Changing the HP bar in battle?

Is it possible to change how the HP bar looks in battle? If so, how would I go about doing it? I know I can change the color of it.

Far as I know, all you can change is the color.

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you can hide it too

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In what way do you want to change it? Color's pretty much the only thing you can change as Spar said. And Meow's right that hiding it is the only other option. The only other way I can think of would be to create a custom engine, but that's a bit much for just changing the appearance of the health bar.

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I was hoping to change the bar into a heart, with the hero's hp inside the heart.

How would I go about hiding it?

Ooh! That would look cool!!

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But not doable without scripting your own engine unfortunately. Though I could be wrong, there might be a really clever and cunning way to go about it. But I can't think of one.

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Use the "Hide Health-meter in battle" general preference bitset (in the General Game Data menu).

You can achieve some small amount of customisation by hiding the battle meters and then drawing some alternative (static) display directly on the backdrop itself.

In future we're planning to allow customising all that, but don't wait around.

If you're really intent on that effect, you might want to get in touch with some of the people who have made custom battle engines. Though if you're new to scripting, it's probably not a good idea to attempt it until you've worked with scripting for a bit to familiarize yourself. Alternatively, you could check some of the games that have custom battle engines, and study them to see how you could go about getting the effect you want.

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That should work. Though the meter won't go up and down. It'll give that illusion of a custom meter, at least.


Sweet!

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I think... it may be doable...

Perhaps with some clever use of attacks, an untargetable enemy, transmogrification, a multitude of enemy sprites, and a lot of experimentation...

I'm not sure how it would work exactly, but I'm intrigued enough to give this some more thought...

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You know BMR, at some point you should stop trying to do crazy things to work around the engine's limitations and try modifying the engine instead!

Once I get my coding skills up to par, I'll be sure to do that

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Oh you're up to par; our standards are super low! If you submit patches which use the same indentation as the surrounding code, you'll already be ahead of the norm! (And I don't mind reviewing and fixing up patches.)

Hehe, well doesn't that make me feel all warm and tingly inside I'll give it a shot then, but no promises that I won't cause everything to explode, hehe.

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