Can the way health bars look in BOR mods be changed?

Gav-X · Post by **Gav-X** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:11 am

If so, it would greatly enhance a mod's immersive qualities IMO.

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:57 am

I agree. It would be really cool if DCSteve could change the appearance of the health bar in his MegaMan mod. It should be really easy to make it look like a MegaMan health bar if it is possible. Also, if it's possible to change the appearance of the health bar, Vampiric could probably work something out where it is made up of hearts or something (I know the hearts had nothing to do with your health in the original Castlevanias, but it would still give it a more Castlevania-type feel).

Another question I was wondering about: Is it possible to change the appearance of the items you pick up (like when you punch a wooden box, like the meat and stuff)? If so, it would be cool if DCSteve's mod had those flashing energy balls instead of meat and stuff.

VampiricS · Post by **VampiricS** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:48 am

Another question I was wondering about: Is it possible to change the appearance of the items you pick up (like when you punch a wooden box, like the meat and stuff)? If so, it would be cool if DCSteve's mod had those flashing energy balls instead of meat and stuff.

Yes it is possible to change the apparence of the item you pick up like right now in the Castlevania SOD mod when you breaks a candle it can gives you money or a potion like the Life Max upgrade from SOTN on psx (and it's not in the actual demo, hehe

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As for the health bars... it's hard coded... we can't edit them to fit our mods better... for now.

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Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:20 pm

I can edit the life bars if needed.

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:44 pm

Ian Micheal wrote:I can edit the life bars if needed.

That would be awesome. I would love to see that implemented.

Gav-X · Post by **Gav-X** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:05 pm

Ian, could you please post how to edit the life bars so that all the mod creators can do it if they want to?

SSJKarma · Post by **SSJKarma** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:12 am

i guess you mean you can change them because you understand the source code right ?

because i doubt them to be modifiable by just editing the TXT files which basically have nothing in themselves. except perhaps positionning of characters and items !

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:38 am

You have to do it via the source code. It's pretty easy to compile any way. I will give it a try one time.

law56ker · Post by **law56ker** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:22 am

Yea Ian that whould be really cool if you could change it for your mod and for the megaman one to get rid of that ugly red bar that doesn't really fit either game. A ninja turtles power bar and megaman power bar whould be reallly cool.