Changing the race of a player

[TheFrenchLeprechaun]

Hey there!

I would like to change the race (humans, orcs, elves, or undeads) of a player thanks to a trigger but I have no idea how to do it. I plan to do that just to assign one of the 4 basic UI to a player in function of his race. Actually, the player have the choice between several races (like dvarves, nagas, etc...) thanks to a dialog.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Karzama]

I'm not an expert but you could use dialog buttons? I don't think you are able to do anything about what picture will appear for the builder unless you stuck to having 4 races and replacing the original four. But this would mean you'd have to pick from the normal four in the lobby and you'd be given a different one instead. (so human = dwarf, orc = goblin etc etc).

Don't take my work for it but dialog buttons could work for picking a race but the UI for the worker would always be a bit wrong...

 

[rulerofiron99]

You can't change the UI in-game.

 

[TheFrenchLeprechaun]

I already use dialog for selecting the race at the beginning of the game. And one of the problem is that it will be more than 4 races. To give you a concrete example, I would like that all the players which choose Dwarves and Elves be Humans, Nagas and Skeletons be Undeads, etc... I don't want to change the UI directly, just one of the 4 basic races but once the game has begun. I don't know if I'm clear...

 

[rulerofiron99]

I understand what you mean, but you simply cannot change the UI in game.

The closest thing you can do is limit race select based on the player's lobby race, so if a player chooses Human, they can choose Dwarves or Elves in game.

 

[TheFrenchLeprechaun]

Ok, I see... Thanks for your answers

 

[Legal_Ease]

You can set the player slots so that each player can only be 1 race. Go to player properties. And then team properties and arrange teams and titles. This is the easiest way. In-game selection can be done too but its trickier and you could end up with the same UI anyway.

 

[TheFrenchLeprechaun]

I'm interested in an in-game selection, what would your solution be?