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Hensen Hopper
7 months ago

I've replaced the health text on the upper-left corner of the HUD with a healthbar!


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Imagine a heart sprite, which I'm gonna get to work on immediately after I post this, in place of that white square. The health bar depletes as Hensen looses health, pretty much as you might expect.

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It's also fully functional! I've updated the health section of the HUD manager script to, rather than change the text as it used to, re-size the health-bar rect to the player's current health ratiod to their health at the start of the game multiplied by the width of the health bar, which is a serialized field incase I want or need to change that later.

If you're wondering why I created a local variable for the player's current health, it's solely because it feels like a waste of complexity to have my code create a function frame for 5 different calls to playerController.GetHealth() that all return the same value.



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