Posts Tagged ‘health bars’

• By Rich

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  flixel, flixel power tools, health bars

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  Flixel Power Tools

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  FlxHealthBar added to Flixel Power Tools

  5th Apr 2011

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  Health bars are a commonly used feature in games. From little health bars floating over players / enemies heads, to bars in the UI / HUD. This class provides a really fast way to create them, and they are highly customisable. It features:

  • 3 different types of bar: Plain-colour filled, Gradient filled or Image filled
  • All fill types support alpha levels
  • Optional 1px border around the bar with configurable colour
  • The bar can fill in one of 3 directions: From left to right, right to left or from the inside out
  • Bars are associated with FlxSprites (its parent). When the health value of the parent changes, the bar updates automatically (within a given threshold limit)
  • Bar can be fixed on-screen, and supports scrollFactor
  • Bar can “float” with its parent at a given x/y offset from the parents origin

  //  Create a tiny 32x4 health bar that floats above the "wolf" sprite
  wolfHealth = new FlxHealthBar(wolf, 32, 4, 0, 100);
   
  //  Tells it to track the x/y position of the wolf FlxSprite but offset by -5px on Y
  wolfHealth.trackParent(0, -5);
  

  Visit the Flixel Power Tools page to see it in action in the Test Suite, and find the svn download details.