Change Players in-game

[Moonreaper666]

There was a custom campaign featuring the Scourge and Forsaken. After a cutscene, you stop playing as the Lich King and instead played as Slyvanas. This is all in the same map.

How does one change players/faction the user play's during the game?

 

[Shadow Fury]

I suppose the creator changed the ownership of all Sylvanas' forces to your controllable player and all the ones of the Lich King to another player. If your new units have a different colour, it's normal, the function that does that includes a "change colour" part.

 

[Acutesharpness]

On top of what shadow fury stated, you can also change player alliance so that it looks even more real, by using trigger actions.

 

[Chaosy]

Depends on how you want it. You could remove all units owned by player 1 and then spawn new ones with triggers.
You could have Sylvanas with preplaced units owned by player 2 and then you just change owner of player 2's units to player 1.
Lastly it could be the camera bounds, the player wont be able to control units outside the camera bounds. Add Locust to all units outside the camera bounds to make heroes unselectable. Then switch it around after the cinematic.

edit: though the last idea got downsides and I would not suggest using it.

 

[Moonreaper666]

I remember the cutscene in which the Lich King mind controls most of Slyvanas' Forces.

 

[Moonreaper666]

How about to change players not switch unit ownership?

 

[LordDz]

You set tempGroup1 = units owned by player X.
You set tempGroup2 = units owned by player Y.

You pick every unit in tempGroup1 and change ownership to Player Y.
You pick every unit in tempGroup2 and change ownership to Player X.

Done.