Reset Timer when a Powerup is picked by the Player.

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1

Hello,

I am not sure if I am doing this the correct way, I have a coroutine to spawn my powerup only when there is none on the map, what I am failing to achieve is to make the timer reset when a powerup is picked by the player (make it work a bit like a quake game, where once it’s picked up it will take fixed seconds to spawn again).

public class SpawnManagerHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject[] enemyPrefabs;
    public GameObject[] spawnPointsEnemies;
    public GameObject powerupPrefab;
    public GameObject[] spawnPointsPowerup;
 
    private float maxWait = 2f;
    private float minWait = 0.5f;
    private float randTimer;
 
    private int powerupTimer = 10;
 
    private int randIndex;
 
 
    private void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(SpawnTimerEnemies());
        StartCoroutine(SpawnPowerup());
    }
 
    IEnumerator SpawnTimerEnemies()
    {
        SetRandomValues();
        int enemyIndex = Random.Range(0, enemyPrefabs.Length);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(randTimer);
        Instantiate(enemyPrefabs[enemyIndex], spawnPointsEnemies[randIndex].transform.position, enemyPrefabs[enemyIndex].transform.rotation);
        StartCoroutine(SpawnTimerEnemies());
 
    }
    private void SetRandomValues()
    {
        randTimer = Random.Range(minWait, maxWait);
        randIndex = Random.Range(0, spawnPointsEnemies.Length);
    }
    IEnumerator SpawnPowerup()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(powerupTimer);
            if (GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Powerup").Length == 0)
            {
                Instantiate(powerupPrefab, spawnPointsPowerup[Random.Range(0, spawnPointsPowerup.Length)].transform.position, powerupPrefab.transform.rotation);
            }
 
        }
    }
}
2

by making theses changes.

    public IEnumerator SpawnPowerup()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(powerupTimer);
        Instantiate(powerupPrefab, spawnPointsPowerup[Random.Range(0, spawnPointsPowerup.Length)].transform.position, powerupPrefab.transform.rotation);
    }

and then once this coroutine is public I can call it from my player script when there is a trigger

        if (other.CompareTag("Powerup"))
        {
            hasPowerup = true;
            Destroy(other.gameObject);
            StartCoroutine(PowerupCountdownRoutine());
            StartCoroutine(spawnManager.SpawnPowerup());

        }