[SOLVED] Constructors with unexpected default values

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Hi all. I am relatively new to coding and game development, and i’m working on a little project that i’m letting grow small step by small step. It is a Tile-TurnBased chesslike game.

I am having some sort of “silly” problem with constructors and I really can’t get to decipher C# MSDN guides.

In particular i have two problems:

  1. i have my Tile class which is:

    public class Tile
    {
    public int dimensioneTile;

    public int xRel;
public int yRel;

public bool tileOccupata;

public Tile(int _xRel, int _yRel, bool _occupata)
{
	xRel = _xRel;
	yRel = _yRel;
	tileOccupata = _occupata;
}

(tileOccupata is a “isOccupied” sort of bool)
it works actually, but since all of my tiles “are born” empty I would like to have somthing like:

public class Tile 
{
	public int dimensioneTile;

	public int xRel;
	public int yRel;

	public bool tileOccupata;

	public Tile(int _xRel, int _yRel)
	{
		xRel = _xRel;
		yRel = _yRel;
		tileOccupata = false;
	}
}

Where the variable already stores the information of being “empty”, but if i code it like so it stores it as true, ignoring my line of code saying “tileOccupata = false”… this is not the behavior i was expecting.

My second problem is similar but slightly different

public class Eroe  
{
	public string nome;
	public int Strength;
	//i want health to be Strength * 2
	public int Health;
	
//constructor
public Eroe(string _nome, int STR)
	{
		nome = _nome;

		Strength = STR;
		Health = Strength * 2;
           //i  also tried Health = STR * 2
	}
}

in both cases Health turns out to be 0

So my actual question is:
do i need to have a parameter for each variable i have in my class for it to be actually initialized at a different value than 0 || true? How can I do it?

Thank you for your help

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I found the error.
As I thought it was a noob one.
I had stored some “Eroe” before i added the variable “Health”.
I was running the game using the old instances that didn’t have Health set