how to find the player without attaching a script to it

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1

Hey. I want to start modding games but I quickly found out that I need to learn how to control everything without the editor, so I wanted to test some things and one of the things I wanted to do is to attach a movement script to the player via script but the script I wrote isnt working. here it is:

public float speed;
public GameObject Player;

void Start()
{
    Player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player"); //trying to find the player via tags
}

void Update()
{
    //movement
    Vector3 movement = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0f, 0f);
    Player.transform.position = movement * Time.deltaTime * speed;
    //printing the player current position to the console
    Debug.Log(Player.transform.position.x);
    Debug.Log(Player.transform.position.z);
    Debug.Log(Player.transform.position.y);
}

}

any ideas?

2

Did you add the Tag “Player” to the player object?
If you did, try, GameObject.Find("Player") and name the Player object to “Player”