A health system with hearts

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Godot Version

4.2.1

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I am wondering how i could make a health system that uses hearts like ‘enter the gungeon’ or the classic zelda games? any help or advice would be much appreciated :slight_smile:

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For those of us who are not familiar with the heart system for those games, can you elaborate on what you’re trying to achieve?

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This would be my approach from the top of my head, you’d have to tweak it to make it work for your own needs:

  • I’d make sure the health variable is an int, so I have whole numbers.

  • Make sure there’s a signals that emits whenever the player health changes and passes the health value as an int.

  • For the UI I would not use a progress bar, but instead create an HBoxContainer.

  • Make a script with a function that takes an int value and instance that amount of heart icons inside the HBoxContainer.

  • Hook it up to the signal from the player’s health changing.

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