Death on impact with water

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So i have a open ocean, on top of it are platforms. in my game you jump from platform to platform! object is to get to the finish line without touching the water! i’d like to make it so that when you touch the water u’r player die, and you respawn at the begining! so far there are no life counter, so loosing a life is not a relevant factor! i’m pretty ned to unity so effects like: fading to red upon death, ETC are not important! i’m using the default “first person controller” that comes with the program! i’m very new to unity so i’d appreciate if any responses where kept simple! posting a script won’t be enough, i’m afraid! i need to know what to do with it! i’d be very glad for any help!

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You could have a collider set as trigger that upon collision initiates a sequence on the player.

//Trigger collider script
function OnTriggerEnter (other : Collider) {
    if (!other.CompareTag("Player") return; //Exit if this isn't the player
    var pScript : PlayerScript = other.GetComponent(PlayerScript); //Get the script component of the player (this could be cached for performance too)
    pScript.Kill(); //Run the function called Kill on the player
}

//Part of the player script
private var startPos : Vector3;
function Start () {
    startPos = transform.position;
}

function Kill () {
    animation.Play("death"); //Initiate the 'death' animation
    yield WaitForSeconds (animation["death"].length); //Wait for animation to finish
    transform.position = startPos; //Reposition the player at starting point
}

If you don’t use the physics engine you might as well want to check for a certain height, and when below that you initiate the kill function.

private var startPos : Vector3;
private var waterLevel : float = .0;
private var isDead : boolean = false;

function Start () {
    startPos = transform.position;
}

function Update () {
    if (transform.position.y < waterLevel && !isDead) Kill();
}

function Kill () {
    isDead = true;
    animation.Play("death");
    yield WaitForSeconds (animation["death"].length);
    transform.position = startPos;
    isDead = false;
}