Player movement not working

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1

I have this script to move the player (and their gun) and I can’t figure out why it’s not working. The debug.log(“blah”) things show me that the if statements are activating but the player doesn’t move at all. Here is the script:

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject pBody;
    public GameObject pGunOrigin;
	public static float speed;
    Vector3 gOffset;
    private bool right;
    private bool left;
    private bool forward;
    private bool backward;
    public Rigidbody rbody;
	void Start () {
        gOffset = pGunOrigin.transform.position - transform.position;
        rbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }
	void FixedUpdate () {
        right = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow);
        left = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow);
        forward = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow);
        backward = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.DownArrow);
        if (right == true && left == false)
        {
            Debug.Log("Right");
            rbody.AddForce(new Vector3(speed, 0, 0), ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        }
        if (left == true && right == false)
        {
            Debug.Log("Left");
            rbody.AddForce(new Vector3(-speed, 0, 0), ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        }
        if (forward == true && backward == false)
        {
            Debug.Log("Forward");
            rbody.AddForce(new Vector3(0, 0, speed), ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        }
        if (backward == true && forward == false)
        {
            Debug.Log("Backward");
            rbody.AddForce(new Vector3(0, 0, -speed), ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        }
        pGunOrigin.transform.position = pBody.transform.position + gOffset;
    }
}
2

your code does not need to be so complicated. Instead of having

if(bool = true)

you can just say

if(this button is pressed)

here is an example

if(Input.getKey(KeyCode.UpArrow))
{
   GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = new Vector3(0,0,speed);
}

you may need to use a different way to add force to the player but hopefully i made my point.

I believe in your code the problem lies within the statements

rbody.AddForce(new Vector3(0, 0, -speed), ForceMode.VelocityChange);

try changing ForceMode.VelocityChange to ForceMode.Impulse. (I hear it is better to use that)

I hope this helps