life bar?

[vincent]

how do you make a enemy have life

and whats the easiest way to make a life bar appear ontop of an enemys head when hit with a Projectile (bullet)

[Zabooza]

who do you mean have life?
do you mean hp?

[vincent]

like after a certain amount of hits the enemy gets destroyed
(a counter if you will. but visualy looks like a bar depleating)

[Zabooza]

ok, counters can be numbers, animations, hidden, and text.

Do you want the counter to be text or a scrolling bar?

[vincent]

a scrolling bar.

[Zabooza]

ok, do you know the basics of mmf2. like alterable values, alterable strings, etc?

[vincent]

no. only like basic counter stuff and global counters but not that stuff

[Zabooza]

ok can you tell me how your enemies get damaged?

[vincent]

start of frame
-set counter to 5

bullet colides with enemy
-negate 1 from counter
-destroy bullet

counter = 0
-enemy play animation death

animation death has finished
- destroy enemy


thats what i have for the life system but how do i impliment a health bar above the enemy

[Zabooza]

ok do this.
This may sound a little bit complicated but do it in the exact order i tell you.

Always: Set postion of counter to (wherever you want, probably somewhere above the enemy)

Start of frame: Set Alterable Value 1 of enemy to 5

Bullet Collides with enemy: Set Alterable Value 2 of enemy to (whatever the amount of hp it is decreased by)If alterable value 2 of enemy is greater than 0: Decrease counter by 1

If Alterable value 1 of enemy equals 0: destroy (dying animation plays automatically

Note: you will need to have the same number of counters as there are enemies. I am at school right now, so i cant test this, but most if not all of this should work