How do I respawn the Player after it dies?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to make a 2D side-scrolling space shooter and I made a Player which has 3 lives and is supposed to respawn when it dies until lives = 0.

Here’s my script written in C#, but it’s not working correctly… I’m new to this, can anyone help?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Death : MonoBehaviour {

	public int lives = 3;
	public GameObject Player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");

	void  OnTriggerEnter2D ( Collider2D col  ){
		lives--;
		if (col.gameObject.tag == "Enemy") {
			Destroy(gameObject);
			if(lives > 0){
				GameObject PlayerClone = (GameObject)Instantiate(Player, new Vector2(0,0), Quaternion.identity);
			}
			//else RESTART/MENU (i'll write this later)
		}
	}
}
2

I assume that this script is added to the player, yes? If so, your issue lies in this part:

if (col.gameObject.tag == "Enemy") {
         Destroy(gameObject);

In this line, you’ve destroyed the gameobject that the Death script is attached to. Most likely, what you’d want to do instead is to move [gameobject.transform.position] back to the starting position.

If you’re looking for just a simple way to restart the level altogether, you can call:

Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel);

Hope this helps!

3

You really don’t need to destroy the gameObject when your character is “killed” just use renderer.enabled = false, then renderer.enabled = true to respawn it.

With that said, the way you have it set up, you won’t even see it disappear. Try this:

void  OnTriggerEnter2D ( Collider2D col  ){
	lives--;
	if (col.gameObject.tag == "Enemy") {
		if (lives > 0) {
			StartCoroutine (Dead ());
		}
	}

IEnumerator Dead() {
	Debug.Log ("dead");
	renderer.enabled = false;
	yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
	Debug.Log ("respawn");
	renderer.enabled = true;
}
4

I put in this script for a character respawn:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerDie : MonoBehaviour {

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
	
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
	
	
}
void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision){
	if (collision.gameObject.name "End") {
		Destroy(gameObject);        
	}
}

//player respawn

if (gameObject Destroy){
	current.transformation.position new vector3(10, 0, 300);
}

But now it doesn’t seem to work. It tells me there is a parsing error on line 24, and that “End” is an unknown entity. Can anyone help me?