how do I make it display properly? what I'm trying to do is make the health colors display with the health bar shape.

[daveandbambifan1234]

I'm new to this engine, I barely know how to use it so i need help

[r6915ee]

Considering that your health bar appears to be based on quadrilaterals and not rectangles, you have to go through some somewhat hacky HaxeFlixel tricks to get this health bar design to work. I'm assuming that you at least know how HaxeFlixel works, since you seem to have removed healthBarBG.

When making your new health bar, simply set it as the value of PlayState's healthBar. This allows icon frame tracking to work properly.

FlxBar has a method that creates a bar from two images. The main requirement for this to work on the images' side is one image for the opponent's side and one for the player's side. The actual outline can be available through an additional sprite, or if you're willing to cut off some time at the cost of lower accuracy, you can include the outline in the images directly. After this, it's the usual sprite transformations.

The main issues with this is that, as far as I'm aware, you can't set the color as you normally would with a typical health bar that strictly uses a rectangle. It's also heavily designed to use direct instructions to HaxeFlixel. It's one of the reasons why I dislike HaxeFlixel, in fact, since it's strictly prohibited to pure inheritance and not the superior ECS paradigm (at least, in my opinion) that is much more data-oriented.