Does anyone have a nice way of doing health bars over mob icons? I'm finding it hard to figure a way of doing it that will still allow me to use overlays for clothes and equipment. Am I correct in my assumptions that 1. an overlay has to have the same icon_state as the mob and 2. it's not possible to reference an overlay, unless you know it's image name. I would like all other mobs to be able to see the bar. I will only implement this if it is relatively CPU light (I don't want to do things with image()).
All comments welcome, Thanks.
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 Oct 5 2000, 5:19 am
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Does anyone have a nice way of doing health bars over mob icons? I'm finding it hard to figure a way of doing it that will still allow me to use overlays for clothes and equipment. Am I correct in my assumptions that 1. an overlay has to have the same icon_state as the mob and 2. it's not possible to reference an overlay, unless you know it's image name. I would like all other mobs to be able to see the bar. I will only implement this if it is relatively CPU light (I don't want to do things with image()). Hmm. This *might* work... mob var/obj/powerOverlay New() . = ..() powerOverlay = new() proc/SetPower(myValue) overlays -= powerOverlay powerOverlay.icon = 'power.dmi' powerOverlay.icon_state = num2text(myValue) overlays += powerOverlay I'm not sure, though, whether its icon state would change automatically when the mob's does. It's worth a try. | |
All comments welcome, Thanks. I'm not sure, though, whether its icon state would change automatically when the mob's does. It's worth a try. I shouldn't change, unless the meter has similar icon_states that the object has (like "fighting"). Incidentally (I like that word... I've used it three times over the past two days =), the meter effect could be accomplished with a simple image() that deletes itself and redisplays itself. For example (as always, pseudo-code; take with a horseshoe hanging over your door, a rabbit's foot in your pocket, and a pile of salt behind you): #define number_of_icon_states 30 //number of icon states in your meter (not including the zero "0" state) #define meter_refresh_time 6 //how long you want to wait before it updates the overlay mob health = 50 max_health = 100 obj/health_bar health_bar_overlay New() ..() Tick() proc/Tick() del src.health_bar src.health_bar = new //I think this works... it should assume /obj del src.health_bar_overlay src.health_bar.icon_state = num2text(round((src.health/ src.max_health)*[number_of_icon_states]),1) //get a number from 0 to [number_of_icon_states] src.health_bar_overlay = image(src.health_bar,src) spawn([meter_refresh_time]) Tick() | |
The health bar question is a good one, which I'll leave to others to answer.
But I thought I'd mention an alternative: It actually works quite well to use icon tinting to indicate health. In Living & Dead, I make the icon more red for every 10% of health they lose -- this turned out to be quite effective.
Now it might be somewhat more complicated with clothing overlays and such.