How to destroy and respawn the player after loosing a life?

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1

I want to destroy the player object and reset it to the original position it was when the game start. I also want to display a game over screen after the live reaches zero.

public class ShipPlayerController : MonoBehaviour {

// wrecked into an enemy?
     if (other.tag == "EnemyShip") {
        ModShield(-25);
         if ( CurShield <= 0) {
            ModHealth(-1);
         }
         if( CurHealth <= 0) {
            ModLives(-1);

         }

}
2

why destroy the player?
just move it back to the start position.
if you want to make an explosion or something, just move the player offscreen, it will save resources.

//playerscript


public Transform startLocation; //drag a empty gameObject into this on the inspector, then move the empty gameObject to where you want the player to "respawn"

//then

if (CurHealth <=0){ 
ModLives(-1);
//do some explody thing
//if you need to "hide" the player just use something like 
//transform.position = new Vector3(-999f,-999f,-999f);
transform.position = startLocation.position; // move the player to the position of the empty gameObject
}

also I see a lot of people naming their variables with a capital letter, while this is absolutely your own choice, its nicer to start with a lowercase letter and capitalise the second word(if there is one) not only does it look nicer, but you can avoid clashes with reserved words(sometimes). just a thought :slight_smile:

look at GUI options for the game over screen, there are some great tutorials available.
the code would be

if(lives == 0)
{
//display game over screen
}

but I guess you could work that our for yourself :slight_smile:

all the best with your game