Adding health to an actor. Pick up items/health ammo etc.

Spaceface

Can anyone tell me how to create a health attribute for my actor?

I'd like to have a healthbar at the top that takes decreases each time an enemy attacks and increase when picking up health items eg. food.

Also how can I create items for my actor to pick up. for example. coins, food for health, poison.

Sorry for the loaded question.

jonmulcahy

there is a good section in the wiki on how to create a health bar:
http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_health_bar?s[]=health

as far as creating collectables that's easy. you just need to create an actor & attribute for each type, coin, food, poison. then in each actor create a rule:

Coins
when actor overlaps or collides with actor of type Player
change attribute game.Coins to game.Coins+1
destroy actor

Food:
when actor overlaps or collides with actor of type Player
change attribute game.Health to game.Health+1
destroy actor

Poison:
when actor overlaps or collides with actor of type Player
change attribute game.Health to game.Health-1
destroy actor

Make sure you use the expression editor to select the attributes or it won't work.

CodeMonkey

Adding another reference link:
http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_create_a_collectible_object