Health value and/or bar over character sprite

[Orthonormal]

I have a variable, "var health = 100". How do I display its value on a sprite?

Do I have to use the draw function on the screen object? (http://www.melonjs.org/docs/symbols/me.ScreenObject.html)

[Orthonormal]

Or should I do it using a HUD object like in the tutorial? And set its location over the player sprite?

[melonJS]

Hi,
That's something we already discusses in a previous topic (if you want to look for it), and my recommendation would be to redefine the entity draw function of your entity and add the drawing of your health bar (either text, png, etc., using the given context parameter), and without forgetting to call your entity parent function when you are done :)

[Orthonormal]

Thanks for the clarification! :)