Dynamic slider size with the new UI

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Hello, I'm quite new at Unity and programming and now I'm having problem at displaying a dynamic size HP Bar. What I want to achieve is a HP Bar that the length scales with the maximum HP variable (By script). These pictures should explain these more..

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These can be achieved by manually modifying the "Right" value in Rect Transform inspector. But through script I have no idea. I've tried modifying localscale values but come with no luck. Thank you.

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Answer by furibaito · Dec 27, 2014 at 06:03 AM

I've solved my problem, here is the solution if anyone else need it.

 public float PlayerMaxHP = 50;
 public GameObject HPSlider;
 
 void Start () 
 {
     RectTransform HPSliderRect= HPSlider.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
     HPSliderRect.sizeDelta = new Vector2(PlayerMaxHP, HPSliderRect.sizeDelta.y);
 }

The value that I need to change is .sizeDelta on the RectTransform component of the HPSlider gameobject.

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Answer 2

If I'm right the you want the HP slider to be the same size no matter how much HP you have so

HP = 200 HP bar size = ############## HP = 100 HP bar size = ##############

is that right?

If so this is what I do with my player health script:

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class PlayerHealth : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public static float maxHealth = 200;
     public static float curHealth = 100;
     public float restoreHealth = 0.5f;    // how much to restore health per second
     public GameObject HUDUICanvas;
     public GameObject HealthBar;
     public Slider HSlider;
 
     private string _loadedLevel;
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         HUDUICanvas = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("UI");
         HealthBar = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("HealthBar");
 
         HSlider = HealthBar.GetComponentInChildren<Slider>();
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         if (curHealth < maxHealth)
         {
             AdjustCurrentHealth(restoreHealth * Time.deltaTime);
         }
     }
 
 
 
     public void AdjustCurrentHealth(float adj)
     {
         curHealth += adj;
 
         if(curHealth < 0)
             curHealth=0;
 
         if(curHealth > maxHealth)
             curHealth = maxHealth;
 
         if(maxHealth < 1)
             maxHealth = 1;
 
         HSlider.value = (curHealth / maxHealth);
 
         if(curHealth == 0)
         {
             Debug.Log(" I'm dead.");
         }
     }
 }

The maxHealth and CurHealth can be any number, I then find the

 <slider>

component and store in HSlider.

When the health is adjusted I set the HSlider.value = (curHeath / maxHealth).

All it does is make it display the curHealth as a % of the maxHealth so the maximum size of the slider is 100.

Dynamic slider size with the new UI

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