how to find the player without attaching a script to it

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Hey. I want to start modding games but I quickly found out that I need to learn how to control everything without the editor, so I wanted to test some things and one of the things I wanted to do is to attach a movement script to the player via script but the script I wrote isnt working. here it is:

 public float speed;
 public GameObject Player;

 void Start()
 {
     Player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player"); //trying to find the player via tags
 }

 void Update()
 {
     //movement
     Vector3 movement = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0f, 0f);
     Player.transform.position = movement * Time.deltaTime * speed;
     //printing the player current position to the console
     Debug.Log(Player.transform.position.x);
     Debug.Log(Player.transform.position.z);
     Debug.Log(Player.transform.position.y);
 }

}

any ideas?

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Answer by UnityPlum · Nov 01, 2021 at 01:04 AM

Did you add the Tag "Player" to the player object? If you did, try, GameObject.Find("Player") and name the Player object to "Player"

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Edos3306 · Nov 02, 2021 at 01:49 PM 0

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hey yeah I added the Tag but the script isn't even working like it doesn't even debug the player position until I attach the script to an object in the editor but I was hoping I could get it to work without attaching the script to something cuz In modding you cant really do it.

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