How do new model heroes retain their name?

Abelhawk

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• Sep 28, 2012

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I'm making a game where you begin as a dragon whelp, and with each sheep you eat you get more experience. When you get to level 5, you upgrade into a drake, and at level 10 you become a dragon. The problem is, is there a way to retain my hero's proper name when I replace it with a drake/dragon? I don't want it to change randomly throughout the game.

 

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• Sep 29, 2012

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Just set the "Text - Hero Proper Names" to 1 name only in Object Editor ?

 

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Elfansoer

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• Sep 29, 2012

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Or... using change form abilities?
(extreme way, though...)

 

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• Oct 1, 2012

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Well, I guess I could just make one name. I have 9 proper names as possibilities, each a name of a dragon from various sources (Trogdor, Smaug, Sapphira, etc.), and I thought that would give it variety when you played it. But is there no way (even by scripting) to keep the name if the unit is changed?

 

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• Oct 2, 2012

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If there's a way to check the unit's name, you can try recreating the character until it gets the right name, but I'm not sure if you can check the name.

 

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• Oct 3, 2012

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You can get a unit's name or a hero's proper and normal names...

 

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• Oct 3, 2012

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You could make the transformation using a morphing ability, such as crow form. Set normal form unit to drake, and morphed unit to whelp, and add and remove the ability with triggers. That way you will have to replace abilities too with triggers though.

 

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• Oct 9, 2012

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Erkki2 said:

You could make the transformation using a morphing ability, such as crow form. Set normal form unit to drake, and morphed unit to whelp, and add and remove the ability with triggers. That way you will have to replace abilities too with triggers though.

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But then he couldn't evolve further into a Dragon. Sounds like a lot of work over a name. Maybe I'll just give it up.