Character losing life event not firing

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1

Hi, I’m trying to make a script that when my character falls off the side, it means he’ll use a life. and while he currently respawns, he doesn’t lose a life here’s my two parts of code.-

Lives 2 Player.js

private var dead = false;

    function OnCollisionEnter(hit : Collision)
    {
        if(hit.gameObject.tag == "DeadArea")
        {
           	dead = true;      
          	Lives1.LIVES1 -= 3;
        }
	}
    
function LateUpdate()
{
if(dead){
    transform.position = Vector3(40,16,13);
    dead = false;
    Debug.Log("Respawned Player 1");
}
   else {
    Debug.Log("Alive");
}
}

Lives1.js

var Health1 : Texture2D;
var Health2 : Texture2D;
var Health3 : Texture2D;

static var LIVES1 = 3;

function Update () 
{
	switch(LIVES1)
	{
		case 3:
			Debug.Log ("1 life lost");
			guiTexture.texture = Health3;
		break;
			
		case 2:
			guiTexture.texture = Health2;
		break;
			
		case 1:
			guiTexture.texture = Health1;
		break;
		
		case 0:
			//Application.LoadLevel(0);
		break;
	}
}
2

looks like it should be Lives1.LIVES1 -= 1; (as you want 1 life-point to be removed). Also you are starting on case 3, so the debug should be firing all the time until you actually lose a life(currently looks like the level reloads since you remove 3 points from 3 LIVES1).

something like

static var LIVES1 = 4;
function Update()
{
    switch(LIVES1)
        {
           case 4:
             Debug.Log ("No lives lost");
           break;

           case 3:
             Debug.Log ("1 life lost");
             guiTexture.texture = Health3;
           break;
    
           case 2:
             Debug.Log ("2 lives lost");
             guiTexture.texture = Health2;
           break;
    
           case 1:
             Debug.Log ("3 lives lost");
             guiTexture.texture = Health1;
           break;
    
           case 0:
             Debug.Log ("4th life lost/DEAD");
             //Application.LoadLevel(0);
           break;
        }
    }

You need 1 case for each life, adding the additional for no lives lost(default case), total of 5 cases with your current setup of 4 lives.