So yeah, I havn't done any sort of serious calculation in ages... and this is just frustrating me more than anything else.

What I have is this:

• A Dialog of 25 width, and 300 height.
  
• A unit which starts on 120 hitpoints (the maximum value can change over time)
  
• An item which increases current hitpoints by 25.
  

So, basically a health bar which represents my hero units currentl hitpoints.

This works perfectly fine when I am doing the following

• Events
  • Hero unit takes non-fatal any damage (from any effects)
    
• local variables
  • damage taken = real, default value 0.0
    
  • factor = real, default value 0.0
    
• Conditions (none)
  
• Actions
  • Set Variable (factor) = (300 / (Hero Unit's Maximum Life (Current))
    
  • Set Variable (damage taken) = ((Triggering Damage Amount) * Factor)
    
  • Dialog - set Health Bar size to (25, ((Height of Health Bar) - (Integer(damage taken)) for (All Players)
    

But, the problem arises when I want my Hero unit to be able to heal himself through a) items and b) sleeping/fountain type scenarios. Since there is no event for 'Unit takes Healing effect' - I tried using Unit Property Changes but this conflicts with the (already working) unit takes damage event.

Any hints, clues, tips?

Nevermind. I feel like an idiot now.

I engaged my brain properly to the problem and now I just do this:

• Events
  • Every 0.0 seconds of game time
    
• Actions
  • Set Factor = (Hero Unit's current hitpoints / 300)
    
  • set Health Bar size to (25, (Hero Unit's current hitpoints / Factor)
    

Still feel like an idiot.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Nov 2 2010, 2:51 pm by Cardinal.

Okay, I can redeem myself now...

set factor (real variable) == Unit Current hitpoints / Unit maximum hitpoints
set height of health bar == 300 * Factor

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