How to reset lives after losing?

Questions & Answers
1

I am making a game. There is a main menu, first level and gameover scene. When you lose all your lives the gameover screen shows up. After a certain amount of time the gameover screen changes to the main menu. From the main menu the first level can be accessed. If I play the game, the transitions all work but if i go to the first level after losing all lives and going back to the main menu the gameover scene starts playing. How can I change the game so that it resets the lives after you lose?

Health script:

var health1 : Texture2D; //one live left

var health2 : Texture2D; //two lives left var health3 : Texture2D; //full health

static var LIVES = 3;

function Update () { switch(LIVES) { case 3: guiTexture.texture = health3; break;

    case 2:
        guiTexture.texture = health2;
    break;

    case 1:
        guiTexture.texture = health1;
    break;

    case 0:
        Application.LoadLevel (2);
    break;
}

}

Die script:

private var dead = false;

private var timeSinceLastCollision = 0;

function OnControllerColliderHit(hit : ControllerColliderHit) { if(hit.gameObject.tag == "Finish" && timeSinceLastCollision <= 0) { dead = true; //subtract life here Health.LIVES -=1; timeSinceLastCollision = 5; //Wait at least 5 seconds between collisions } timeSinceLastCollision -= Time.deltaTime; }

function LateUpdate() { if(dead) { transform.position = Vector3(2,6.5,2); gameObject.Find("Main Camera").transform.position = Vector3(0,0,0); dead = false; } }

2

The problem is that you are using a static variable to hold the lives:

static var LIVES = 3;

It gets set once, when the script is created.

One alternative that allows you to keep it static is to reset it to three from the main menu when a player clicks "start game".

Just add a line:

ScriptName.LIVES = 3;

to the button event.

3

Use OnLevelWasLoadedlike this:

 function OnLevelWasLoaded (level : int) {
        if (level == 2) {
            LIVES = 3;
        }
    }

Hope this helps!