Stringing togethor health, damage etc

[chartinboy]

I’ve been looking around online and doing all the tuts I can, but two hours later I think I might just need a hand.

So, on my character controller I have a health script which does two things, tells the character how much health he has, and displays it on the HUD.

Now lets say some dude comes along and hits our charater with something painful.
The script will be contained in him, such as how much damage he’s gonne do etc.

How do i make the character get damaged etc.

I will post my scripts if they are of use.

var barDisplay : float = 0;
var pos : Vector2 = new Vector2(20,40);
var size : Vector2 = new Vector2(60,20);
var progressBarEmpty : Texture2D;
var progressBarFull : Texture2D;
var playerhealth : float = 100;

function OnGUI()
{

// draw the background:
GUI.BeginGroup (new Rect (pos.x, pos.y, size.x, size.y));
GUI.Box (Rect (0,0, size.x, size.y),progressBarEmpty);

// draw the filled-in part:
GUI.BeginGroup (new Rect (0, 0, size.x * barDisplay, size.y));
GUI.Box (Rect (0,0, size.x, size.y),progressBarFull);
GUI.EndGroup ();

GUI.EndGroup ();

}

function Update()
{
// for this example, the bar display is linked to the current time,
// however you would set this value based on your desired display
// eg, the loading progress, the player’s health, or whatever.
barDisplay = playerhealth;
}

Thats the player health thing.

So, how do I make enemies actually lower that health. ( I already know how to make him die when health reaches zero, thats fine)

[Vicenti]

whateverobjectthatis.playerhealth

Get a reference to that thing that has playerhealth in it, either by GameObject.FindObjectOfType( ScriptName ) or some other way.