Turn Based Battle System Speed Bar

[DanielTDS]

Hello everybody! I'm here again searching for some help to do something I think it's possible but i don't know how to. Well, here's my situation.

First of all: Have you ever played a custom campaign called HeroRPG? If so, things will be easier to understand. If not, you should play, its an awesome Final Fantasy like campaign.

I played the campaign and I liked the idea so much that I wanted to make a Turn Based Battle System for a four players RPG map. Everything was going quite well when I came into one easy but laborious situation: the speed bars.

An example of how one speed bar may work:

• Speed Bar
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set S_Player_Speed_Maximum[1] = (S_Player_Speed_Maximum[1] + S_Player_Speed[1])
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • S_Player_Speed_Maximum[1] Greater than or equal to 10.00
        • S_Player_Speed_Maximum[1] Less than 20.00
      • Then - Actions
        • Set S_Player_Speed_Bar[1] = |cAB2A2A||r|||||||||
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • S_Player_Speed_Maximum[1] Greater than or equal to 20.00
        • S_Player_Speed_Maximum[1] Less than 30.00
      • Then - Actions
        • Set S_Player_Speed_Bar[1] = |cAB2A2A|||r||||||||
      • Else - Actions
    • -------- Continues... --------

The problem comes with the "Set S_Player_Speed_Bar[1] = ||||||||||" I want to colorize some part of the text that represents the speed bar's completion. I can just imagine using a lot of IF/THEN/ELSE to verify if the "Speed Bar's Maximum" is between 2 numbers and then colorizing the right part of the text (Like I did in the example).

To be precise, i just want to know if there is a way to insert a string (the hex color code) between 2 specific string spaces (that will be calculated using the current Speed Bar Maximum's value) and after, using the |r to stop the colorizing.

Thanks for the assistance and sorry for any English mistakes. I'm not a native English speaker

 

[rulerofiron99]

This is how I colour an HP bar:

• SQDSYS Loop Health Bar
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.03 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in SQDSYS_LeadersGroup and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set tempSquadId = SQDSYS_LeaderIsInSquadId[(Custom value of (Picked unit))]
        • Floating Text - Change the position of SQDSYS_Floater[tempSquadId] to (Picked unit) with Z offset 64.00
        • Set tempCurrentHealth = 0.00
        • Set tempTotalHealth = 0.00
        • Set tempCurrentHealth = (tempCurrentHealth + (Life of (Picked unit)))
        • Set tempTotalHealth = (tempTotalHealth + (Max life of (Picked unit)))
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in SQDSYS_SquadGroup[tempSquadId] and do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Set tempCurrentHealth = (tempCurrentHealth + (Life of (Picked unit)))
            • Set tempTotalHealth = (tempTotalHealth + (Max life of (Picked unit)))
        • Set tempString = PlayerColour[PlayerColourChosen[(Player number of (Owner of (Picked unit)))]]
        • For each (Integer A) from 0 to (Number of units in SQDSYS_SquadGroup[tempSquadId]), do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Set tempString = (tempString + lllllll )
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Number of units in SQDSYS_SquadGroup[tempSquadId]) Not equal to 6
          • Then - Actions
            • Set tempString = (tempString + |cff000000)
            • For each (Integer A) from 1 to (6 - (Number of units in SQDSYS_SquadGroup[tempSquadId])), do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Set tempString = (tempString + lllllll )
          • Else - Actions
        • Floating Text - Change text of SQDSYS_Floater[tempSquadId] to tempString using font size 5.00

The idea is that you concatenate many small strings, e.g.
|cffff0000
+ l
+ l
+ l
+ |r|cff00ff00
+ l
+ l

I used a for loop to get the right number of characters for the string in my health bar.

 

[DanielTDS]

Thanks man! Your idea solved my problem!

 

[HesitationSnow]

I would recommend one of these bars:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/progresscastingbar-227064/?prev=search=bar&d=list&r=20
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/progressbar-v2-223392/?prev=search=bar&d=list&r=20
http://www.thehelper.net/threads/loadingbars-tallybars-w-e-bars.142619/

This seems like what you're trying to do, have you seen it yet?:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...-204524/?prev=search=health%20bar&d=list&r=20
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...143066/?prev=search=channel%20bar&d=list&r=20
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...121269/?prev=search=channel%20bar&d=list&r=20
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...148937/?prev=search=channel%20bar&d=list&r=20