Health issue

[.Blue Dwarf.]

I have a pygmy accountant with AI Bouapha and I gave him 128 max life but the health bar doesn't work right.
It seems like he gets hurt down to the Pygmy accountant's max life then the health bar begins to go down, very very quickly.

This is a problem because it gives a false sense of invincibility... Until you suddenly die.

Anyone know what might be wrong?

[cans]

did u set current life aswell?

[SpiderPumpkin]

All I can think of is to make sure the Effect setting its max Life is working properly (is it targeting the correct monster, does it really set max life and not current life?). I just tested this and it works fine for me.

[cans]

yes tell us the entire special, so we can find the problem

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

You have to set max and current life to 128, If you only set max, the bar will show the players max health but only contain the pygmy's life, where if you only set current the bar will remain full until the players life gets below that of the standard pygmy's life. Both are bad, you have to set them together

[.Blue Dwarf.]

Originally Posted by Ninja of Frozen Milk

You have to set max and current life to 128, If you only set max, the bar will show the players max health but only contain the pygmy's life, where if you only set current the bar will remain full until the players life gets below that of the standard pygmy's life. Both are bad, you have to set them together

Not if you only want them to have the Pygmy Accountants normal health... Unless if that actually wrecks it, I don't see how it would but...

Anyway, if I don't figure it out I'll post the special...

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

Ah, then you would set both to 30? or whatever it is... It doesn't matter, it should work with any whole number

[.Blue Dwarf.]

I think my problem is some stray special that does something to throw it off. Or maybe this just doesn't work:
Anyway, here's the special, maybe it has something wrong that I have overlooked:


If: 0 Pygmy accountant

Summon PA at X,Y
Change PA AI to Bouapha AI
Set MAX life of PA at anywhere to 128
Change PA at anywhere to good

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Keep in mind that triggers are done from top to bottom, so if what Ninja says is correct and you have to set Max life first before setting Current life, your Special's trigger list should be:

Summon PA at X,Y
Change PA at anywhere to good
Change PA AI to Bouapha AI
Set Max life of PA at Anywhere to 128
Set Current life of PA at Anywhere to 128

Setting Max life must come before setting Current life. This will update the Life Bar first to reflect a maximum of 128 hitpoints. Then, setting Current life heals you to 128 hitpoints. You won't see any visible changes on the bar because your Pygmy remained at 100% health throughout.

[SpiderPumpkin]

Originally Posted by Androgeos Exeunt

Setting Max life must come before setting Current life. This will update the Life Bar first to reflect a maximum of 128 hitpoints. Then, setting Current life heals you to 128 hitpoints. You won't see any visible changes on the bar because your Pygmy remained at 100% health throughout.

It doesn't matter at all if you set Max Life or Current Life first; a monster can have more HP than its "Max Life" (heck, before there was a Max Life effect, the way to make monsters have more HP was to make their HP exceed the limit of their health bar). Setting Max Life afterwards will still correct the life bar issue. (And besides, .Blue Dwarf. isn't even setting Current Life at all in that special.)

It seems like he gets hurt down to the Pygmy accountant's max life then the health bar begins to go down, very very quickly

This still makes it sound like it's setting the Current Life without setting the Max Life. The Special you posted, however, looks correct, so the problem must indeed be with some other "stray special" as you call it :\

EDIT: Tested the exact special .Blue Dwarf. posted, works perfectly.

[.Blue Dwarf.]

Well, I could have guessed that it worked perfectly. The special at the start of the level does the same thing and it works fine, but later when the special pops up again it doesn't quite work right...
(It's in there twice because the PA does die, but then comes back)

So, now I search for the stray special I guess. Thanks for the help confirming that my special works fine.

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

Hmm, I still think you need to set current for it to be full life though

[.Blue Dwarf.]

Originally Posted by Ninja of Frozen Milk

Hmm, I still think you need to set current for it to be full life though

But it doesn't have to be at full life, it just has to show the health bar correctly.
I don't care if he has one life or 128 life, just as long as the health bar displays it properly.

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

Ohhhhhh, OK. I get it, You want the life to display the max of 128 but only the PA's current life (30?) Ok. But what happens if you were to get healed by like a pizza though?

[SpiderPumpkin]

Originally Posted by Ninja Of Frozen Milk

But what happens if you were to get healed by like a pizza though?

The Pygmy Accountant would gain HP as long as they're not maxed out (at 128) yet.

Originally Posted by .Blue Dwarf.

(It's in there twice because the PA does die, but then comes back)

Mind explaining a bit more about that (how do you make him die, etc.)? The error might also be somewhere in there if the special works perfectly at the beginning but not when the Pygmy Accountant comes back. Anything involving player controlled monsters is always a little bit risky.

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

Originally Posted by SpiderPumpkin

The Pygmy Accountant would gain HP as long as they're not maxed out (at 128) yet.

Thats the problem, if he wanted it to stay at the PA original health, it would be healed past it.

[SpiderPumpkin]

Originally Posted by Ninja of Frozen Milk

Thats the problem, if he wanted it to stay at the PA original health, it would be healed past it.

Originally Posted by .Blue Dwarf.

I don't care if he has one life or 128 life, just as long as the health bar displays it properly.

He never said he wanted its life to remain at 25 (or lower) :p

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

True, but it would help if he stated his intentions

[AtkinsSJ]

I think it's reasonably clear that he simply wanted the player to look like a pygmy accountant.

[Ninja of Frozen Milk]

Yes, but if he wanted the player to be able to be healed past the PA's original health or have a max of 25 is important.