Script ignores line of code unless in editor?

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So I don’t know why, but when I build my game, it completely ignores a specific line of code, no matter where i put it.
(yes everything is defined, and no I’m not seeing any errors)

public void respawn()
    {
        Health = 100;
        dead = false;
        deathScreen.SetActive(false);
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
        Time.timeScale = 1f;
        GunScript.justUnpaused = true;
        PaintGun.justUnpaused = true;
        SpawnGunScript.justUnpaused = true;
        DeleteGunScript.justUnpaused = true;
        GravityGunScript.justUnpaused = true;
        HealScript.justUnpaused = true;
        GrenadeThrower.justUnpaused = true;
        player.position = spawnPoint;
    }

It just completely ignores player.position = spawnPoint, anyone know how to fix this?

2

If this works in editor and not in build then spawnPoint might not have serialized properly.
Add a debug statement and check output.txt in build folder.

3

It is a common mistake among newbie programmers to see some sort of bug, reason that “if X happened, that would explain this bug”, and then assume that X is true without looking for other things that could also explain the same symptom.

The computer randomly deciding to skip a line of code is not a plausible hypothesis. I don’t know what symptom you actually saw, but unless you stepped through this code in a debugger one line at a time and watched it jump from line 15 to line 17 without stopping on line 16, I think odds are high that you have misinterpreted the cause.

Other possibilities include:

  • The variable “player” doesn’t have the value you expected
  • The variable “spawnPoint” doesn’t have the value you expected
  • This whole function isn’t running at the time that you expected it to run
  • Something else changed the player’s position after this code ran
  • A runtime exception was thrown on an earlier line, causing the function to end prematurely (unlikely; nothing in the code you posted is likely to throw an exception)