Interaction SDK provides a Teleport quick action utility, available via the right-click menu in the Heirarchy panel, to automate setting up objects within the scene to act as targets when teleporting using locomotion. This utility can be used to set up a variety of different types of targets for teleporting, including hotspots, navigation meshes, planes, and physics layers.

The quick action simplifies the process of setting up teleportation targets in a scene, making it easier for developers to create immersive experiences. In this guide, we will focus on setting up a navigation mesh as a target for teleporting.

How does the Teleport Quick Action work?

The Teleport Wizard, which contains settings and required component options for configuring the Teleport quick action, is displayed when the Teleport quick action is selected. Once configured, the user can click Create and the quick action will handle creating all necessary components and wiring everything up to create a new teleportation target.

The settings and required components when creating a NavMesh teleport interactable are explained below.

Settings

Setting	Description
Add Interactors	Specifies which device or input types - Hands, Controllers and Hands, Controllers Driven Hands, Everything, Nothing - to add teleport interactors to, if not already present. Multiple device types can be selected.
Use Microgestures
Interactable Type	Should be set to Nav Mesh.
Auto Generate Collider	Specifies whether to generate a collider for the provided Rigidbody, if one is not already present.

Required Components

A distance grab interaction requires the following components to be present on the distance grabbable object:

a Rigidbody component on the grabbable object so its position and orientation can be simulated.

Optional Components

A distance grab interaction can use the following components to be present, if desired:

a Snap Interactable component so the object has a position to snap back to once released.

a Mesh Filter component to use as the hologram visual displayed to show the object can be grabbed at a distance.

How do I make an object grabbable at a distance?

In the Hierarchy panel, add a cube GameObject by right-clicking and selecting 3D Object > Cube. The cube appears in the Hierarchy.

In the Hierarchy, select the Cube, and in the Inspector, under Transform, change the Position to [0, 1, 0.5] and the Scale to [0.25, 0.25, 0.25]. This positions the cube where it can be easily interacted with and scales it to a manageable size.

Right-click on the Cube, and select Interaction SDK > Add Distance Grab Interaction. The Distance Grab wizard appears.

In the Distance Grab wizard, select Fix All to fix any errors. This will add missing components or fields if they’re required.

If you want to further customize the interaction, adjust the interaction’s settings in the wizard.

Select Create. The wizard automatically adds the required components for the interaction to the GameObject. It also adds components to the camera rig if those components weren’t already there.

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