Trouble bringing player "back to life"

Hello all!

Having an issue bringing my player "back to life" after it is destroyed by enemy... I will start from the beginning... I'm making a platform game... Box sprite with the platform behavior, pinned to a graphic sprite of my design... Wasn't too hard getting that to work at all... Kudos to Scirra... Anyway here's the issue; I have a health variable(a hybrid design by yours truly and another person from the forum; can't remember the name <img src="smileys/smiley13.gif" border="0" align="middle" />) and the code looks like this:

(event)

System;Every Tick

(subevent)

System;HeroHealth <1

(action)

Health bar = Set animation to empty

Hero Box = Destroy

Player Sprite = Set animation to defeated (playing from the beginning)

Player Sprite = Set Y to (Blah,Blah)

System = Wait for 4.0 sec

Player Sprite = Flash for 2.0 sec

Player Sprite = Destroy

System = Subtract 1 from PlayerLives

Then I have a subevent attached for "disabling the keyboard" for the defeated animation... It's a triggered event BTW...

I started another string under that event:

(Triggered event) Player Sprite; On Destroyed

System = Restart Layout

System = Create object: Hero Box on layer 1; 83,390

So as you can tell, I'm pretty much lost at this point... lol! Nothing operates(after my player "dies"... sorry had to update that)the way I thought it would so I didn't bother going any further until I get some feedback... I f anyone has a clue of what I need to do in order to get my player's "2nd chance" to work properly, I'm all ears...

Do you have a CAPX ? As I think I may be able to help.

Did you reposition the player images an re pi it to the respawned herobox ? Check that first..from the sounds of what you wrote you didnt do that...so you can't see where your player images are...hope that helps...

Is herohealth a global variable? If so, on restarting the layout it will still be less than one if you don't reset it first.

mystazsea

Sorry it took so long to reply; Had to work today... And yes sir, I did try the respawn player sprite with pin and still had "weird" results... I may have had the actions in the wrong places; not sure so I will give that another try...

LittleStain

I did not try that... I will give that a go as well... Appreciate the replies guys!

LittleStain

I just had a thought: If I reset the Global variables, I run into another issue... I don't want my "Player Score" "Player Lives" GV(s) being affected by the reset... There has to be a way to perform this task without resetting the GV(s), or resetting the layout and still subtract from "Player Lives" => respawn player sprite+player box with health full...

you only have to set the value of the health variable to what it should be after destroying player and before restarting layout.

LittleStain

.... "Well I feel like a genius... lol!" I had the Player Box and Player Sprite on the WRONG LAYER LOL!!! Thanks for the reply dude...

LittleStain

Ok I'm running into another issue... Things seem to working, but as I'm moving left in the game, my player sprite "has a duplicate" attached to it... So it looks as if I have "two" player sprites just overlapping one another... I'm not sure how I can fix this; also the score "doubles" on the layout reset... I think I can fix this with events so I'll try some combinations I thought of recently..

Well I seem to have remedied the Score duplicating it self by re-arranging some for the code... I think I'm good on that aspect, but the player sprite has a "copy" attached in the browser when the layout restarts... I have the hero box re-pinned to the player sprite(both objects have been "respawned" by the system Create event) so I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this problem... Hoping for a little help or insight on this... Thank you.

Is it possible you are using a container for the player and hero box? if so you only have to spawn one to get both.. spawning both will create duplicates.

LittleStain

OH..... I see... Hence setting container in the first place... Got it! Thank you sir, appreciate the reply :)