Feature Request: Physics Joints for UI Elements

[Deeeds]

@Aidan-Oxley Ok. It's health bars I want.

[iTap Development]

@Deeeds you could make your own health bar.

[Deeeds]

@iTap-Development I could use Swift and SpriteKit, too...

[iTap Development]

@Deeeds for as much as you seem to dislike this app, that might be a good idea! LOL

[Deeeds]

@iTap-Development If I disliked the app I wouldn't bother commenting on its falters, fails, flails and foibles.

[iTap Development]

@Deeeds but you suggest using a different tool? 😂 LOL

[Deeeds]

@iTap-Development No. I'm mocking your suggestion.

I could also use Assembler to write an OS.

Or design a motherboard and BIOS.

How far down do you want to go?

When the name of the game is abstraction, the focus should be on finding the easiest and best possible ways to empower users.

Not turning on physics for all UI elements is a fundamental flaw in the cohesive experience of using hyperPad. It should be there. It's not because of an oversight or focus on other priorities. The OP is a request to remedy this situation.

As for your suggestion of building a health bar, I want to use the Clockwise health bar. This is not possible without masking, another feature missing from hyperPad that's about as traditional to 2D game (and art and animation) development as it gets.

[Hamed]

You should be able to turn on physics on any object not on the UI layer through behaviours.

[Aidan_Fire]

@Hamed Try it on a health bar that’s in a normal (not UI) layer. You can’t 🙁. EDIT: I’m a bad reader. You can do it through behaviours? Didn’t know that, but still, why can’t you just do it through the Scene Editor? Well, @Deeeds an easy way around this issue is in your health bar just have a Make Physics behaviour floating around with nothing connected to it lol. But yeah I think it should be in the Scene Editor.

[Deeeds]

@Hamed Thanks for this insight! I used a Pin connection, but it's kind of wonky. Spins when it shouldn't and locking rotation ranges doesn't work properly. The motor, also, is weird, simply acting like a weld rather than as a motor.