Mana Indicator Bar

Hello WE gurus. I am wondering what is the best way I could show mana levels on a unit in a way similar to the health indicators on units when you hover over them or press ALT. Currently I have a trigger to set the units health to equal its mana + 1. But I need these units to be invulnerable, and doing that makes them not show health.

It doesn't have to be exactly like a health bar. I just need a quick visual way to see how much mana units have. Thanks.

Didn't they do something similar to this in the official Blizzard release of Skibi's? You might want to open that map up and give it a shot. You should already have it if you have the most recent patch of TFT.

I think the way it was done in Skibi was blue floating text above the unit with the scale of the unit's mana done with the "|" character. I haven't checked, but that is what it looked like.

Yes, to my knowledge that is what was done. You can mimic it, but you will be unable to have it only appear when hovering/pressing alt.

Ok, I haven't played that TD but I think they did the same thing with the new Bomber Command game on the airports. I couldn't figure out how they did it when I tried analyzing that map but I did guess it was floating text. I guess they make a string of colored text based on whatever percent they are measuring (in my case mana) using a for loop to add each "|" and then concatenate another such string of length 100 - measured percent, in white text, to get the total length of the bar. Does that sound right? Seems rather complicated and processor intensive. Is there a more efficient way?

I'll add some question to this post, @Vexorian: How did you made creation indicator for your Carrier? (interceptors making indicator)

there are lots of ways how you can do it I guess, ussing gametext with blue colors and black colors and ''||||'' signs colors would be one to be creative ;)

I don't remember but I think it was in interface...

I don't think they are related, but mine used items to mimic a fake progress bar