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Hello, this will probably be a very easy question to solve, so forgive me for asking. I'm working on getting my player to respawn after dying. Currently I'm doing this by using

ig.game.loadLevelDeferred( LevelTest );

This works fine, but the issue is that this would only work for one particular level. I was wondering how I would make it so that depending on what level the player died in would be the level that is reset.

I take it I would somehow have to assign a variable whenever a level is loaded and then use something like:

ig.game.loadLevelDeferred( this.currentLevel );

But I'm not sure how to do that exactly. Any help would be much appreciated, as always.

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me.

in your main game, override loadLevel and have it set currentLevel before passing on to the parent method:

Main = ig.Game.extend({
    
    // ...

    loadLevel: function (level) {
        this.currentLevel = level;
        this.parent(level);
    },

    // ...
});

The trick to understand is that loadLevelDeferred just waits until the current iteration through all entity update and draw functions for the current frame have completed, then calls ig.game.loadLevel();

Having that above, you should now be able to call

this.loadLevelDeferred(this.currentLevel); 
// or this is the same, if you're not calling from your game class:
ig.game.loadLevelDeferred(this.currentLevel);

Hmm not sure why, but that didn't work... Here's what I've done:

main.js:

init: function() {
//etc

this.loadLevel( LevelTest );
},
		
loadLevel: function( level ) {
    this.currentLevel = level;
    this.parent( level );
//etc

player.js:

  check: function( other ) {
  //etc
	    else {
		ig.game.loadLevelDeferred(this.currentLevel);
	  }
	  
	  
    },

Scoping issue...

In player.js, EntityPlayer doesn't have an instance for "this.currentLevel". that should be:

ig.game.loadLevelDeferred(ig.game.currentLevel);

I thought that was the issue, just didn't know I could use ig.game. to fix it. Thanks for the help!