Character Body wont move +Y whilst in Area3D

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Godot Version

4.2

Question

Hello, I am currently attempting to use Area3Ds to denote bodies of water. I am using an Area3D + CollisionShape3D in the world to detect an Area3D + CollisionShape3D attached to my character. Using signals all detection worked well, but oddly my character would refuse to move vertically. I tested in and out of my area setups with the same code and the body simply refused to move up, but would move in every other direction. I also ran a print command on my vertical move code, which was simply “input → velocity.y” and the code was running. I am very new so hopefully this is just beginner error…

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Is the character hitting something? if you’re using move_and_slide it should return true if you collided with something.

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Will double check, but the “water area” is in open space to the side of my beginning platform. There is a mesh plane but that has no collision… Once again testing.
Also thanks!

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Tried and unclear. Not familiar with how to get move_slide to return a console message (I assume that is what you meant), how would I do so?
As well, removed all but the water areas and player, still had the issue.

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Got move_slide to return message, test comes back negative. No physical collision only signal fires…

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And you can move up outside of the water area?

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Jumping using velocity works just fine.

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Hold on, may have found problem… Edit: Nope…

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Ok, no idea why, but it started working… Kinda… Brutalized my code to eliminate any potential contradictions, so its not running smooth, but I think I’ve isolated the issue. My vertical control block was basically…
If → Input
Up
If → Input
Down
Else
Neutral
I think the code didn’t like that, I removed the second if and else and it started responding…
So moral of the story is… Uh, code better lol.
I should have known such a simple setup would cause errors in hindsight.
Gonna put my stuff back together before finalizing this topic just in case though.
Thanks!

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ah yeah, you probably just needed

if up_input:
  up
elif down_input:
  down
else:
  notupdown

But also check out Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector() those make simple movement code even simpler

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That makes sense, thanks for the closing tip. Id say that is probably the solution to this mess. Thanks!

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