Energy Bar Toolkit - 2D and 3D Progress Bars

I believe you can change the Camera 2D of Energy Bar Toolkit depth to be lower than NGUI, but then all bars will be drawn behind the NGUI.

 

Wow, that was simple.

 

Just out of curiosity, in the video about attaching to world objects you disable the camera component and I'm wondering why that is. I assume you reactive it later somewhere in your code?

 

Just before disabling the camera (1:10) do you see this big white square thing that is on top of everything else?
Normally this camera is used to draw bar objects. Bars should be placed away from the scene and on the unique layer. But if you want to place your bars in 3D, then you want them to be rendered by the same camera as other 3D objects. If I wouldn't disable the 2D Camera component then it would render completely unnecessary things (like this square that I've mentioned above).

 

Ok, that makes sense but... how does changing the depth index of the EBT camera affect draw order if it's not being used? Or am I missing something here?

 

But you're not disabling the camera component in your case, are you? I'm not sure if I understand the question.

 

Thats really nice, Piotr. Thanks a lot!

Have you planed to add custom labels to the bars? Or o ly the current values of health or whatever. Lets say the name of the player. I know that this will be out of the bars purpose, but anyway, just asking.

Again awesome asset!!!

Cheers!

 

Hello Danirey!
I'm glad that you like my asset!

You can easily add custom labels using Tools -> Energy Bar Toolkit -> Create UI -> Text ;-)

Cheers!
Piotr

 

I tried both enabling and disabling the EBT camera as well as changing the depth order of all cameras as you suggested and I still wasn't able to get the health bars to appear behind the NGUI elements. No matter what, they're always drawn on top of everything. Any other suggestions?

 

I will add annotations in a moment:

I've used two layers and three cameras to show how camera masks and depths are working.

 

OH! My wife says i can't find anything!!! Maybe it is true!!!

Sorry and thanks!!

 

I didn't realized it earlier, but today is exactly a year from when Energy Bar Toolkit has been bought by the first customer!

Happy first anniversary Energy Bar Toolkit!

I think I will prepare something special for this occasion, but on the next week ;-)

And this was the banner for 1.0 version!

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Thanks for putting that video together. Amazing support, Piotr!

This makes it very clear. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

 

Hi! just started using your asset, and it works great, saved me a lot of time, but there's a little issue I found, I think the asset scripts are working and changing vars all time, so the scene is constantly changing, always says a change where made and asks for saving, it's quite annoying.

 

Hello Moukib,
Thank you for writing! I'm glad that you like my asset!

I will be working to fix that issue in the future versions. It is annoying me too! (I am using mine tools in my projects also)

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Thanks for that quick reply!, glad to know you are already on it, will keep an eye on updates

 

Do you want to test out the new version earlier? I think I've just managed to tame the dirty flag on Energy Bar Toolkit scenes. I've made major changes in rendering system so I don't know how it will behave in the wild ;-)

 

Hello.

I am having a problem using the Energy Bar Toolkit ( Mesh Fill Bar )in my 2D game.

Because of the sorting system in Unity3d my energy back defaults to the "Default" position. I am trying to bring it to the front using the script below, but i cant find a place to put it, since it doesn't leave on the scene.

This was my solution but is there another way to do sorting order on the Energy Bar Toolkit


TY,
-UP



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public class TextureSortingLayer : MonoBehaviour {

public string sortingLayerName = "Foreground"; // The name of the sorting layer .
public int sortingOrder = 4 ; //The sorting order

void Start(){
renderer.sortingLayerName = sortingLayerName;
renderer.sortingOrder = sortingOrder;
}
}

 

Hello There,

Are you trying to use Energy Bar Toolkit with 2D features of Unity? I believe that the sorting layers feature is meant only for Unity3D sprite system. Everything else goes to the "default" sorting layer.

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Just found out from where you've got this script. Interesting... Please try to attach this to the Panel object instead of bar objects.

 

That did the trick =)

Thank you!!!

 

Hi,

Here is the thread of my game. I'm using the energy bar, so you guys can see it there as i update the videos.

Cheers!

 

Hi! I'm sorry I took so long to answer, sure, if you still want some testing, can count on me

 

I am surprised that this is even possible! I will add an official support for sorting layers soon ;-)

Your game look great! Seeing my toolkit working in it makes me really proud of my work I will follow your thread to see more!

I will send you something today then!

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Hi there, i'm using the NGUI integration to put status bars on some icons representing my ships but i'm coming unstuck.

I need to be able to instantiate the bars along with the icons, I get that my prefabs will only contain the anchors and i'll have to instantiate the actual bars separately but i'm struggling to 'Set' the 'eneryBar' for the 'EnergyBarToolkitNGUIAnchor' to the instantiated actual bar. It seem's to be accepting only EnergyBar3DBase objects but neither casting nor GetComponent<EnergyBar3DBase>() seems to work

Please help!

