need help, how to stop my health bar from rotating

I have a Health bar that is a child to my player, but I don't know how to keep it from rotating and still follow the player.

 

You can call transform.LookAt(target) (use healthbar's transform) , where parameter target can be any transform you want your health bar to look at, for example the camera transform.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.LookAt.html

 

But what would I point it toward?

 

Here are two possible approaches:

Approach 1: have the health bar be a separate GameObject (not a child) that has a script to stay with the player, perhaps adding an offset, and doing so perhaps in LateUpdate() so you know the player has moved

Approach 2: (more intrusive): restructure your player so the root object does NOT rotate, but only a child object rotates, and then another non-rotating child object would be the health bar, offset from the root. You would only move the root object, but you would only rotate the child visuals.

EDIT: I made a gist of option #1 above because this question comes up so much. Gist located here:

https://gist.github.com/kurtdekker/1152ceb81a7de7420b796bcca5a86cb9

Full unitypackage demo scene attached herein.

 

Approach 3: Get a reference to the health bar's transform and set the rotation to identity. If the health bar script is on the health bar, all you need to do is add the line transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity; in LateUpdate().

 

how would I set the rotation to identity?

 

whenever I do this, my healthbar still rotates, but it stays under the character
Edit: I forgot to have the healthbar not be a child

 

Code (CSharp):

1. transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;