Healthbar for targeted monster

[amv2k9]

Something I've wanted to do in a mod for quite some time is have a healthbar printed to the screen when you're aiming a weapon at an enemy. I've tried studying jpalomo's JPHUD to figure out how, but since I'm all thumbs when it comes to ACS, I didn't get anywhere.

This was the primary reason for me suggesting what became [wiki]GetSpawnHealth[/wiki]. I know that the activator for the script needs to be set to the target (as a weapon will be calling the script), but what equation should I use to determine target's current health out of max health? I can't just divide the former by the latter, because that returns a number smaller than 1, and thus it'll be rounded up, right?

[Blue Shadow]

Here is a basic demo that displays "enemy" health (not bar*):

enemy_hp_bar.pk3

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I haven't experimented with creating bars in ACS. If your ultimate goal is to do the drawing of bars in SBARINFO, I can adjust the demo to do just that.

[amv2k9]

If your ultimate goal is to do the drawing of bars in SBARINFO, I can adjust the demo to do just that.

Actually my intention was to have it render through a weapon's Flash state, like this:

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Flash_TargetHP:
 TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(CallACS("CheckTargetHP", 0, 0, 0)>=100,"TargetHPMax")
 TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(CallACS("CheckTargetHP", 0, 0, 0)>=90,"TargetHP90")
 ...
TargetHPMax:
 H100 A 1
 Goto LightDone
TargetHP90:
 H090 A 1
 Goto LightDone

But hopefully I can figure it out.

[kodi]

There are at least a couple of ways you can do it. Not sure whether an ACS loop with SETACTIVATORTOTARGET and a class check or a custom hitscan attack like I'm using here (to be able to angle it) is the most performance-efficient.

[Blue Shadow]

Actually my intention was to have it render through a weapon's Flash state

Curious, why through a weapon, instead of more suitable solutions like ACS or SBARINFO?

[T_Silverwolf]

There are at least a couple of ways you can do it. Not sure whether an ACS loop with SETACTIVATORTOTARGET and a class check or a custom hitscan attack like I'm using here (to be able to angle it) is the most performance-efficient.

I'd actually be quite interested in this, is there a demo out there somewhere?

[cocka]

Hi!

I think this would be an initial try from me:

monsternamehealth.wad

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Just use it as you wish.

[amv2k9]

Thanks for all your help, BlueShadow & cocka!

[kodi]

@T_Silverwolf
It's part of a bigger system yet to be released. The hp/class name thing was just for testing purposes but should be easy to recreate.

@amv2k9
That's a hella sweet looking hud man!

[T_Silverwolf]

@T_Silverwolf
It's part of a bigger system yet to be released. The hp/class name thing was just for testing purposes but should be easy to recreate.

@amv2k9
That's a hella sweet looking hud man!

Wow, nice. O_o I'm trying to do something vaguely similar (though not a point and click style thing) I guess I'll have to keep digging, scripting really isn't my strongest suit.