Node Respawn Script?

Questions & Answers
1

Sorta new to scripting (can read a script and understand it, but unsure of how to make one myself). I’m trying to write a script for nodes of minerals, such as Ore for mining in a game that you can gather from them.

I know I want to write something that would set the ore to be “alive” on awake, and then when it is gathered, or “killed”, destroy it, then start a respawn timer, and then when the respawn timer hits 0, make it spawn that object to a certain point again.

I figure my variables would look something like this:

var respawnTimer : float = 10;
var orePrefab : Transform;
var spawnPoint : Transform;
var oreDead : boolean = false;

… Now, I’m not sure where to start, or what it would look like, or if I’m even missing some key variables… any tips?

2

You could disable the collider of the ore node and hide the object until some time has expired.

You could do something like:

function OnOreDespawn() {
    renderer.enabled = false;
    collider.enabled = false;
    Invoke("OnOreRespawn", 60); // Respawn in 1 minute
}

function OnOreRespawn() {
    renderer.enabled = true;
    collider.enabled = true;       
}

But you’d need some code that calls OnOreDespawn after it has been “consumed”.