Confused with healthbar

UI
1

So, I created a basic little doo-dad for my Health/Mana/Experience/Level/Player portrait. (Yeah, it’s to same as all the other mmo’s, sue me D: ) lol. Anyhow, This is just for learning experience.

Curious as to how I would get a Health and Mana bar to fit into this, I keep hearing about textures… but, hoenstly… Can’t I just use Renderer.Material = Color.blue or something?

Anyhow, I have no idea what I’m doing on the GUI aspect, I’m completely passed making interfaces with boxes and buttons. Just want to get this done so I have something that actually looks cool on my project, and perhaps start other GUI projects based on what I’ve learned

2

How are those shapes being implemented right now? There are many ways to implement bars like that so what might help is if you post a few images showing how your design looks.

3

This is how my design looks, I know nothing about unity GUI… I’m just tossing this up in the top left, I would guess with a DrawTexture? I wanted the bars to go through that. Top being health, Mana being in the middle, and Experience being at the bottom.

4

You just got to setup your GUISkins, having styles specified so they reference the images on your disk.

Then you got to use GUI.Box-es iniside the OnGUI() method call to draw your stuff.

For instance, for the background (overal) image this would be:

public GUISkin YourSkin;
private Rect _rect = new Rect(10, 10, 250, 100);
    
void OnGUI() {
    GUI.skin = YourSkin;
    GUI.Box (rect, "", "your_style"); // "" for no content, "your_style" is the style name in your skin
}
5

Would you happen to know how to set the skin from within the script, as my current project I’m attempting to do everything without MonoBehaviour.

6

The above code should be the part of your MonoBehaviour script.

You should attach your skin file to the YourSkin variable from UnityEditor.

In your skin file you should create a custom style called “your_style”. Or you could modify one of the default styles - “box” for example - and not supply any style name. GUI.Box would then use the “box” style, GUI.Label would use the “label” style etc.