(Health bar) Remove lives properly

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Hey I tried to make a Health Bar, like the one in Tornado Twins video. (I also searched for other questions in here but no one matched my problem)

Anyway the thing is I got 3 lives and I want to loose 1 everytime I die like falling off the platform. I made some texture for the GUI, so 1 heart, 2 hearts, 3 hearts. But when I start I start at 2 lives (2 hearts) Instead of what should 3 and I dont loose any when I fall down to my “death” It looks like this

private var Dead = false;

function OnControllerColliderHit(hit: ControllerColliderHit)
{
   if(hit.gameObject.tag == "fallout")
   {
   	  Dead = true;
   	  //subtract life here
   	  HealthControl.LIVES -= 1;
   }

}

function LateUpdate()
{
    if(Dead)
    {
        transform.position = Vector3 (0,4,0);
        gameObject.Find("Main Camera").transform.position = Vector3(0,4,-10);
        Dead = false;
    }
}

@script RequireComponent(CharacterController)

This is in one of my scripts

 var health1 : Texture2D; //one life left
 var health2 : Texture2D; //two lives left
 var health3 : Texture2D; //full health
 
 static var LIVES = 3; 
 
 function Update ()
 {
    switch(LIVES)
    {
    	case 3:
            guiTexture.texture = health3;
        
        case 2:
        	guiTexture.texture = health2;
        break;
        
        case 3:
        	guiTexture.texture = health1;
        break;
        
        case 0:
        	//gameover script here
        break;
        
        }

And this is in the other

And here is how I put up the heart pictures

19058-healthbar.png

Any ideas? cheers

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You are missing the break after your case 3 as a result execution falls through and runs the case 2 code as well.

Your code is currently:

        case 3:
            guiTexture.texture = health3;
 
        case 2:
            guiTexture.texture = health2;
        break;

While it should be:

    case 3:
        guiTexture.texture = health3;
    break;

    case 2:
        guiTexture.texture = health2;
    break;