NotifyTeleport doesn't exist: What's the replacement?

[brentshermana]

Hi there,

I have an InteractionBehaviour object in my scene which I occasionally teleport to a different location. I've read the Interaction Engine Docs which say that when you change an object's position, you need to notify the engine of the movement using NotifyTeleport(). However, that method doesn't seem to exist anymore. I've searched for it using Visual Studio's Intellisense and by searching in the solution explorer.

As a result, every time a teleportation occurs, I get a huge performance drop which (rarely) crashes the Unity editor.

[AlexColgan]

You're consulting the legacy docs for V2 -- you'll want to use the Orion docs: https://github.com/leapmotion/UnityModules/wiki

[_mike]

ok, thanks for the link, but is there an answer to the question? i've read and searched those docs and can't find any mention of how to handle the scenario of teleporting an object?

[brentshermana]

Hey Mike, it seems that teleportation works just fine, so they must have removed the function for that reason.

As it turns out, my massive performance issues stemmed from the Interaction Engine. You see, I had a non-convex mesh which supported hovering, so every frame while I was hovering Leap had to determine the closest point on the mesh to my hand. This calculation is very fast for Convex Mesh Colliders and primitive colliders, but because I wasn't using either of those and my model had many vertices, the cost of calculating this was massive!

The interaction Engine was kindly warning me of this, but I rarely pay attention to logged warnings xD

[AlexColgan]

@brentshermana Kudos for following up on this thread and posting the solution to your issue once it was identified