Enemy Health Bars/Bosses??

[LostSoul54]

Are there any tutorials or help any one can give on adding health bars to ememies? Also what is the best way to make certain enemies more powerful? i.e. inflict more damage, take less damage to make bosses for levels. I have tried to figure it out, but I have decided I really need help.

Thanks in advance.

[Genesis F5]

Easy as 1, 2, 3:


Make a long horizontal bar, then turn it into a movie clip, give it the instance name "enemyhealth", and give it the actions:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){_x=100+(_width/2)}

Now, in the code above, I used "100". You have to change this to the _x place of your health bar.


Now, within your enemy/boss, put a simple hitTest, and then if it equals true, all you have to do then is put a piece of code like:

_root.enemyhealth._xscale-=5

or something like that. That should take care of the health bar.


If you want to get fancy, you can add dynamic text box health too, to get exact percentage.. like change the health bar code to this:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){_x=100+(_width/2);
_root.enemyhealtht=Math.round(_xscale)+"%"}

And remember, _root.enemyhealtht is the name that would be given to the text box for the enemy.


As for changing power and versitility of an enemy/boss, is is as simple as changing by how much of the _xscale you reduce.




-I hope that you find this useful




-genesis f5



*** sorry I had to write all of this, and I hope that you understand some of it. I would have just posted the link to a fla example, but I'm not on the one with all of my flash files .

[LostSoul54]

Thank you very much, I think I can figure it out from there. However, if you get a chance could you post the .fla? That would help me sort things out a little faster, but if not, thank you anyway.

This board is always a lot of help, couldn't live without it.

[ElyxiaElvenbright]

my way is very similar:

on my monster:

myhealth = 25;//current health
myMaxHealth = 25;//total i can have
healthPercent = myHealth - myMaxHealth * 100//turns into percent
_parent.myhealthBar._width = healthPercent

pretty easy.

El_Y:j3

[Genesis F5]

Posting the fla wouldn't make things go much quicker... but here it is anyways:


To do it, just hold the left arrow (why I chose this, I have no explanation )



http://flash__gen.tripod.com/healthbar.zip


COPY!!/PASTE!! LINK!



-hope this is of some use to you: Genesis f5

[magnetos]

why do you need a movie controller for?

i think you could put this code in one movie

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(Key.isDown(37)){_xscale-=5}_x=167.9+(_width/2);
_root.enemyhealtht=(_xscale)+"%"}

that should work too right?

[Genesis F5]

Well magnetos, I was showing the controller as the enemy... how it is used remotely as if it were within the enemy/boss.


-genesis f5



As for your code, yeah, that would work, just remember to put a ";" between the if key, and the part that tells it to subtract _width divided by 2 from the original _x.