DirectWaitBar value display issue

Scripting Issues
1

Hey,

I’m trying to display a healthbar using a DirectWaitBar. However, the display of the value is inconsistent in that sometimes when I run my game, the value of the bar shows up, and other times it does not. However, the bar always shows up. As follows is my code:

class Creep(object):
	def __init__(self, showbase, midPoints, positionInList):
		self.totalHp = 1000
		#CurrentHp that will be updated and used as value in hpBar
		self.hp = self.totalHp
		self.showbase = showbase
		self.midPoints = midPoints
		self.position = positionInList
		self.start = midPoints[0][0]
		self.creep = Actor("models/panda-model",
								{"walk": "models/panda-walk4"})
		self.creep.setPos(self.start)
		self.creep.setScale(Point3(0.005,0.005,0.005))
		self.hpBar = DirectWaitBar(text = "", value = 50)
		self.hpBar.setScale(Point3(2.5, 1, 8))
		
	#Spanws the creep and its hpBar
	def spawn(self):
		self.creep.reparentTo(self.showbase.render)
		self.hpBar.reparentTo(self.showbase.render)
	
	#Makes the hpBar follow the creep
	#
	#Tried to, instead, make it reparent to self.creep
	#rather than self.showbase.render
	#So I didn't have to constantly update its position
	#But it didn't display when I tried this
	def showHpBar(self, task):
		self.hpBar.setPos(Point3(
								self.creep.getPos()[0],
								self.creep.getPos()[1],
								self.creep.getPos()[2]+5))
		return Task.cont

These are the only places where the hpBar is called/manipulated in any way.

Thanks in advance for the help.

2

I’ve run into a similar issue as this. Unfortunately I was unable to fix this issue. Kind of odd how you run the same program two different times and get two different outputs. Any ideas, anyone?

3

Objects reparented to render follow different Z-ordering rules than objects reparented to render2d. Perhaps you’ll need to call setDepthTest(False) and setDepthWrite(False) on the wait bar to disable z-testing, or something like that.