How can you send Game Messages to only one player.

[Cazeoj276]

I can't seem to find out what trigger sends a message to ONE player, not the player group thing.

 

[Billy the Cat]

Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: [text]
does not work for sending it to 1 player?

 

[aznricepuff]

Oddly enough, there's no GUI action for this, but in JASS there's a function DisplayTextToPlayer() and its timed counterpart DisplayTimedTextToPlayer().

However, I'm pretty sure the GUI action that sends text to a player force has options for sending it to individual players (but not positive on this, since I haven't used the GUI action in a while and I can't check right now). If this does work, you don't have to worry about leaking a force since I'm pretty sure the action uses a set of bj globals instead of creating a new force.

 

[PurplePoot]

If you need a more specific way of doing this (rather than needing a preset player), you can use Jass:

call DisplayTextToPlayer(thePlayer,0.,0.,theText)
call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(thePlayer,0.,0.,theTime,theText)

//for example

call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(GetOwningPlayer(GetTriggerUnit()),0.,0.,5.,"Our town is under attack! " + GetUnitName(GetTriggerUnit()) + " was just targeted!")

 

[Child_0f_Bodom]

If you want to do this in GUI...

• Actions
  • Quest - Display to Player Group - Player <Number> (<Color>) the Secret message: <Text>

 

[HaniBon]

I think this is solved now man

But well, if you want the best way of doing this, here's the trigger:

• Player Message
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set MessagePlayer = (All players matching (((Matching player) Equal to (Your Wanted Player (Color)) and (((Matching player) slot status) Equal to Is playing)))
    • Player Group - Pick every player in MessagePlayer and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Game - Display to (Player group((Picked player))) the text: Your Text
    • Custom script: call DestroyForce(udg_MessagePlayer)

 

[Cazeoj276]

Thanks for the help guys.