the player uses the crouch key the camera lowers but I commented all that out and it's still doing it. I have a temporary fix where I add

Code (CSharp):

1. transform.position = new Vector3(playerTransform.position.x, playerTransform.position.y + 0.9f, playerTransform.position.z);

to the mouse look Update() function, which works, but I'm not sure if that's the best way to handle this.