Health bar/Damage system

Hello,

I am stuck on how to make a health bar for an enemy. This does the opposite of what I want it do. Instead of taking away '#' for damage it adds it. How can I do it the other way?

Thanks in advance

        while(zombieAHealth>0) {

            std::cout << "Press enter to attack" << std::endl;
            std::cout << "..." << std::endl;
            std::cin.ignore();
            std::cin.get();
            system("clear");
            std::cout << std::endl;

            srand(time(0));
            int bat_weapon = rand()%(5-1 + 1) + 1;
            std::cout << "# You hit him with " << weaponChoice << " and do " << bat_weapon << " damage!" << std::endl;
            zombieAHealth-=bat_weapon;
            std::cout << "____________"  << std::endl;
            std::cout << "|Zombie HP |" << std::endl;

            for(int i=10; i>zombieAHealth; i--){
                std::cout << "#";
            }

            std::cout <<std::endl;
            std::cout << "|----------|" << std::endl;
            std:: cout << "HP: " << zombieAHealth << std::endl;

        }

naaissus (67)

Maybe

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for(int i=0; i<zombieAHealth; i++){
    std::cout << "#";
}

m0bb1n (34)

@naaissus

No, I already tried that. It doesn't print anything out for the health bar.

wizebin (148)

naaissus is correct.

//For each health point, iterate once and output that particular health point
for(int healthPoint = 0; healthPoint < zombieAHealth; healthPoint++){
    std::cout << "#";
}

It would be cool if you displayed underscores for the remaining missing health so you could have some idea of how much damage you've done!

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m0bb1n (34)

Oh shit, my bad didn't realize he had changed i=0 from i=10. Thanks both of you and my apologies!

@wizebin +1
@naaissus +1

wizebin (148)

No worries, I didn't catch it at first either. Keep up the zombie stuff!

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