Multi-Layer Boss Health Bar

[+ Glasses 606]

What does it do?

Boss can now have a multi-layer health bar. Meaning it won’t just go to empty, the layers will deplete 1 by 1 until the bar is completely empty.

 

Author: Mr. Trivel

Name: Multi-Layer Boss Health Bar

Created: 2014-10-31

Version: 1.2b

 

Video:

Health bar design and art by Izu.

 

Instructions: 

Read instructions and customize the offsets.

 

Script: <Link: Github>

Blog: <Link: On blog>

Edited April 23, 2015 by Glasses

[Faye V. 52]

Hahaha, this is so great. I will be using this since YEA's enemies hp bar script doesn't have an option for bosses, it's the same for every enemy

 

Fun fact: the first boss in my game is called Izu xD i had no idea that someone was called like that lol

 

Like for you!

[+ Glasses 606]

Small code fixes and easier customization of Y position of the bar.

[RaythalosM 0]

Is the health bar compatible with all image sizes?

 

Also, is there a way to hide the bar until a switch is activated, so more cinematic battles are possible?

Edited November 8, 2014 by RaythalosM

[+ Glasses 606]

@RaythalosM,

Yup.

No. I could probably add that. I'll see about that.

[+ Glasses 606]

v1.2

Rewrote part of code.

Added switch to show/hide the boss hp bar.

[RaythalosM 0]

It seems the new version crashes with

every time I finish a battle without any bosses.

@bhpb_bars.each { |b|  b.dispose if b }

This was line 261.

 

Tested it on an empty project as well.

Edited November 11, 2014 by RaythalosM

[+ Glasses 606]

@RaythalosM,

Oh, woops. I forgot one if there.

Fixed, grab the latest version.

[RaythalosM 0]

Alright, thanks for the quick reply!

[+ DarthVollis 59]

Does this work with Falcao's Pearl ABS? Can you make a version that puts little circles under the HP Bar like in Kingdom Hearts so that each circle is a health bar? Each time one health bar is depleted it refills and one of the circles goes away.

[+ Glasses 606]

@DarthVollis,

Nope.

[+ DarthVollis 59]

Can you make a one that does?

[+ Glasses 606]

@DarthVollis,

That works with Falcao's Pearl ABS? Nope.

That has the circles Kingdom Hearts style? Nope.

[+ DarthVollis 59]

Okay, thanks anyway.

[Ninkoro 2]

Great script, there's just one thing I'd like to ask.

 

As it is, this script always sets up the HP bar so that bar_1 is on top, and the bars increase layering down depending on the boss' max bar count.

 

Could you show me how to modify your script so that bar_1 is always on bottom of the health bar, and the bars layer ontop of each other?

 

Thanks for reading!

[+ Glasses 606]

No idea why you'd want to modify the script, since you can just switch around the images so that bar 1 is the bar 5 now and so on.

 

But anyways,

    5.times { |time|
      @bhp_fill.push(Cache.system("boss_hp_bar#{5-time}"))
    }

[Ninkoro 2]

Sorry, i guess I didnt explain well enough. Your modification didn't acomplish what I wanted.

 

Alright, so there's 5 bar images.

 

If a boss has <boss: 1>, there bar is only 1

If <boss: 3>, then from top to bottom bar pics 3, 2, 1

If <boss: 5>, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

then it cycles back like normal.

 

It's like a sandwich I guess. new stuff always goes on top, but at bare minimum you could just eat the bottom piece of bread.

Edited April 21, 2015 by Ninkoro

[+ Glasses 606]

Oh, I think I know what you mean.

Disregard my last code then.

 

E.g. If boss has 6 bars, you want it to be 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and if boss has 4 bars, it has to be 4, 3, 2, 1, right?

If so,

      tmp.bitmap = $game_temp.bhp_fill[(@current_bar-bar)%5]

[Ninkoro 2]

Yeah exactly, and that's almost it.

 

Just one little thing, it skipped the bar_1 image and went directly to 2. For future reference to others, just -1 to the formula so it looks like (@current_bar-bar-1)

 

Thanks for all the help!

Edited April 21, 2015 by Ninkoro

[+ Glasses 606]

v1.2b

 

Small update. Boss bar can now be made hidden when boss dies instead of having to wait for battle to end.