Object hover over collider during runtime?

Questions & Answers
1

So I have a ball that acts as a controller for my “blob” character, its strange though because when I press play, the collider seems to hit the ground, but my blob character seems to hover above the center. Any ideas on fixing this? Ill post my code and some images. Thank you!

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

public class PlayerAnimation : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject player;
Animator animator;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    animator = this.gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
}

private void Update()
{
    player = GameObject.Find("Player");
    if ((Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") != 0) || (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") != 0))
    {
        animator.SetBool("Moved", true);

        Vector3 newPosition = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Vertical"), 0.0f, -Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"));
        transform.LookAt(newPosition + transform.position);
        transform.Translate(-newPosition * 10f * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
    }
    else if ((Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") == 0) || (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") == 0)) { animator.SetBool("Moved", false); }
}

void LateUpdate()
{
    transform.position = player.transform.position;
}

}
In Editor:

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During Runtime:
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2

It looks like you could have a Rigidbody component that has “Gravity” ticked in the inspector.

The other reason could be that if you are playing an animation for the movement, check the Y-axis of the animation clip. It could have been recorded with a Y-axis value of 0, meaning that when you play the animation, it resets your gameObject Y-axis back to 0.

3

Ended up changing my lateupdate method to this, now it works fine:

void LateUpdate()
    {
        Vector3 pos = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x,player.transform.position.y-.39f,player.transform.position.z);
        transform.position = pos;
    }