Adding a delay to respawn in a 2D Unity game

This tutorial continues on from the previous tutorials on setting up a fall detector, adding checkpoints, adding the ability to respawn the player, and adding a Level Manager to control respawning in a 2D game.

In this tutorial, we will use the Level Manager to control respawns and we will add a delay to respawns. Watch the video below and then scroll down for the sample code.

Sample code

Here is the sample C# code for the PlayerController script.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {

  public float speed = 5f;
  public float jumpSpeed = 8f;
  private float movement = 0f;
  private Rigidbody2D rigidBody;
  public Transform groundCheckPoint;
  public float groundCheckRadius;
  public LayerMask groundLayer;
  private bool isTouchingGround;
  private Animator playerAnimation;
  public Vector3 respawnPoint;
  public LevelManager gameLevelManager;

  // Use this for initialization
  void Start () {
    rigidBody = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ();
    playerAnimation = GetComponent<Animator> ();
    respawnPoint = transform.position;
    gameLevelManager = FindObjectOfType<LevelManager> ();
  }
  
  // Update is called once per frame
  void Update () {
    isTouchingGround = Physics2D.OverlapCircle (groundCheckPoint.position, groundCheckRadius, groundLayer);
    movement = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal");
    if (movement > 0f) {
      rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2 (movement * speed, rigidBody.velocity.y);
      transform.localScale = new Vector2(0.1483552f,0.1483552f);
    }
    else if (movement < 0f) {
      rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2 (movement * speed, rigidBody.velocity.y);
      transform.localScale = new Vector2(-0.1483552f,0.1483552f);
    } 
    else {
      rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2 (0,rigidBody.velocity.y);
    }

    if(Input.GetButtonDown ("Jump") && isTouchingGround){
      rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(rigidBody.velocity.x,jumpSpeed);
    }

    playerAnimation.SetFloat ("Speed", Mathf.Abs (rigidBody.velocity.x));
    playerAnimation.SetBool ("OnGround", isTouchingGround);
  }

  void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other){
    if (other.tag == "FallDetector") {
      gameLevelManager.Respawn();
    }
    if (other.tag == "Checkpoint") {
      respawnPoint = other.transform.position;
    }
  }
}

Here is the sample C# code for the LevelManager script.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class LevelManager : MonoBehaviour {
  public float respawnDelay;
  public PlayerController gamePlayer;

  // Use this for initialization
  void Start () {
    gamePlayer = FindObjectOfType<PlayerController> ();
  }
  
  // Update is called once per frame
  void Update () {
  
  }

  public void Respawn(){
    StartCoroutine ("RespawnCoroutine");
  }

  public IEnumerator RespawnCoroutine(){
    gamePlayer.gameObject.SetActive (false);
    yield return new WaitForSeconds (respawnDelay);
    gamePlayer.transform.position = gamePlayer.respawnPoint;
    gamePlayer.gameObject.SetActive (true);
  }

}

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