Health with cloned actors

[Zehper48]

Hey is there an easy way or even a way at all to make a healthbar spawn for and enemy clone actor for example, if i have a smiley actor called creator that creates actor enemy,but i want the enemy to only be destoryed after 5 hits from actor bullet, can i do that

[makslane]

Create a variable lives (Actor, integer).
Actor variables are not global, so, if you have a clone with lives = 3, you can have other with lives = 1.

[Zehper48]

do variables work like textNumbers
whats the code to make a variable go down if a bullet hits it

[makslane]

In a Collision event, put a script like this:

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lives--;
if(lives <= 0)
{
   //You are dead!
}

[Zehper48]

im trying to make a bad guy that i can clone but im not used to useing variables.
on actor "badguy" i added this to draw actor

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if(badguylives <=-1)
{
   DestroyActor("Event Actor");
}


then on collison with actor "redassultleft"

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badguylives - 1;

but actor "badguy" wont die

[Hedfone]

try, on create actor of enemy, something like:

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badguylives = //the desired number of shots to kill;

this might work but I'm god awful with coding so I'm not sure

[Zehper48]

ok i added that too but the bad guy wont be destroyed! i dont know what to do

[Hedfone]

think I found it,
on collision with redassaultleft the code SHOULD be

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badguylives -=1//updates every shot

or

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badguylives=badguylives-1;//updates every shot

not

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badguylives = -1;//simply tells the comp the value

the first and second one will update the health every shot. the third one tells the comp that you want the lives of the enemy to be -1 when the enemy collides on the bullet
and on that draw actor event, change

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if (badguylives <=-1)

to

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if (badguylives <=0)

REALLY hope this has helped. good luck

[Zehper48]

yes i got it working the bad guy dies! Thanks man for helping me you deserve a medal!!!!!
i changed the code from badguylives-1; to badguylives=badguylives-1; and it worked, now i can continue my game

[Hedfone]

Great
I'm happy I could help