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[Thazzrill]

Hello guys i have a problem. I am making a sidescrolling shooter. Basicly the screen size is 640x480. You can go down and up and the plane moves it self. Anyway i want to make a HUD to show score, health and lives. But i don`t know how to do it. I have a player object. Anyway can anyone explain me in detail and not over code cuz i ve seen tutorials and i got confused can anyone tell me how to do it with drag and drop? Thanks in advance!

[FAAAEBS]

There are drag and drop actions called draw lives, draw health bar, and draw score. Then you use those and indicate the x and y coordinates of the place you want each thing to be. Its that simple. If you are not using the default health and score, you use the draw variable action to make it draw the health and score variables.

[Xbowman]

Hello guys i have a problem. I am making a sidescrolling shooter. Basicly the screen size is 640x480. You can go down and up and the plane moves it self. Anyway i want to make a HUD to show score, health and lives. But i don`t know how to do it. I have a player object. Anyway can anyone explain me in detail and not over code cuz i ve seen tutorials and i got confused can anyone tell me how to do it with drag and drop? Thanks in advance!

that's right what he said but u have to add the actions in the draw event, also make sure u don't add the draw event in a object with a sprite, if u do that, the object won't be seen.

[Thazzrill]

Hello guys i have a problem. I am making a sidescrolling shooter. Basicly the screen size is 640x480. You can go down and up and the plane moves it self. Anyway i want to make a HUD to show score, health and lives. But i don`t know how to do it. I have a player object. Anyway can anyone explain me in detail and not over code cuz i ve seen tutorials and i got confused can anyone tell me how to do it with drag and drop? Thanks in advance!

that's right what he said but u have to add the actions in the draw event, also make sure u don't add the draw event in a object with a sprite, if u do that, the object won't be seen.

Yh i knew all that but how can i do it that is why i made the thread?

[loverock125]

Create a new object and call it oHUD. Inside this object's draw event, draw your HUD using the drag-n-drop draw functions (Found in the Draw tab). You can use sprites, lines, texts, shapes, backgrounds and so on. Make sure you place the object inside your room when you are done.

Also, you might want to decrease this object's depth since you want the HUD to appear on top of everything else.

Edited by loverock125, 04 July 2012 - 12:44 PM.

[Terrified Virus]

Guys, you can add a sprite in the draw event without having it not seen. You need to include the function draw_sprite_ext.
This code would make the sprite draw in its current state:

draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,x,y,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha)

[bob_gmae]

i hope this works

/*
 the -32 is the length of the healthbar and the -2 is the heaight. 
the direction can be changed to any direction you want. its best to leave it as 
direction.the x_view and y_view is the view of the screen and will stay there no matter waht goes on 
*/
draw_healthbar(x_xview,y_yview,x_xview-32,y_yview-2,100,c_black,c_red,c_green,direction,1,1)

/* 
this code is to draw any image(sprite) on the screen at the second pixel to the right and buttom.
this can also be done with backgrounds.
*/
draw_sprite(sprite01,all,x_xview+2,y_yview+2)
draw_background(background01,x_xview+2,y_yview+2)

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