How to Place A Visible Health Bar On the Top Side of Screen

[gilberthyo]

Hey guys,

Was just wondering if you guys know how to place a visible health bar (not during battle mode) to the top left of the screen cuz I have been trying to figure this out for sometime and have been unable to solve this part through.

Here's a little diagram of what I intend to do below:-

(Note: the red shaded area is the position where I intend to place the health bar on)

 

[Kes]

This forum is for discussing general principles of designing game mechanics, it is not a place for asking straightforward "how to" questions which should be in the appropriate support forum.

I am, therefor, moving it to MV Support, based on what engine you sY you use.

 

[izyees]

you can use command event to show picture and update it every hp changes.

 

[Uthgard]

Isn't there a more generic way to do this? It would be great to be able to display variable specific gauges whenever the situation called for it--a remaining oxygen gauge for underwater dungeons, a morale gauge for sieges or a morality gauge for the status screen. I may be missing something obvious, because all of those seem like something I would make easy to add in an rpgmaker.

 

[Andar]

There is no such function in the default engine, but you can add Plugins/Scripts with that function.

They're usually called HUD-Plugins, please search for existing ones in the Plugin database.

But those are your only options: do it with parallel processes and pictures, or do it by scripts. The default engine doesn't have anything like that.

 

[ShadowDragon]

use SRD HudMaker plugin, which works nice on the map as well for in battle (if you make it there too).