Display health bar?

#1 Ok I solved this thanks to Greg Lincoln!

Checkout this resource if you have similiar problem!

#2 If you wanted to make a *bar* instead of text, you could use a square bitmap, with horizontal gradient color, if you wanted to get fancy. Then create a staticSprite out of it and then set the X size during the game to scale it into a rectangular bar.

%healthBarSprite.setSizeX( %player.health );

Also
check out this resource for making fancier bitmap text-base sprites

#3 Thanks Alex! I will need to create real bar, right now I am prototyping so I make all this things simple.

#4 I can't get this to work. I made a rectangle. I can see it while I'm playing the game, but I can't get it to resize. It's an image map. I gave it a name "lbar" and a class "lifebar". I gave the player a dynamic field, LIFE, and that decreases just fine, but I can't get the lifebar to resize as the player's LIFE decreases. Please help.

function player::modifyLife(%this)
{
%this.life -= getRandom(20);

if(%this.life > 100)
{
%this.life = 100;
} else if (%this.life < 0)
{
%this.explode();
}
%lifebar.setSizeX(%this.life);
}

#5 @Jeffrey -- I don't know if you already figured this out or not, but just take out that '%' in front of lifebar. Like this:

function player::modifyLife(%this)
{
%this.life -= getRandom(20);

if(%this.life > 100)
{
%this.life = 100;
} else if (%this.life < 0)
{
%this.explode();
}
[b]lifebar.setSizeX(%this.life);[/b]
}

#6 You should use "lbar" instead of "lifebar", keeping in mind what Kevin Epps said.

If you want the bar to be a different size, you can use percents, instead of just using the value of %this.life.

#7 Oh yeah! Right!

Thanks, Kevin for clarifying that! :)

I totally forgot that he said that he gave it the name "lbar".

#8 Lol.

Hopefully Jeffrey figured it out, considering that his last post is from almost a year ago.