moving a transform by 10 but it goes exra...

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this has me totaly stumped.

im telling my camera to move down 10 like so:

 function initCam()
 {
     cam.transform.position.y = -10;
 }

and for some reason when i test the app it goes from 0(its starting Y position) to -11.10805. i cant imagine why it would blatantly ignore what i have written in the script.

here is how its called:

 function OnGUI () 
 {
     if(totalTargets == 1)
     {
         if (GUI.Button(Rect(Screen.width*.1, Screen.height*.45, Screen.width*.15, Screen.height*.05), "Initialize"))
         {
             initCam();
             for(t in TargetedTargets)
             {
                 if (t == true)
                 {
                     targets[c].initNow();
                 }
                 c++;
             }
             c=0;
         }
     }
 }

side note: when i try to put it back to 0 using cam.transform.position.y = 0; it goes to -1.108051 instead. so far this is the first piece of code for moving the camera in this project. so it cant be any interference from any other scripts.

forgot my unity was out of date, could be some kind of error. i'm going to update and restart my PC or something, see if that fixes it.

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Answer by jtok4j · Nov 21, 2014 at 07:16 AM

Hi Hardmode2236,

I recently lost some hair with this same issue... I was pulling my hair out, trying to figure out what the #)*(WGN was wrong with my coding...

It turned out that "After" I started playing my scene, the position of the object that I was moving with transform, actually was changed from where I thought it was.
It was a child object of a larger prefab, if I remember right.

So, it went like this: Object's transform y position was set at 0.
When I clicked "play" (that button) in the editor, I then went to the inspector, and saw my object's (the one I'm transforming) position (y) was not at 0 anymore, due to the placement of the parent object/prefab.

So, try to check and see if your object's run-time position is actually adjusted after the scene starts up. :)

Hope this helps.

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hardmode2236 · Nov 21, 2014 at 07:24 AM 0

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ahhh yess, thats it. my 'world' object which is a parent to all objects in the scene wasn't at (0,0,0). i set it right, now my camera is perfect. thanks for the insight :)

jtok4j · Nov 21, 2014 at 07:25 AM 0

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Sweet! :D

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