VRTK Pause Menu and Pointers.

My life has come to a stand still I have been locked in my uni room for 3 days trying to figure this out. Never before has there been such utter pownage by code. I am calling for help from any saint who may be able to help me.

My goal is pretty simple. I want to have a curved bezier pointer in my game to teleport around in, then when I press the menu button I want that curved bezier pointer to turn into a straight pointer so I can make selections on the menu, simple enough.

The way I go about doing this is I have my straight pointer and bezier pointer stored in children of my controller.

I use a script to swap between them. So when the menu is called the Game_pointer(bezier curved pointer) is turned off and the UI_pointer is activated. When un-paused the reverse happens. Now this all works fine. the menu pops up and everything is happy.

The Issue arises when I try to alter the timescale. The streight pointer will not load. If i change the time scale to be slower it will load sometimes but about 70% of the time the line renderer will not appear correctly. When it does not load it is still in the game. it is just at position 000 and is not targeting my controller for some reason. This is hard to explain so here are some images.

Here is an image of when the Streight pointer renderer spawn correctly.
https://imgur.com/AgkisaH
Here is an image of when it spawns incorrectly.
https://imgur.com/9BfEb1V
you can see that for some reason the script is disabled and its not following my pointer.
If anyone has any experience in VRTK any help would be so so so so much appreciated.


Pastebin to my menu Script.
https://pastebin.com/Lgg981aA

What my menu looks like.
https://imgur.com/qot28yh

What my controller parent looks like.
https://imgur.com/YIW4LHW

What my straight pointer looks like.
https://imgur.com/fzbaksi

What it looks like broken.
https://imgur.com/JqzzLJ4

What it looks like working.
https://imgur.com/BB1Kzam

 

One year later, but there is an easy solution to this. The VRTK_BasePointerRenderer will spawn a VRTK_TransformFollow when the renderer becomes active. You can create your own class that overrides the
CreatePointerOriginTransformFollow() method and set the FollowMoment to OnUpdate instead of OnFixedUpdate.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using VRTK;
3.  
4. public class DS_VRTK_UIStraightPointerRenderer : VRTK_StraightPointerRenderer
5. {
6.     protected override void CreatePointerOriginTransformFollow()
7.     {
8.         pointerOriginTransformFollowGameObject = new GameObject(VRTK_SharedMethods.GenerateVRTKObjectName(true, gameObject.name, "BasePointerRenderer_Origin_Smoothed"));
9.         pointerOriginTransformFollow = pointerOriginTransformFollowGameObject.AddComponent<VRTK_TransformFollow>();
10.         pointerOriginTransformFollow.enabled = false;
11.         pointerOriginTransformFollow.followsScale = false;
12.        
13.         // Set the moment to onUpdate so it is unaffected by Time.timeScale
14.         pointerOriginTransformFollow.moment = VRTK_TransformFollow.FollowMoment.OnUpdate;
15.     }
16. }
17.