How to respawn player at screen entry position?

[mrtomftw]

Hello!

I'm making a game where you move freely from screen to screen, and upon death I would like the player to respawn at the point they entered the current screen, rather than the set player respawn point. How do I go about doing this? I've tried recording the X and Y position of the player as variables when the screen changes (LET A = X, LET B = Y) but cannot make the player sprite move to those coordinates when respawning.

So what's the actual solution?

[Minilop]

I haven't had chance to try this but perhaps have another variable, say C. i

in the game initialisation event

LET C = 0


in the Sprite Initialisation event:

IF TYPE 0
   IF C <> 0
      LET X = A
      LET B = Y
   ENDIF
ENDIF

then in your player event:

IF C = 0
   LET A = X
   LET B = Y
   LET C = 1
ENDIF

then in all your code that controls moving between screens ( screenup, screendown etc) also add LET C = 0

for example:
IF X >= RIGHTEDGE                   ; Is Player at the right edge of the screen?

   LET X = LEFTEDGE                  ; Move him to the left

   ADD 8 TO X                            ; increase his x pos a bit

   SCREENRIGHT                         ; switch to the screen on the right

   LET C = 0
   EXIT                                       ; end this event

ENDIF

Then in your KILL PLAYER event

LET C = 2


So when the player event first runs in a new screen, the x and y are stored in A and B and C is set to 1 so it doesnt run again
If the player is killed C is set to 2 so that when the screen reloads after the kill, x and Y are set to the A and B values we stored
If the player successfully moves between screens the players x and y are the values as set in your screen moving code,.

As I said, I haven't tried this so it might not work in your game, but I'd probably give it a go first and see how you get on.

[mrtomftw]

Yep, that does it. I knew I was on the right track with storing the coordinates. I just couldn't figure out how to get it to trigger on death. The KILL PLAYER code isn't even needed, it just does it regardless which is nice.

Thank you.

[Minilop]

Cool! glad that worked for you, yes reading through the code I can see the KILL PLAYER code is redundant. I look forward to seeing the finished game, good luck with your development!