Display object (sprite, GUI, box) over a camera2D

Question

I have a camera2d that is zoomed in and is a a child node of my player sprite, so it follows the sprite as you walk around a large map/viewport. How would I display a GUI eg health bar over the camera view and be accurate no matter the zoom, margins, etc that I use? Like if you were replicating a 2D Zelda game with hearts on the screen, etc. Thanks.

Comments

Put them under a canvaslayer node

Answer 1

Put a CanvasLayer as your first node in the scene tree and add all UI elements to it.

see: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/2d/canvas_layers.html
and
http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/classes/class_canvaslayer.html#class-canvaslayer

Comments

Thanks, that was surprisingly simple.