James

 

Hello James,

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to achieve, but I will try to guess ;-)
If you want to instantiate NGUI + EBT prefabs, the best way is to move bars object from Energy Bar Toolkit root to the NGUI anchor object, then make a prefab. I've did a little example movie of this behavior:

[video=youtube_share;fRF1AVtMyKI]http://youtu.be/fRF1AVtMyKI​

These videos may be helpful too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXoYSMH_Ato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyUgspOGUnk

I see that this is repeating question. I will add this one into the FAQ and NGUI documentation page.

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Thanks for the quick response and you understand my issue which is great but i'm following the video, but when I drag my bar from the EBT/Camera 2D/Panel it just disappears, drag it back and it reappears :/ pretty sure I have the culling masks set correctly...

 

Does it disappears in the Scene view, Game view or both?

 

Both, just upgrading to the latest version...

 

Do you see any errors? Does this also happens if you try to move bar object to the top level in the hierarchy?
Please also try to remove your Energy Bar Toolkit directory and import it again.

 

Upgrading didn't help sadly, I have the GUI, EBT and main cameras on different layers, main camera set to omit both the EBT and GUI layers. but moving the actual bar to make it a child of the anchor and it disappears.... been staring at this for hours now, most annoying!! Appreciate the help..

 

To the top of the UI Root hierarchy yes it's still the same, i'll try and remove the directory but won't that kill my existing bars? I'm using the bars elsewhere in the project!

 

Please do a backup of your project.
If you haven't changed the provided prefabs then it should be fine, but it won't hurt to do a backup ;-)

P.S. I highly recommend this tool: http://www.plasticscm.com/home.html

 

Oh yeah of course i'll do a backup, I was just wondering what to expect cheers for the version control recommendation, i'm about to re-write and that will come in very handy. I'll just do as you ask now...

 

I'm still wondering why you're not seeing any errors. Maybe there is other script that messes with it. It may be a good idea to try this out in newly created project. If reimport won't do any good, please try to create a new project, make the bar disappear, and please send me these project files to support@madpixelmachine.com (by selecing only the scene file, right click -> Export Package, but without dependencies).

 

Boom FIXED - with a recommendation for a sterling product to boot, 5 stars for that man!

 

That's good news! I am wondering what was wrong.Unitypackage format is very far from being perfect. I heard that Unity 5 will introduce new packing format.

Thank you for the rating!

About Plastic. I am using it for all of my projects. It is blazing fast, intuitive, and simple to use. This is client-server app so you need either to setup the server locally (default package includes server components) or remotely. I am using the second option for at least two reasons: 1) When my PC will explode, the code is still safe somewhere else ;-) 2) I'm not the only person to have the access to the codebase.

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Very good, well impressed mate, PS do everyone a favour and just change EnergyBarRenderer slighty:

Code (csharp):

1.  public bool visible;

in declarations and in OnGUI add

Code (csharp):

1. if(!visible) {
2. return;
3. }

Gives us the abilities to show/hide the bars at will - really handy!!

 

I could add something like this, but wouldn't gameObject.SetActive(false) do the same? If there is a case when adding "visible" property will be a better solution, please let me know.

Cheers!
Piotr

 

I remember trying that but it doesn't work in all cases for some reason.

It might be just me though!

James

 

I will make sure to test that before releasing 2.1.0.
If someone who is reading this had this kind of issue before, please let me know!

 

Hey Piotr, just having a small problem with the bars not updating now. I'm using the SetMaxValue and SetCurrentValue function on initialisation of the instantiated bars but for some reason the bars show empty, or very slightly full (< 5%)

Have doubled checked that the bars actually have the correct values by debug.log them and they are correct, the bars just aren't updating... any ideas mate?

James

 

Hello James,

Do this bar is working when these values when set manually? If not, please include screenshots of your scene and inspector window after hitting the play button.

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Heh how weird, if I change the values during runtime the bars update - hmmmm, do I need to pass the values through the EnergyBarToolkitNGUIAnchor or something?

 

No, that's not the case. Anchor sets only the bar position. What values are you passing using SetMaxValue and SetCurrentValue? I will try to reproduce the issue.

 

I'm passing them the values of another bar in the short term, I know I should have both bars reference a central variable lol tbh i'll probably code that in now!

 

Sorry dude, I was trying to initialise before instantiating!! Weird that I didn't get a compiler error. Sorry to waste your time.

Peace,

James

 

No problem! Sending messages does not produce compile errors, but you can always include the RequireReceiver option ;-)
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/SendMessageOptions.RequireReceiver.html

Cheers!
Piotr

 

Spoke too soon, yeah its strange - so in the screenshot below i'm setting the MaxValue of the bar, debug.log the result to prove the variable is set. But look at the anchored energy reveals that the value is back at default? I don't get it

 

Please make sure that:
- You're sending the message to BarH object
- You're sending the message to the right BarH object ;-)

You can also try to modify EnergyBar.cs SetValueMax method to look like this:

Code (csharp):

1.     public void SetValueMax(int valueMax) {
2.         Debug.Log("setting the max value to " + valueMax, this);
3.         this.valueMax = valueMax;
4.     }

So clicking on the log message will select the game object that produced it.