Respawn not working past 2nd respawn

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Hey all,

I'm attempting to respawn an object in it's original spot once it's destroyed. It seems to work the first time but it's not working past that. I see what's going on, for some reason the clone does not have the objects I've attached to the original objects script.

For a little context, I'm dragging this object onto a character. Once it hits him I want the object to be destroyed and a replacement to respawn in the objects original place.

Is there something I need to do to ensure the clones call these objects? I've attached my code below.

 public GameObject fishFood; //= GameObject.Find ("Food");
 public Transform fishFoodSpawn;
 public Vector2 spawnLocation = new Vector3 (-3.88f, 2.44f, 0f);
 private bool dragging = false;
 private float distance;

 

 void OnMouseDown()
 {
     distance = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, Camera.main.transform.position);
     dragging = true;
 }
 
 void OnMouseUp()
 {
     dragging = false;
 }
 
 void Update()
 {
     if (dragging)
     {
         Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
         Vector2 rayPoint = ray.GetPoint(distance);
         transform.position = rayPoint;
     }
 }

 // Destroy the food once it enters the bears mouth area
 void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D other)
 {
     if (other.tag == "Bear")
         Destroy (gameObject);

 }

 void OnDestroy() {
     Instantiate (fishFood, spawnLocation, Quaternion.identity);
 }

}

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Answer by Python_Regex1023 · Jun 11, 2016 at 02:18 PM

@maydaywray , Actually, since you don't have a set wait time between each respawn, a cleaner way would be to simply to move the transform of the your GameObject back to the spawn transform, like so

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class Example : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public Transform fishFoodSpawn;
     
     //Declare other variables
     
     //Put other functions here
     
     void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D other) {
         if(other.tag == "Bear")
             Respawn();
     }
     
     void Respawn () {
         gameObject.transform.position = fishFoodSpawn.position;
         Debug.Log("You Died");
     }
 }

I tested this and it seems to work for me, but in case you have a Rigidbody attached to this GameObject you may want to store a reference to said Rigidbody and then set velocity to 0. I hope this helps!

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