How to change name of a player

[Tiucaner]

I've seen in several online games a feature that enables people to change their name. Like someone types "-setname Box", and guy's name turns to Box. Could someone explain me how you do that?

 

[RedBlade]

Simple

• Change Name
• Events
  • - Player chat message -setname Box
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Player - Set Triggering Players name to Entered Chat text

or something

 

[operator]

Simple

• Change Name
• Events
  • - Player chat message -setname Box
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Player - Set Triggering Players name to Entered Chat text

or something

Incorrect. The name would now be ''-setname Box''

 

[Tiucaner]

You didn't answer my question, that only happens if a guy enters "Box" has a name, but I wanted a Trigger that made that to any name.

 

[Lingonberryjam]

guess this would work:

• setname
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -setname as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Player - Set name of (Triggering player) to (Substring((Entered chat string), 9, (Length of (Entered chat string))))

What you have to do is of course to have an event for each player you think should be able to change their name. What the action does when using substring is that it takes a string (entered chat string) and then takes out a part of it. The part you want is the one after "-setname " (note the space) and to the last letter. This should be from letter nr. 9 to the last letter, Lenght of Entered chat string.

Hope this helped.

 

[Tiucaner]

Thx it worked . I only knew the "Events" part. The "Actions" part was driving me crazy! Thx again.

 

[Jumbo]

how do you do this with heroes, so that a hero changes his "Proper Names"?

 

[Razorbrain]

impossible, sorry, but that is what i know

in WEU you can change a Unit Name, or that is what ive heard, but if it exist it doesnt work on Proper Names

ive heard something about data sets, but ive never seen anything like it