(Solved!) Code For Death Menu-Need Help

Hello,everyone.
I am trying to make a death menu(that appears after you die) and have almost succeeded but there's one problem.
I've made a Text saying "You died!" and two buttons,one is restart and the other is Quit to main menu.
I want to make it so that when you press "Restart" the level restarts,my points get reset to 0 and my ball(player) goes to the start location where it spawns normally.

The quit to main menu button works,but upon pressing restart I get an error:

"NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
DeathMenu.RestartGame () (at Assets/Scripts/DeathMenu.cs:13)"

Here is my Death Menu script:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class DeathMenu : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     void Start ()
7.     {
8.  
9.     }
10.  
11.     public void RestartGame()
12.     {
13.         FindObjectOfType<PlayerController> ().Reset ();
14.     }
15.  
16.     public void QuitToMain()
17.     {
18.         Application.LoadLevel("MainMenu");
19.     }
20. }

And here is my PlayerController script(all though I should rename it,because it is in the player and used for it's movement but also for other things):

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5. public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
6.    
7.     public float speed;
8.     public Text CountText;
9.     public static int count;
10.     public Text WinText;
11.     public AudioClip[] audioClip;
12.     public PlayerController ThePlayer;
13.     private Vector3 StartPosition;
14.     private Quaternion StartRotation;
15.     public DeathMenu TheDeathScreen;
16.     public Text tip;
17.  
18.     void Awake ()
19.     {
20.     }
21.  
22.     void Start ()
23.     {
24.         count = 0;
25.         SetCountText ();
26.         StartPosition = transform.position;
27.         StartRotation = transform.rotation;
28.     }
29.     void FixedUpdate ()
30.     {
31.         float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal");
32.         float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis ("Vertical");
33.  
34.         Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
35.  
36.         GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce  (movement * speed);
37.  
38.     }  
39.     public void Reset ()
40.     {
41.         count = 0;
42.         ThePlayer.transform.position = StartPosition;
43.         TheDeathScreen.gameObject.SetActive (false);
44.         ThePlayer.gameObject.SetActive (true);
45.     }
46.  
47.  
48.     public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
49.     {
50.            if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("PickUp")) {
51.  
52.             PlaySound (1);
53.             other.gameObject.SetActive (false);
54.             count = count + 1;
55.             SetCountText ();
56.             }
57.  
58.         if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("Wall"))
59.         {
60.             PlaySound (0);
61.             other.gameObject.SetActive (false);
62.             count = count - 1;
63.             SetCountText ();
64.         }
65.     }
66.  
67.     public void PlaySound(int clip)
68.     {
69.         GetComponent<AudioSource>().clip = audioClip[clip];
70.         GetComponent<AudioSource>().Play ();
71.  
72.     }
73.     public void SetCountText ()
74.     {
75.  
76.         CountText.text = "Points: " + count.ToString ();
77.         if (count >= 6)
78.         {
79.             //Application.LoadLevel ("Level2");
80.             Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel + 1);
81.         }
82.         if (count <= -2)
83.         {
84.             ThePlayer.gameObject.SetActive (false);
85.             TheDeathScreen.gameObject.SetActive (true);
86.             tip.gameObject.SetActive (false);
87.         }
88.     }
89.     /*void MinusCountLose ()
90.     {
91.         if (count <=-2)
92.         {
93.             ThePlayer.gameObject.SetActive (false);
94.             TheDeathScreen.gameObject.SetActive (true);
95.         }
96.     } */
97. }
98.  
99.  

Thank you,in advance

 

try this:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class DeathMenu : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     void Start ()
7.     {
8.        
9.     }
10.    
11.     public void RestartGame()
12.     {
13.         PlayerController thePlayer  = FindObjectOfType(typeof(PlayerController)) as PlayerController;
14.         thePlayer.Reset();
15.  
16.     }
17.    
18.     public void QuitToMain()
19.     {
20.         Application.LoadLevel("MainMenu");
21.     }
22. }

 

Hmm..nope..Still getting the same error

 

you destroy the player when die?

 

Yes,he should be destroyed upon dying.Collecting two cylinders kills you,because one cylinder is -1 point,and -2 points or even less destroys the player and makes you lose and gives the "Death screen".As I said,I want the restart button to work.

 

If you are totally resetting everything when the player dies just reload that scene.

I think it is something like
Application.LoadLevel(Application.LoadedLevel);

 

Wow,thank you!Such a simple solution,how stupid of me not to think of that!Thank you
P.S. It's loadedLevel

 

No worries, I use it all the time when I'm prototyping so I don't need gui etc at the early stages.

 

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. public class DeathMenu : MonoBehaviour
4. {
5.     void Start ()
6.     {
7.     }
8.     public void RestartGame()
9.     {
10.         FindObjectOfType<PlayerController> ().Reset ();
11.     }
12.     public void QuitToMain(int level)
13.     {
14.         Application.LoadLevel(level);
15.     }
16. }

Just for easier use, try using this code instead of hardcoding in the level