So my Slime enemy seems to be spawning above the player

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Godot Version

Godot v4.7.stable.official [5b4e0cb0f]

Question

So I’ve been following Brackeys Godot tutorial, got to the enemy part and I’m experiencing some issues. Firstly the enemy doesn’t appear to spawn where I placed it on my tile map, instead it appears above the player but its just in the air and its animation doesn’t play at all. I suspect something with the Ray cast has to do with because when I remove those it just spawns in the regular place. But I’m not sure what exactly about the Ray Cast is causing the issue.

Before game starts:

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After game starts:

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extends Node2D

const speed = 40
var direction = 1

@onready var ray_cast_left: RayCast2D = $RayCastLeft
@onready var ray_cast_right: RayCast2D = $RayCastRight
@onready var animated_sprite_2d: AnimatedSprite2D = $AnimatedSprite2D

func _process(delta : float):
	ray_cast_right.force_raycast_update()
	ray_cast_left.force_raycast_update()
	
	if ray_cast_left.is_colliding():
		direction = 1
		animated_sprite_2d.flip_h = false
	if ray_cast_right.is_colliding():
		direction = -1 
		animated_sprite_2d.flip_h = true
	
	position.x = direction * speed * delta
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I think it should be

position.x += direction * speed * delta

Assuming everything else is correct

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Reiterating this point for OP, this is likely the culprit. Probably just a typo on their part, easy detail to gloss over when learning from tutorials and copying a screen full of code

Using “+=” calculates with the current position in mind
Using “=” overrides and sets the position to whatever value “direction x speed x delta” is