How do I respawn a player after he dies?

I know how to reset the entire layout, but I can't figure out how to create an event where he spawns back to a safe spot. The game in question is a platformer. I also have instances where the player will be killed by enemies, and will need to spawn again. Any help would be so awesome

What i would do is to actually never destroy the player. When he is suppose to be "dead" i would take him out of the screen (set x,y), and when i want him to be back, i would set his x,y back to wherever i want to.

This also allows you to manage better the instance variables of the player, if he has them.

That sounds like a great idea. However, how do I set the x, y back to a safe point automatically? Or do I have to create safe points all across the map?

What i would do is make a sprite called CheckpointNode or something of that nature

Then maybe a instance variable on the player like "Lives" (give it a number of course for example 3)

and when the player is supposed die/lose a life you can subtract a life and set the X/Y to CheckpointNode.

If you have multiple CheckpointNodes you can make a variable to hold which checkpoint the player touched last so you can send him back to the right checkpoint.

I probably said more that I should have hope I helped

Haha how is that saying more than you should have? It helps quite a bit, thank you. I'll try to see how that would work.

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Also I figured people searching the forums might come across a similar issue and want to know how to do it.

Holy. Crap. This is freaking perfect. Thanks so much dude! And I imagine it would work just fine even if I gave the player unlimited lives, correct? i.e. getting rid of the "subtract 1 life from player" line?

yea if you want unlimited lives just remove the instance variable on the player and delete that line (for optimization purpose)

Wonderful. Thanks so much man. This is a great headstart for me.

Quick question again. When my player spawns at the checkpoints he freaks out and shakes violently before landing on the ground and becoming playable again. Have I done something wrong? I basically copied everything from your event sheet and wrote it in mine.

I think when he is teleported , the collision box of the player is in the ground , causing some undefined behavior , kinda like the same as if you were teleported in the ground , then physics would be all no way and something funky would happen, try moving the checkpoints around a bit to give some space for the player to respawn

Nope, it still does it regardless of where I place the node. On the ground, in the sky, under the ground, etc. I've moved it all over the place, but the player still freaks out for a second.

Wait, I figured something out. I originally had the player disabled, system wait for 1 second, spawn, and then player enabled. I took out the system wait and now the player spawns just fine, however, I need the system to wait for a second before spawning, so it looks smooth.

LoganJFord Preety neat. I was working on a solution to do just that in my game but yours is way cleaner than mine was.

swordofsolace hmm... can't you just hide the player on spawn for one second and then show him?