unity respawn after delay

Question

I'm trying to respawn an object at "x" amount of time however when i use yield and startcourutine it causes a lot of errors and mistakes in my code. and instead of destroying i want to hide the object and enable it again when i respawn it after the delay. how is this possible if i have arrays?

Answer 1

For a direct respawn on the same position you can do this:

public class CrateCrash : MonoBehaviour
{
    ...

    public void InitRespawn(GameObject toRespawn)
    {
        StartCoroutine(RespawnObject(toRespawn, 5.0f));
    }

    private IEnumerator RespawnObject(GameObject toRespawn, float delay)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        toRespawn.SetActive(true);
    }
}

The other class:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;


public class Crate : MonoBehaviour
{   
    CrateCrash manager;    

    public void OnMouseDown()
    { 
        manager.InitRespawn(gameObject);

        gameObject.SetActive(true);

    }

    public void SetManagerReference(CrateCrash managerRef)
    {
        manager = managerRef;
    }    
}