Like a pop up road barrier that is fully up and then slowly goes back into the ground.3 = bottom = the health bar is full on the top and depletes to 0 going towards the bottom.Like opening your blinds on a window, the entire bar slowly depletes upwards.2 = top = the health bar is full at the bottom and depletes to 0 going towards the top.1 = right = the health bar is full at the left side and depletes to 0 going towards the right.0 = left = the health bar is full at the right side and depletes to 0 going towards the left.direction is which way the health bar depletes.If mincol = red and maxcol = blue then middle of the health bar will be purple.Important note: As the progress goes up or down the health bar colors will change automatically with the middle of the health bar being a mix of the two colors chosen for mincol and maxcol.maxcol is the color at the beginning of the health bar when hp or progress percent reaches 100.

mincol is the color that the end of the health bar will be when hp or progress percent reaches 0.

This color will show when the health bar is not full, filling in the missing health bar part.

backcol is the background color of the square itself.

If this is an HP bar, it should be filled with the current percentage of how much health the player has left.

amount is how much of the bar should be filled.

This square will form the space for the health bar.

X2,Y2 is the end point for the bottom of the square.

X1,Y1 is the start point for the top of the square.

If you read my tutorial on What is a Room? then the first four parameters look familiar as they form the classic square.

So what do we have here really? Well from right to left: draw_healthbar(x1, y1, x2, y2, amount, backcol, mincol, maxcol, direction, showback, showborder)

The built-in GameMaker Studio 2 draw_healthbar function is very nice, easy and simple to use, the signature is: GameMaker Studio 2 has a built-in function for drawing health bars for you called: draw_healthbar which works incredibly well and is easy to implement but what about a fancy progress bar or health bar? Well, for that you need to draw it yourself worry not though, as I will show you how and then you can apply this to not just bars but for other images as well. Health bars (or HP Bars) are almost mandatory in any game, and even if it is not a traditional health bar these techniques will hold true for any bar that has positive or negative progress including Time based bars like those seen in Adventure Capitalist, Loading bars to let players know something is happening and what percent that something is on, Mana or Stamina bars and of course everyone’s favorite: Experience bars. GameMakerBlog Tutorials Drawing Health Bars

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