Player Healthbar

[ghost]

From discussions on Discord, we have been thinking about having a "number of hits" healthbar.

A healthbar which can handle up to five hits can be represented as

And after 2 hits

Healthbar component configuration:

• Size of healthbar
• Placement?
• Color - for multiple players

Reference https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/HOWTO-UICreateFromScripting.html

Further discussion:

• Size of Player's healthbar
• Can the player increase their max health during the game
• Can the player recover their health during levels
• Does the healthbar reset to max after each level
• Look and feel of healthbar, animations
• Boss healthbar, if they will have one
• Will all hits count the same, some hits taking up 2 segments instead of 1

[ghost]

Also from Discord discussions. In shmups, the Player avoids getting hit at all, so things like health pickups may be crossed off. Or healing drones? That's a cool idea though

For bosses I imagine won't have a healthbar like the Player's (not sure how that can be represented nicely since the boss is going to take so much more damage).

[flip40]

Shmups I have played actually never show a boss healthbar. Instead they imply the bosses relative health in a variety of ways. In Aegis wing, the boss would often start losing parts as its health was lowered (also turning reddish when close to death). Steredden I believe does a similar thing with the colors, with the boss turning orange/yellow tinted and then red.

This might be a way we can handle displaying their health to the user without having an extremely large health bar.

[ghost]

What do you think about how the Player Healthbar should look design-wise? Maybe will have to think about how the game window will look. Weapon, bullet, healthbar, points, etc

[flip40]

I feel like there was a discussion on the design somewhere but I can't for the life of me find where it was... oh well.

Mentioning #99 which merged the initial health bar, but will leave this open and move tags to discussion for future changes.

(removed high priority because #99 fulfills requirement of minimal working asset for initial level)

[ghost]

Believe it was only on Discord - something like Steredenn's design of healthbar

[ghost]

This is currently working for one player - need to be able to handle multiple players. What should be the maximum amount of players?

Will also need sprites for an empty health node and a full health node

[ghost]

now need sprites for this

[ghost]

Currently:

Want:

Remove need for player 1/2 offset, health node offset, and healthbar canvas prefab Add ability to adjust healthbar location