Need help on topdown 2d movement Idle

Unity Engine
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Hello all, new poster/Unity user here.

I’ve been interested in making a 2d top-down rpg like game for a while now and decided to try with Unity. To learn how to make the 8 directional movement I decided to watch a several years old video tutorial on how to animate directional movement and the idle animation that plays when the movement stops.

I’ve been using this video:

Or “Topdown 2D RPG In Unity - 04 Idle & Face Correct Direction” by Hundred Fires Games on Youtube.

(The other three videos before this in the series just cover the setup, movement, and animation, which I don’t think I need help with).

Everything went well so far, the 8 directional movement animation is fine, until I got to the idle animation. it ends up automatically using the face down idle animation (facing towards the camera) no matter which direction once the movement ended. I want the player object to face whatever direction that the movement ended in.

Here is my code.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{

    private Rigidbody2D myRB;
    private Animator myAnim;

    [SerializeField]
    private float speed;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        myRB = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        myAnim = GetComponent<Animator>();





    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        myRB.velocity = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")) * speed;

        myAnim.SetFloat("Movex", myRB.velocity.x);
        myAnim.SetFloat("Movey", myRB.velocity.y);

        if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") == 1 || Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") == -1 || Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") == 1 || Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") == -1) ;
        {
            myAnim.SetFloat("LastMovex", Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"));
            myAnim.SetFloat("LastMovey", Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
        }

    }
}

I would add images, but I can’t seem to upload from imgur.

I basically used the exact same script, animation, sprites, and directions as the video. Is there some little thing I’m missing? Is the problem a difference between versions?

Thanks.

edit: I am using Unity 2021.3.10f1

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I’m so annoyed now that I figured it out. The problem was the damn semicolon on the end of line 35. Strange though, when I tried to run my program without it before, my player object kept on flashing between animations like crazy. Now I can move on, thank god.

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Hi ThirdFallenKing, I made a video with a better way to control player movement and animations using enums, this is clean, easy to understand, and works beautifully: