Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Completing the damage reports
Our last step in creating the damage report will be to add one line of code to the
ChangeBar()
function:
HasChanged = true;
Setting this to
true
will allow us to run the
ChangeBar()
function again. We use
the
bool
variable so that the
ChangeBar()
function doesn't continually run in the
Update()
function. If we didn't use the
bool
variable, our
currentHealth
would
run down past zero and the scale of our health bar would be in the negative.
Creating 3D name tags
The name tag is what will be used to show the player what the enemy's name and
level is. To create it, we'll perform similar steps as we did while creating the damage
reports. Our first step is to add a few variables:
public string Name = "Skeleton Warrior";
public int Level = 1;
public TextMesh NameTag;
We set all our variables here to
public
so that we can access them later. The
Name
string is the enemy's name, the
Level
integer is the enemy's level, and
TextMesh
NameTag
is the object we use to represent the previous two variables.
Next, we will create a new function, which we will use to set the name tag. Add this
function to the bottom of your script:
void SetNameTag()
{
NameTag.text = Level + " " + Name;
}
