Health below zero but shows negative numbers

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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

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Answer by Eno-Khaon · Jan 08 at 06:01 PM

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();
 }

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Big_F99 · Jan 08 at 06:20 PM 0

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I don't know why, but it works now :D Thanks! :)

Eno-Khaon Big_F99 · Jan 08 at 06:33 PM 1

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The current health value was being transformed into a string BEFORE being set back to 0 if it was negative. That's why it was a matter of order of operations.

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