Stupid Question

[LithiumLi]

I can't think of how to do this because my mind is wandering off once again well trying to code.

My game is a fighting based game with both a progress bar and text that represents the health.

I know that if my character has 400 health and I do 200 damage that would be 50% that I would take away from the progress bar and since a progress bar is made up of 100% I would than have 50% of my bar left over.

but what if I have something like 1337 health and I do 28 damage what would the percentage be that I would take away from the progress bar although I don't think a bar would be taken away from the progress bar since 28 damage subtract 1337 health is very little but if I did 500 damage than a few bars would of course disappear.

I hope someone is good at math here and knows what I am talking about a good example would be Diablo 2 or World of Warcraft they show the health in both text and progress bars/orbs.

I think once I see the math involved I should understand how it works but just in case can you add how you did it and were able to figure it out.

Edited March 8, 2009 by LithiumLi

[Achilles]

$totalHealth = 400

$damageDealt = 200

Msgbox(0, 'Result', 'Set progress bar to: ' & (($totalHealth - $damageDealt) / $totalHealth) * 100) 

$totalHealth = 1337 

$damageDealt = 28

Msgbox(0, 'Result', 'Set progress bar to: ' & (($totalHealth - $damageDealt) / $totalHealth) * 100)

[LithiumLi]

$totalHealth = 400

$damageDealt = 200

Msgbox(0, 'Result', 'Set progress bar to: ' & (($totalHealth - $damageDealt) / $totalHealth) * 100) 

$totalHealth = 1337 

$damageDealt = 28

Msgbox(0, 'Result', 'Set progress bar to: ' & (($totalHealth - $damageDealt) / $totalHealth) * 100)

Thanks very much didn't know it was that simple had a brain fart and couldn't think of how it was done.