Editor doesn't save a node's position

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Godot Version

4.3.stable

Question

I have a player scene named PlayerBody2d (characterbody2d). I added this to my main.tscn scene.

When I change the position in “main.tscn”, it just resets it position to (0,0). It’s not a runtime issue this is happening in the editor.

  • When I checked the scene file (tscn) it literally doesn’t modify it. So I change the position, Editor shows it but if I close and open the scene, or run the game it just resets to 0,0.
  • I checked tscn file in a text editor, and position gets remove, and file is never modified even though I moved the PlayerBody2d and saved it. tscn file doesn’t get modified.
  • If I manually add the position to tscn file, then open up the editor, it again resets it! and deletes the line.
  • It’s same when I import it to other scenes, it’s not just the main scene.
  • All other objects / nodes behave as expected and saves their position etc.
  • When I change skew or scale it works! But position doesn’t work.

I’m going crazy. I tried make it “Editable Children” and “Make Local”, even then it doesn’t work!!!

Any ideas?

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OK. I’ve solved this by brute force.

It turns out there an AnimationPlayer that used this object, and for whatever reason it was causing this bug. Once I deleted the AnimationPlayer, problem is fixed.

It seems like a bug in the editor, as I didn’t have any @tool code and it clearly caused an issue in the editor itself. If anyone else runs into it :slight_smile:

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AnimationPlayers may have a RESET track that is run when the scene is saved, your AnimationPlayer may have had a position (0,0) key on it’s RESET animation.

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I’m pretty sure this was the case! Thanks for this, I’ll keep this in mind. I’d never thought that RESET track to trigger on every save.

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