how do i add value to my progress bar

hi!

i have a progress bar in my game and im trying to make it so that every time you collect a gem the progress value +1. so far i have set the maximum value to 4, (there are only 4 gems so far) and when the player collides with the gem, the gem destroys and now i need to make the progress value +1. i tried making an instance variable called progressvalue, and when the player collides with the gem the progressvalue variable adds +1 value. i was wondering if i could now connect the instance variable value to the progress bar value, if that makes sense.

Hey there, it's perfectly possible, but the method will likely depends of what your progress bar will look like, will it be a simple rectangle or does it have more visual details? If you could post a screen of the result you want that could help ~

ty for helping! it is just a grey rectangle

ty for helping! it is just a grey rectangle

i cant add a screenshot

In that case, you just need a grey square sprite, put its origin on the left, then decide what should be its width for one gem and multiply it with your variable, for example if one gem = 10 pixels width, Everytick > Bar : Set width to 10*Variable

thankyou so much! i will try it out

I made you a quick tutorial video for creating a progress bar:

youtu.be/FM0uJ0g7ueY

i will try it out

thanks

I made you a quick tutorial video for creating a progress bar:

https://youtu.be/FM0uJ0g7ueY

its great thankyou!

I make progress bars this way:

- progress bar itself is tiled background - it lets to avoid stretching texture when you change its size, instead it's "revealing" texture.

- progress bar has set starting point horizontally - left, vertically - center. So it will "grow" from left to right.

- I create two constant variables: one for max bar width (or length) and one for max value that you bar is representing. Ex: max_bar_width = 100, max_lifes = 10.

- then I calculate bar width:

set bar.width = floor(current_lifes/max_lifes * max_bar_width)

- you can show values for progress bar over it as text:

set text = current_lifes & "/" & max_lifes.