How to create an arched health bar?

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Hey there! I'm extremely new to scripting and I had been searching all over for an easy to understand tutorial or how to on how to make an arched health bar. I found numerous rectangular tutorials but nothing that seemed to not use "rectangle" in the script so that I could adjust what I needed.

So I wanted to see if you kind gents wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction on how to go about making the needle on my health bar rotate from full health (far left) to empty (far right). I figure for now it would be a simple 0-100 type thing just so I can figure out how to get it working.

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Thanks in advance just for taking the time to look at this post.

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Answer by Loius · Nov 26, 2012 at 03:45 AM

Well with a needle ("pointer" of any kind) it's super easy - make the needle be its own object, and just spin it to match the health ratio.

needle.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler( 0, needleDegreeOffset + health/maxHealth * needleDegreeRange, 0 );

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dreamevolved · Nov 26, 2012 at 03:51 AM 0

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Thank you so much! I'm such a noob at program$$anonymous$$g and just couldn't figure out the code for this.

Thanks again!

Fattie · Nov 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM 0

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Dram -- you should go ahead and ask a NEW, SEPARATE question about your next interesting question. O$$anonymous$$?

people will be glad to help.

dreamevolved · Nov 28, 2012 at 01:43 PM 0

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Thank you for the recommendation! I will go ahead and do just that that!

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