Editor Suffix or any not-shown string

[Lestat(br)]

Is the Editor Suffix preloaded? I mean, is there a way to get ''Unit's Editor Suffix'' in-game?
Maybe a string value under unit properties which can be detected by the scripts. 'Unit Name' isn't what I need, since it is shown in-game.

 

[Tiaan]

Editor suffixes are just that: "Editor" (World Editor) Suffixes. They are there purely for the editor.

I'm not quite sure what you need because editor suffixes are just a suffix at the end of the name, which you can add into the actual name, IE:
Unit name:
Tiaan (Is cool)

 

[Avator]

In addition of what Tiaan said: The suffixes are only seen in the World Editor, not in the game itself. They are made to make an easy to spot difference to 2 units with the same name, but a different unit.

For example:
You got a unit called Blademaster. But you also have a unit that's the Blademaster's ghost. To prevent people to see the name of Blademaster is Blademaster (Ghost), you add (Ghost) as a Editor suffix. That way people read the name Blademaster in-game, but use the unit mentioned in the World Editor as Blademaster (Ghost).

It makes the picking of the right Blademaster a lot easier. You don't want to make a trigger that activates the living Blademaster if you need it to activate on the ghost of it.

 

[Lestat(br)]

I know what you mean, I'm pretty sure what the Editor Suffix is, but I'll explain you better whats my problem.

I'm doing a Card Game Map. You can save your card trunk and load it. These cards are string, each character is assigned to a card. Like, ''A'' means Fire Dragon, ''a'' means Holy Relic. Then if you have 3 Fire Dragon and 2 Holy Relic the code will possibly be: ''AaAAa''

But if I put this string value assigned to the unit type on the actual name, the players will see by the own name of the cards (units) what is its code, and cheat putting the best cards on the code.

But I know there are some special tags to type on the name, so it will have colors and values shown on it. Are those codes available on the unit's name under triggers?
Or maybe tags on the text to make what's between them not visible in the actual name?

 

[Avator]

I'm not familiar with such tags. What you however can do is make If/Then/Else triggers

• Actions
  • If - Conditions
    • Unit is equal to Fire Dragon Card
  • Then - Actions
    • Set Card1[1] = A
  • Else - Actions

Card1[1] means Card 1 of Player 1. You can show it to specific players you want by making text strings including Card1[1].

 

[Lestat(br)]

*Yawn*
I will rep you for your effort, but...I'll keep on trying to make this...

 

[Avator]

If it's not what you're looking for, then just explain. I shouldn't get reputation if my solutions ain't getting you nowhere.

 

[Lestat(br)]

Well...I need to hide a character in an unit's name, before it more exaclty, so I can easily recognize a loading code with triggers.
These characters, altogether will form a string code (just a group of units).

 

[Avator]

I don't think triggers react on editor suffix'. And I don't know if there is something that can do that.

Would adding a custom value help?

 

[Lestat(br)]

Custom value only refers to numbers and to individual units.

 

[Avator]

It's a back-up plan, but you can use

• Add custom value
  • Actions
    • Pick every unit of UNIT-TYPE and do
      • Unit - Add custom value 0101

• Save loading code
  • Actions
    • If - Conditions
      • Custom value of unit is equal to 0101
    • Then - Actions
      • Game - Show text message (Your loading code is (A))

• Load loading code
  • Events
    • Player enters a chat string containing A as an exact match
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Create Fire Dragon Card for Triggering player.

These are made from scratch and I'm not sure if it's possible to check custom values in a condition. If not, you should use Integer Variables.

 

[redscores]

You can check custom values in conditions.

 

[Lestat(br)]

Why would I assign custom values to the units when I can check their unit types in conditions instead?

 

[Avator]

Lol, you're right (I'm slow today xD)

Then forget that trigger '^^

 

[Lestat(br)]

Anything that uses If/Then/Else to save the code, isn't suitable to my problem.

