Respawn script problem

I just started developing with Unity and began learning C# yesterday but I ran into a problem I can't seem to solve.

The problem is, if I test my game in Unity and I respawn I get my 3 lifes back.
But when I build the game, and I respawn I only get 2 lifes back.

Here is my code (not the full code) that I used for the respawning:

Code (CSharp):

1.     public int StarterLives; // 3
2.     public GameObject plr; // My Player
3.     public float maxVoidDist; // -10
4.     public Object respawnLevel; // Level01 (My first and only asset)
5.     public Text LivesHolder; // The text object (UI)
6.    
7.     private Vector3 respawnPoint; // This gets updated in Start() and becomes the first position of the player
8.     private string deadLevel; // This gets updated in Start() and becomes the name of my respawnlevel
9.     private int lives; // This gets updated in Start() and becomes StarterLives (3)
10.     private bool delay1 = false;
11.  
12.  
13.     void Update () {
14.         if ((plr.transform.position.y <= maxVoidDist) && (delay1.Equals(false)))
15.         {
16.             delay1 = true;
17.             if((lives - 1) <= 0)
18.             {
19.                 Application.LoadLevel(deadLevel);
20.                 lives = StarterLives + 1;
21.             } else
22.             {
23.                 plr.transform.position = respawnPoint;
24.             }
25.  
26.             lives = lives - 1;
27.             updateLives();
28.             delay1 = false;
29.         }
30.     }
31.  
32.     void updateLives()
33.     {
34.         LivesHolder.text = "Lives: " + lives;
35.     }

Full code:

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Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5. public class GameController : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7.     public int StarterLives;
8.     public GameObject plr;
9.     public float maxVoidDist;
10.     public Object respawnLevel;
11.     public Text LivesHolder;
12.    
13.     private Vector3 respawnPoint;
14.     private string deadLevel;
15.     private int lives;
16.     private bool delay1 = false;
17.  
18.     void Awake()
19.     {
20.         QualitySettings.vSyncCount = 1;
21.     }
22.  
23.     // Use this for initialization
24.     void Start () {
25.         respawnPoint = plr.transform.position;
26.         deadLevel = respawnLevel.name;
27.         lives = StarterLives;
28.         updateLives();
29.     }
30.    
31.     // Update is called once per frame
32.     void Update () {
33.         if ((plr.transform.position.y <= maxVoidDist) && (delay1.Equals(false)))
34.         {
35.             delay1 = true;
36.             if((lives - 1) <= 0)
37.             {
38.                 Application.LoadLevel(deadLevel);
39.                 lives = StarterLives + 1;
40.             } else
41.             {
42.                 plr.transform.position = respawnPoint;
43.             }
44.  
45.             lives = lives - 1;
46.             updateLives();
47.             delay1 = false;
48.         }
49.     }
50.  
51.     void updateLives()
52.     {
53.         LivesHolder.text = "Lives: " + lives;
54.     }
55. }
56.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

Why not just set lives to StarterLives when you reset the position to the respawnPoint. If that's what you want to happen, why not just make it happen?

 

I want to create more levels and the respawn should occur after you die.
But once all your lives are up, I want to completely restart the game.

 

I have been trying to fix it, and it seems like the problem is that some objects haven't been loaded once the game starts, is there any way to wait for an object to load?

 

why not do something like

start()
{
//lives is set to starter lives (which should be 3 in your inspector) make sure it is
lives = starterLives;
//now our lives is set to 3 (i assume this is what your start method looks like)
}
(im assuming this gets called when your player dies)
if(lives - 1 <=0)
{
//do stuff to restart your level
lives = starterLives; //resets your lives if the loaded level doesn't already
}
else //if your lives didn't drop to 0
{
//respawn your player
lives = lives -1; //or lives -= 1;
}

try this. im not really sure either why that's in the update method either but this may work..

 

That's what I did, or is there a difference?

 

my advice would be to break things down to the relevant parts rather than trying to handle everything in one place.

Have a lives script which handles the lives count and dying. It just need to keep track of the numbers and supports a "harm player" method of some sort, when the player loses a life throw a "respawn player event", when they lose all their lives throw a "player dead event".

Have a respawn script which just keeps a track of the respawn point, and has a listener for "respawn player events".

Have a collider which harms the player across the bottom of the level, so when it collides with the player (or more accurately the player collides with it) it can call the "harm player" function.

Have a gamecontroller which listens for "player dead events" and reloads the level or whatever.

 

Ok thanks, I already abandoned the project now.
It was my first and it was a pretty good learning opportunity.