[GM]Custom Game Maker Health Bar Options

[HeroOfHyla]

Custom Game Maker Health Bar

We're going to be making a custom healthbar for gamemaker. Many people find the default bar very tacky, so I came up with a new method that is similar to health in fire emblem.

Here's the sprites we'll need for the game:

The character:


The Health Icon:


An enemy:


And a powerup:

(You can tell I didn't work very hard on the graphics)

Make objects for the hero, the enemy, the powerup, and a blank object, which I called objController

First, let's make the hero movable.

Make keyboard triggers for Up, left, down, and right.
For up, tell the object to move to a specified position, and set the y relative to -4
Use this same theory for all of the other directions (more info and different methods can be found in my Game Maker Movement Types tutorial).

Now go over to the objController, and make a Create trigger. Set the health to whatever you want. I set mine to 20.
Now make a Draw trigger. Set 2 variables (I called mine varHPx and varHPy) to the coordinates where you want the first HP icon to be drawn.
Make a repeat event with the number of times "health".
Use the Triangle icons to create a group under the repeat.
Now, use the Draw Sprite command and draw the HP icon at varHPx and varHPy.
Then, add to varHPx. I added 7, so there would be a small gap between each icon
So, it should look like this after you've done everything:


Now, go to the hero object. Make a collision with enemy trigger. Tell it to destroy the enemy and reduce health by one.
Repeat for the powerup collision, but increasing health by one.

Test it out, and it should work!

[Freedom]

I like the Idea...I have never thought you can do that...Nice job Hero...Your both a mod and a great game maker user...

[HeroOfHyla]

Why thank you!

Another similar thing you could do with this is using image_xscale and making the bar longer or shorter based on health.

[Freedom]

I see...Got anymore...I'm using game maker when I feel bored and sometimes when I feel trying to experiment with it but I'm having a hard time to do so...Anyways why not make more tutorials?

[HeroOfHyla]

I'm not sure what my next tutorial will be. It might be about rm style message boxes in GM.