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I have a health bar with 56 animations and I want it to reflect the health of the player. Here's my code:

Draw Actor -->healthbar
animpos = abs(((health / maxhealth) * 55) - 55)

the absolute value is there because the health bar is going the opposite direction it needs to.
I tried writing (health / maxhealth) as a float variable and replacing it with the float variable "floaty" but it still didn't work

like this

Draw Actor -->healthbar

float floaty
floaty = health / maxhealth
can anybody help me? It seems like this code should work.

see post blelow

floaty is a terrible name for a variable. Its too close to float.

I can see that you would get a division by zero error with that, possibly. Is that the problem?

Multiplication can take the place of division thus avoiding a division by zero error. if you wanted to divide by 4, for instance, you can multiply by 0.25.

If health is an integer, then it will do an integer division, so the result is cast to an integer. If you use (double)health, health will be cast to a real number first, fixing the problem:

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animpos = abs((((double)health / maxhealth) * 55) - 55);

I think the problem is that you are trying to assing a real value to animpos (which is an integer). To fix this, try add either floor() or ceil() to your function to truncate your vale to the nearest integer.

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animpos = floor(abs(((health / maxhealth) * 55) - 55));

I think you should also consider what dillodude has mention as well, although I do beleive it is possible without the pointer specifier.

That's all!

-- Pyro

Thanks a lot, guys, it worked... I was getting really frustrated with it, but i put in your code and it worked fine.

I'm curious, did flooring your value help? I had that problem in the past as well and that's how I fixed it.