Changing unit models thru triggers?

[hypsandar]

What if everyone starts with the same unit but i wanted to make the units change models depending on their randomly selected names? I'm updating a LOAP map, i want the players to look different from each other.

 

[Chaosy]

You cannot change the model.
You can use something similar to the bear form to transform however, there are plenty of guides on how to do that trick properly.

 

[Gnuoy]

wrong

• Unit - Set Unit Skin of unitX 0352 <gen> to 'Hamg'

 

[MasterBlaster]

@Gnuoy

I'd like to share with you one of the many lessons my life taught me - the harder you're trying to make yourself look clever, the more likely you are to end up making a fool out of yourself. Sadly, you and your response in this thread are a perfect example of that.

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The functionality you mentioned was introduced in patch 1.32, which launched in January 2020. This thread was started and answered in October 2017, i.e. more than a year before we knew 1.32 was going to be a thing, let alone what it could contain. As such, at the time of writing his post, @Chaosy was absolutely correct.

You necroing this thread more than 3 years later to point out that he was "wrong", because he didn't suggest a solution that didn't exist back then and that he had no idea was coming, makes you look stupid. So, please, next time you want to be a smartass, do yourself a favor and check your facts first. Or better yet - don't be a smartass, because nobody likes them and if you want to be helpful to others by updating an outdated answer, do so without any clever remarks.

 

[Chaosy]

More importantly, changing the skin of a unit is not the same as changing a model.