Hi Folks, I am trying to restart the game upon completing a level, I was wonder what are the things like entites that needs to be reset?

like for entity there is the following is there something like this for panel?


Thanks!

Those entities which has no own global entity pointer assigned, are not required to be removed by ent_remove/ptr_remove, they are cleared by level_load().

If a global entity pointer is assigned, you should remove it, and set to NULL, like this:



this way when you load the level again, you can create it again safely.

the same is valid for created panels.

just do it like this code:

...
ptr_remove(ent);
ent = NULL;

Thank you for all the suggestion, 1 more thing is regarding the timer, it seems like everytime I restart the game there seems to be another thread in the schedule list.

Like an example below, saying I have a loop to spawn enemies, so by right the enemy will spawn everytime when respawnTime reach 0. but after I restart the game, it will spawn before reaching 0, it felt as there were another thread behind.

var respawnTime = -1;

while(!gameOverFlag)
{
respawnTime -= time_step;
showTimeOnScreen = respawnTime;

if(respawnTime <= 0)
{
respawnTime = 200;
}

wait(1);
}

So my question here now is, if it is possible to clear the threads in the schedule list when I restart the game?

Thanks for reading.

better code like this,you can save your object`s addrsss, and remove them .
//save your object address;
int point[10];

int i;
for(i=0;i<3;i++)
{
ENTITY* e = ent_create("resourceflod//baul_armed.mdl",vector(0,100*i,0),NULL);
point[i] = e;
}

//clear your scene now
for(i=0;i<3;i++)
{
ptr_remove(point[i]);
wait(24);
}