Movement Glitch

Hello! I recently coded in the ability for my character's sprite to flip whenever I change the direction of my movement. However, when I start moving in Play Mode, the Transform settings say that my Z coordinate for scale drops to 0, when it's normally 4.3429, both in edit mode and in Play Mode when I don't press any keys. Is there any way to fix this? Here is my code that I have for the character so far.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7.     public float speed = 5f;
8.     public float jumpSpeed = 5f;
9.     private float movement = 0f;
10.     private Rigidbody2D rigidBody;
11.     public Transform groundCheckPoint;
12.     public float groundCheckRadius;
13.     public LayerMask groundLayer;
14.     private bool isTouchingGround;
15.  
16.     // Use this for initialization
17.     void Start()
18.     {
19.         rigidBody = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
20.     }
21.  
22.     // Update is called once per frame
23.     void Update()
24.     {
25.         isTouchingGround = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(groundCheckPoint.position, groundCheckRadius, groundLayer);
26.         movement = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
27.         if (movement > 0f) {
28.             rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(movement * speed, rigidBody.velocity.y);
29.             transform.localScale = new Vector2(59.20651f, 59.20651f);
30.         }
31.         else if (movement < 0f) {
32.             rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(movement * speed, rigidBody.velocity.y);
33.             transform.localScale = new Vector2(-59.20651f, 59.20651f);
34.         }
35.         else {
36.        
37.             rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(0, rigidBody.velocity.y);
38.         }
39.         if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isTouchingGround) {
40.             rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(rigidBody.velocity.x, jumpSpeed);
41.         }
42.     }
43. }
44.  

 

For testing, I removed these 2 lines of code: transform.localScale = new Vector2(59.20651f, 59.20651f);, and transform.localScale = new Vector2(-59.20651f, 59.20651f);. The game ran fine in Play Mode (I can see my character in the Game's Camera view), so is there an edit I have to make with these 2 lines of code?

 

As you are assigning a Vector2 to transform.localScale, which is a Vector3, the 3rd component "z" gets zeroed out ;-P

You might want to store the localScale in "Start()" (in a Vector3) so you could use something like this:
transform.localScale = new Vector3(-storedScale.x, storedScale.y, storedScale.z);

 

How would that look in this script in terms of positioning and typing? I'm not sure how to put it in properly, and I don't want to ruin this code. Would you be willing to show me where and how to put it in?