 

[Avator]

Sorry for late reaction (was gone after my last post here for a while), but why are If/Then/Else commands not suitable for your code? They're very basic are effective and the triggers can be understood and edited easily.

 

[Lestat(br)]

It is effective, and usable, but I like clean small scripts with practical execution. But I think I'm using If/Then/Else...

 

[spiwn]

You are(were) going in a very wrong direction.
You do not need the unit to contain a specific character in its name.
If cards are different unit types, than that is all that is needed.
Make two arrays: one containing unit types and one containing corresponding characters(better be integer value though).
So to save unit A:
Unit type array is UT and Character array is CA
Unit type of unit A is 'hfoo'; check UT to find the type, ie 'hfoo' is stored on index 7, then check what the value is in CA[7], ie 54.
So the save value of the unit is 54(or you can go with 7 as the index, which would ease the process a bit).
Loading goes the other way around, first checking CA for the value and then creating the corresponding unit from UT.
Note: Method for checking the "UT" array is up to you(Hash tables; Unit types are integers( 'U001' - 'U000'=1))
From there there are a lot of possibilities: just make the combo from the characters the save code or use
an encryption like system(like code maker and etc(all the save systems)) to bind the code to the user name and/or
decrease the length of the code.
P.s. The two(or single) arrays should be created and assigned with values by code which is run at map initialization.

 

[PurplePoot]

The only object data related strings that you can retrieve via Jass to my knowledge are the art fields on Abilities.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

why not name the unit:

Blademaster|n|c00000000A|r

I don't know if |n works or if the first two 00's work (opacity) but if they don't the black should mask it anyway.

You just need to make sure you have no triggers showing the unit's name in a way they can read it.


But this seems like a long and drawn out way to do it...

 

[Avator]

In HTML codes, you have codes that can only be seen in the raw HTML code, but not in the results. Would it be possible in JASS to make such a same string in the name that doesn't show in-game, but is detectable by triggers?

 

[Lestat(br)]

You are(were) going in a very wrong direction.
You do not need the unit to contain a specific character in its name.
If cards are different unit types, than that is all that is needed.
Make two arrays: one containing unit types and one containing corresponding characters(better be integer value though).
So to save unit A:
Unit type array is UT and Character array is CA
Unit type of unit A is 'hfoo'; check UT to find the type, ie 'hfoo' is stored on index 7, then check what the value is in CA[7], ie 54.
So the save value of the unit is 54(or you can go with 7 as the index, which would ease the process a bit).
Loading goes the other way around, first checking CA for the value and then creating the corresponding unit from UT.
Note: Method for checking the "UT" array is up to you(Hash tables; Unit types are integers( 'U001' - 'U000'=1))
From there there are a lot of possibilities: just make the combo from the characters the save code or use
an encryption like system(like code maker and etc(all the save systems)) to bind the code to the user name and/or
decrease the length of the code.
P.s. The two(or single) arrays should be created and assigned with values by code which is run at map initialization.

It sounds fine, then I should make a loop to read the unit-type and translate it to a character. If I can't hide a character at an unit's name, I'll do it this way.

The only object data related strings that you can retrieve via Jass to my knowledge are the art fields on Abilities.

Via GUI I can retrieve one Ability's name (What was supposed to be Editor-Only), but there is no such function as: ''Random Ability Learned by Unit''.

why not name the unit:

Blademaster|n|c00000000A|r

I don't know if |n works or if the first two 00's work (opacity) but if they don't the black should mask it anyway.

You just need to make sure you have no triggers showing the unit's name in a way they can read it.


But this seems like a long and drawn out way to do it...

This is perfect! I will put this string at the beginning of one unit's name and test it...

In HTML codes, you have codes that can only be seen in the raw HTML code, but not in the results. Would it be possible in JASS to make such a same string in the name that doesn't show in-game, but is detectable by triggers?

I hope so! I'm willing for someone to answer you...