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Question by Thunderturtle712 · Mar 09, 2014 at 10:05 PM · c#2dfloatreturnside-scrolling

Assets/Scripts/PlayerController.cs(32,49): error CS0126: An object of a type convertible to `float' is required for the return statement

Can someone please tell me what this means?

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 [RequireComponent(typeof(PlayerPhysics))]
 public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
 
 
     public float speed = 8;
     public float acceleration = 12;
 
     private float currentSpeed;
     private float targetSpeed;
     private Vector2 amountToMove;
 
     private PlayerPhysics playerphysics;
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () { 
         playerPhysics = GetComponent<PlayerPhysics>();
 
     
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         targetSpeed = Input.GetAxisRaw ("Horizontal") * speed;
         currentSpeed = IncrementTowards (currentSpeed, targetSpeed, acceleration);
     }
 
     private float IncrementTowards(float n, float target, float speed) {
         if (n == target) {
                         return; // this is the line it says
                 } else {
                         float dir = Mathf.Sign (target - n);
                         n += Time.deltaTime * dir;
                         return (dir == Mathf.Sign (target - n)) ? n : target;
                 }
         }
 }
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Answer by robertbu · Mar 09, 2014 at 10:07 PM

You are missing a ';' on line 15. I imagine that your error was on line 18. When you see an error that doesn't make sense, the previous code line in the file is often the culprit.

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by the way the question above is for a different question. I just edited it for a different question.

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In the future, close out the old question and open a new question. Editing an old/answered question to be a new question is confusing for anyone who is search for answers among the questions.

Your function IncrementTowards() returns a float, so any return statement needs to return a float value. I expect that line 32 should be:

  return 0.0;

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