Coding - Golem Health, Death and Emission - John Howard

Task
Code health and a diagetic emission health bar.
Step One - Setting up the materials
The first step was to take Tom's latest model and apply the materials and latest rig. This was a very quick script to set up.

Step Two - Accessing Emissions
Accessing the emission texture took more work than I thought to begin with. It turns out you have to actually call keywords to unlock the use of them. I had to refer to this API quite a lot in order to get it working. But once I did it was rather simple. I could now change the emission to be that of a set colour. I then decided to create a point light which would take its colour value from the emission and would have a pulse script on it. This made it feel more alive.

Step Three - Health

I then set up a health script which used cur-health and max-health. The current health could be accessed by a trigger which would lower the current health. I set this up to make use of the emssion. So as the golem's health falls its light changes.

• 180 - 121 -- Yellow
• 120 - 61 -- yellow/orange
• 60 - 41 -- orange/red
• 40 or less -- red

This allows a proper diagetic showing of the health. So the player can read what is happening in game.

Step Four - Death

Once that reaches 0 the golem activates a death animation and falls to the ground. Where it plays a death sound then is destroyed and a hollow armor is instantiated in place, made by jack. This was just instantiating and calling bools so a very simple script to make.