I Need Help With A Custom Health Bar

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#1

Okay, crossing my fingers that this is the last time I need to post about help with this game I am making. If you haven’t seen my last few posts, I am making a small game to practice my scripting skills. Today, I went to make a custom health bar, but soon got very stuck trying to script it. What I want it to do is for you to click a button at a certain time, and it shrinks 2 studs. I want it so that every time you click the GUI text button, the part shrinks 2 studs. Can you all help me with this? I have provided some pictures below. Thank you!

Here is the health bar
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Here it is in Studio
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If you need any more pictures or explanation, just ask! Thank you once again!

(If you couldn’t tell, I am not a professional scripter, just FYI)

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#2

Could we see your script? I wanna know what’s wrong with the script

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#3

If you try to code the script we can help you :slight_smile: But you haven’t provided any yet.

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#4

Okay. I do not have much right now, I mostly just need a script but if you come up with one, here is what it would be going into.

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That is what the script would be going into. I basically need a script so that the health bar can shrink 2 studs when you click the Text Button at a certain point.

#5

I haven’t really made that much of a script for the bar, but I have made the script I am implementing the other script into. (Pictured in my latest reply)

#6

Wait are you asking for a script ?

#7

Pretty much. I am not really a great scripter, so I really need all the help that I can get. Even some hints to how I could accomplish this would be nice. This is all a learning thing for me.

#8

I believe you could place the red part of the bar inside the container for the bar, make sure the container has ClipsDescendants enabled, and just tween the red bar a certain distance to the left based on when the button is clicked.

#9

A custom health bar should be a GUI generally. Specifically you should use a Billboard Gui (not a part)

Inside the billboard gui you probably want a frame, and that frame will represent the health. You can then use basic math in order to change the size

Example

local root = script.Parent.Parent 
local clickDetector = script.Parent -- For input
local gui = root .Parent.BillboardGui -- Billboard gui
local healthBar = gui.HealthBar -- Frame

local health = 100 
local maxHealth = 100
local damage = 5

clickDetector.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
   health -= damage
   healthBar.Size = Udim2.new(health / maxHealth, 0, 1, 0)
   -- Color effects or whatever
end)
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#10

Thank you for the help! It isn’t exactly a health bar though. I honestly just need a script that will take 2 studs off a part and will repeat that every time you click the text button. Thank you though!

#11

Ah ok, well in that case just use something like this

local part = workspace.Part
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
   part.Size = part.Size - Vector3.new(0,2,0) -- x,y,z 
end)
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