Question What is the best approach to implementing passengers?

What is the best way to implement passengers? I can think of a few way to deal with character controllers entering vehicles. The passengers will be seated and have restricted animations.

1: Parent and remove components from the character controller (Physics Body and Physics Shape).
2: Use a fixed joint I have not really looked into joints yet.
3: Do something like PlatformMotionSystem this seems over kill.
4: Wait until disable components becomes a thing.

Right now with gameObjects I do something like option 1#.

 

#1 sounds like the option. Add a Parent and a PhysicsExclude component. Then remove both when they need to disembark.

 

I did not know about PhysicsExclude thanks. Does this exclude only the tagged entity or also children? I have the rigidbody collider and also children hit box colliders. I would like the hit boxes to still function.

 

What's simplest depends on the controller. Like with kinematic controllers I've found it easier to use a passenger component that stores the passenger local to to vehicle. Then it's as simple as a boarding/unboarding that adds/removes the passenger component and stores the local translation/rotation and a job with a signature like below which updates the world position/rotation. The controller should just set velocity to 0. No adding/removing physics components or transform system parenting which is more complex, especially given you likely will have a passenger component of some type anyways.

.ForEach(Passenger p, Translation t, Rotation r)