How can I make my game wait a number of seconds before the player respawns?

Question

I want to add some particle effects for when I die so the player appears to explode upon death, but I am not totally sure how I can stop the player from respawning long enough for this effect to carry out. I currently have some code that just reloads the scene when you die, but I was fiddling with the idea of some way to make the script wait a number of second before executing the respawn method. I saw something in another post on the unity forums about a coroutine, but I am not sure how to make that work as I am pretty new to coding. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you put your "respawn" logic into some method, you can then call it delayed like this: Invoke("respawnMethodName", 5);, in this case a method named respawnMethodName will be called after 5 seconds.

You can find documentation on Invoke here.

Answer 2

I don't know how you implemented the respawn mechanic, but if you make it a separate function, you can just call an Invoke with a set amount of seconds so that the method will be called at a later time.

Example usage:

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
    void OnDestroy() {
        Invoke("RespawnPlayer", 10); //this will call the method after 10 seconds
    }

    void RespawnPlayer()
    {
        //input what you normally do when you respawn a player.
    }
}

If you don't destroy your player object, then you can just call the method right after the "player death" situation. It's essentially the same thing.