Last time, I mentioned I had done some UI updates, but I didn't include anything to actually show what I had done.
Based on feedback, it seems like I should include some more visuals when it's appropriate, so here goes :)
This video shows a couple of different things:
- Currency and player health displayed as HUD elements.
- HUD elements updating in a "ticker" fashion -- quickly counting to the target value instead of snapping directly.
- Enemy healthbar.
- The enemy healthbar has an effect when damaged. It immediately displays the actual health, and additionally displays a depleting health indicator, where it (after a delay) gradually depletes from the previous health value to the new health value.
- Currency amount chosen at random, chosen from pre-defined min and max.
I spent more time implementing the tick functionality than I had wanted. Initially, I wanted something that worked for both ints and floats, but using C# in Unity, I couldn't get a single class to do what I wanted.
In C++ I would just have used a template class, but C#'s generic classes do not support arithmetic, which I would need.
In the end, I ended up creating just a single class for ints. If I need floats later on, I'll deal with that then, even if it means just duplicating the int class.
The same tick class drives both the currency/player health and the enemy healthbar drawing. For the HUD elements, I just use the ticking value directly, while on the enemy healthbars I use both the actual/target value and the currently ticking value.
The enemy healthbars are made up of 3 elements -- a black background/frame, a light green "filled" color, and a darker green used for "depleting" health.
It looked exactly like what I was aiming for, so happy with that. Given an eventual art pass, I might replace the single color with textures instead.
Next up: Turtle Shopa"c!
