C# Issue with a Class in Finite State Machine (Unity)

[DictatorPanda]

Good day/night! I've been working on making a Match 3 game in Unity for a project and I'm 99% done but there is an issue. After the player makes a match, the pieces aren't falling to fill the empty squares and I'm not sure what the reason is. Disclaimer: This is a HW assignment where I had to turn an enum to a finite state machine. It's basically done, but I only have this issue. I'm not asking anyone to do the assignment for me. As I said before, I did it. I just have this error and wanted to get another set of eyes to view the code and point out anything off about it.

Currently after the player makes a match, the pieces aren't falling down for some reason. The class that's supposed to handle it is the MovingState Class and this is what I have at the moment:

public override void Update(Animal animal)
    { //Animal refers to the Animal Class where the states are put into action
        Debug.Log("Moving...");

        animal.lerpTime += Time.deltaTime;
       if (animal.lerpTime > animal.lerpTimeMax)
       {
            animal.lerpTime = animal.lerpTimeMax;
            //animal.ChangeState(animal.idle);

       }

        if (animal.lerpTimeMax != 0) //Prevents an invalid input error
        {
            //shrinks the game objs
            animal.transform.localScale = Vector3.Lerp(animal.lerpOrigin, animal.lerpTarget, animal.lerpTime / animal.lerpTimeMax);
            
        }

        if (animal.transform.localScale == animal.lerpTarget) 
        {
            change_move = true; //This bool was declared in the beginning of the class so it's not the issue 
            //Debug.Log("LerpT is LS");
        }

        if (change_move)
        {   
            animal.ChangeState(animal.idle);
            change_move = false;
        }
    }

This is her original code.:

if (State == AnimalState.Moving) //using an enum
        {
            lerpTime += Time.deltaTime;
            if (lerpTime > lerpTimeMax)
            {
                lerpTime = lerpTimeMax;
                State = AnimalState.Idle;
            }

            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(lerpOrigin, lerpTarget, lerpTime / lerpTimeMax);
        }

I made sure not too make too many changes to her code since it did the job, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I noticed that in her original code it did change the state back to idle after the conditional. I tried that, but it didn't work either. Any tips or tutorials are appreciated!

 

[kevindougans]

Wish I knew the answer for you. Have you tried adding in more debug log messages? That's where I would start I'd have debug.log after almost every line of code, displaying any data on any variables being passed, i.e.:

if (animal.lerpTimeMax != 0) //Prevents an invalid input error
        {
            //shrinks the game objs
            animal.transform.localScale = Vector3.Lerp(animal.lerpOrigin, animal.lerpTarget, animal.lerpTime / animal.lerpTimeMax);
            Debug.Log("animial lerpOrigin="+animal.lerpOrigin+" target="+animal.lerpTarget);
        }