Health below zero but shows negative numbers

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1

Hi guys!

In my game I have 100 health and different enemies who deal different amounts of damage. The problem is that sometimes my health goes negative which I don’t want to have. Probably the problem is that I have an enemy who deals like 50 damage and my current health is 60 so it goes negative. That is the way I tried to fix it (it doesn’t do the job):

            health -= damage;
            currentHealth.text = health.ToString();
    
            if(health < 0)
            {
                health = 0;
            }
            if (health == 0)
            {
                Die();
            }

Die is basically setting the gameobject inactive. Any ideas?

I would be very grateful

Kind regards

2

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. The only problem here is your order of operations:

health -= damage;
if(health < 0)
{
	health = 0;
}
currentHealth.text = health.ToString();
if(health <= 0) // safer choice, regardless of setting it above
{
	Die();
}