adding a health bar

hey guys ,

was wondering what to do to insert a health bar ,

so far I can only add a global variable then get the system to subtract from that number ....

i think a health bar looks a lot better .

can anybody suggest how to or

where to find the answer ?

thanx a lot >

Hey Carminie, I am new here but i have been programming for a few years. My suggestion is make a health bar image that has a set of animations that each are at a different point in the health bar. Then when you lose heath or gain health you can set the animation to a different frame. With this you can also incorporate an instance variable that represents the amount of health you have.

[|||||||||]- first frame

[|||||||| ] - second frame

[||||||   ] - third frame

..... - other frames

[        ] - empty health (dead)

there may be a better way or even a better way of explaining this.

sorry if this is not helpful.

You can get construct to change the width of a red (or any color you like) square sprite to match the players health.

I.E an event that every tick "set width to players.health"

Have a look at the space blaster game demo that's where I got the info from.

Hope this helps.

wow ! thank you for prompt reply guys !

i ll give it a shot maybe later today , maybe tomorrow

my g/f thinks i spend to much time "playing" games

and recording music .

thank God she s leaving for a week tomorrow

I m never going to get married !!

I ll update u guys asap

thank God she s leaving for a week tomorrow

I m never going to get married !!

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to piggyback of knight007au

create a small tick -> import tick as a tiled BG

create a variable for tick -> health

       set a value for health (whatever width you want i.e. 100)

system -> on start of layout -->

     tick -> set width to tick.health

     tick -> set variable health to tick.health (now the current value     of heath is stored)

sprite -> on collision -->

     tick -> set width to tick.health - 10 (or however much you want the health bar to be reduced by)

     tick -> set variable health to tick.health

tick -> health (less than or equal to) tick.width

     sprite -> destroy

there may be a simpler way, but this 1 is functional

injoy!

thank you very much boys n girls !!

i haven t had time to try all these nice things out yet

as it has been a hectic week

( yes I broke up with my g/f in the end so

no i m not going to get married )

sorry for bringing up personal life stuff in a forum that should only be dedicated to game making I guess

i ll let you guys know

a big thank you to everybody for taking your time to help

Hey Carminie, I am new here but i have been programming for a few years. My suggestion is make a health bar image that has a set of animations that each are at a different point in the health bar. Then when you lose heath or gain health you can set the animation to a different frame. With this you can also incorporate an instance variable that represents the amount of health you have.

[|||||||||]- first frame

[|||||||| ] - second frame

[||||||   ] - third frame

..... - other frames

[        ] - empty health (dead)

there may be a better way or even a better way of explaining this.

sorry if this is not helpful.

I like this idea. Expanding upon it, I'm wondering to set the full health bar as the sprite. Then set each different health % as a seperate animation.

Then as the instance variable changes (sprite takes damage) have it call the corresponding animation.

Example:

health(instance variable)= 10 then set health (sprite) animation to 100percent

health = 6 then set animation to 60percent