EVERYTHING STOPPED WORKING

[safe cargo]

My game was working perfectly. then I pasted maybe 10 lines of code from ChatGPT and Visual Studios asked if I wanted to resave as Unicode. I didn't know what this meant so I clicked cancel and undid the changes by chat, but now NOTHING works. The player cant move anymore, doesn't teleport to spawn, is frozen in place, and so on. I'm completely lost on what to do, I tried resaving the file with ENCODING as Unicode, didn't fix it.

[gleaming stone]

the hazards of trusting everything to AI without understanding anything 😢

start by checking your console window for errors of any kind

[swift cave]

are you getting any errors

whoops wasn't scrolled down

[safe cargo]

There isn't even any errors to go off of

I tried pasting all the code into a new "PlayerScript2" file in case the issue was the file itself and then deleted the old one, but the problem still persists

[gleaming stone]

That's fine, that's just step one

if there's no errors the next step is to check that the code is actually running

add some Debug.Log statements into your movement code

and make sure they're printing at runtime

[safe cargo]

[PlayerScript] Start: rb=OK, bodyType=Dynamic, gravityScale=4, simulated=True, constraints=FreezeRotation UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object) PlayerScript:Start () (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerScript.cs:73)
[PlayerScript] Start: animator=OK, playerSpawn=OK, groundCheck=OK UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object) PlayerScript:Start () (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerScript.cs:80)

heres some debug log stuff I ran. When I try to move left or right it flips the sprite so it seems like the code is running

[gleaming stone]

this is just telling us Start ran

we're more interested in the movement code

To be honeest, looking at your code, I'm not actually seeing anything that would move the player under normal circumstances

Oh I see here:

        float moveInput = horizontalInput;
        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(moveInput * speed, rb.linearVelocity.y);```

make sure this is running

and make sure moveInput and speed are not zero

[safe cargo]

I have this under the horizontal input but nothing is showing up in the consol:

   if (!movementCheckLogged && Mathf.Abs(moveInput) > 0.01f && rb != null && Mathf.Abs(rb.linearVelocity.x) < 0.001f)
   {
       Debug.LogWarning($"[PlayerScript] Movement input detected (moveInput={moveInput}) but rb.linearVelocity.x is {rb.linearVelocity.x}. Rigidbody2D bodyType={rb.bodyType}, gravityScale={rb.gravityScale}, simulated={rb.simulated}, constraints={rb.constraints}");
       movementCheckLogged = true;
   }

[gleaming stone]

too complicated

just put if (Mathf.Abs(moveInput) > 0.01)

what you have right now is only ever going to log once

[safe cargo]

Ok I added this

[gleaming stone]

we want to know the value of speed too

[safe cargo]

Player speed: 7.5
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerScript:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerScript2.cs:122)

The player is frozen in place however, even if floating in the air

Keep in mind the player shouldn't even be positioned where he is, there is a PlayerSpawn object that he sould be teleporting to at the start

Also the yellow warning is for the old script which I deleted

[gleaming stone]

It will be from either:

• Some other codee of yours that is setting the position
• An animator component you have on it
• Or you have the position constrained on the Rigidbody2d

or some combination of these three

[safe cargo]

I see, That makes sense as the animation code is playing, it just seems to be the movement left and right, and the teleport to spawn

I'm just so confused on how this could have happened as none of the other code was altered when I pasted the addition of "PlayerAttackUp"

[gleaming stone]

Two of the three of those reasons I just mentioned aren't even code related

[safe cargo]

my rigidbody2d only has the z component constrained, what do you mean by the animator component? What effect would that have on my player being able to move left and right

[gleaming stone]

the animator can take full control of the object's position

and it will indeed do that if you have it animating the root object

[safe cargo]

Wow you were right!

I unchecked the animator and now the player teleports to spawn and can move

thats crazy, thanks so much