name changing trigger

[takakenji]

how do you make a trigger which changes the name of a player in-game? such as -name Billy makes your name into Billy

 

[jonhysone]

This works (Just add more events for more players ) :

• Player's name changing
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -name as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Player - Set name of (Triggering player) to (Substring((Entered chat string), 7, (Length of (Entered chat string))))

 

[nGy]

Same question was asked here. Take a look, because jonhysone's way of doing it is not entirely correct.

 

[Sapi]

well, i wanna ask a question since the thread owner problem is solved

is it possible to change a unit name?
without replacing that unit

 

[Assassins-Creed]

No, you'd have to make every unit over and over again for names, unless you use heroes.

 

[Sapi]

so that is impossible
anyway, thanks and +rep

 

[Maker]

Same question was asked here. Take a look, because jonhysone's way of doing it is not entirely correct.

I think you can use substring(1,6) instead of (0,6) since in gui the first char is at "1".

 

[deathismyfriend]

Same question was asked here. Take a look, because jonhysone's way of doing it is not entirely correct.

jonhy's way was correct actually.

 

[Tonex]

No, since the payer could type "Herpity Derp -name", and the player's name would be set to "y Derp"

 

[deathismyfriend]

actually it would display this as the name y Derp -name

he could do a substring check to make sure -name was the first thing typed.

 

[jonhysone]

Why would some one type Hello -name or some thing like that ? Anyways , Use conditions

 

[Maker]

Why would some one type Hello -name or some thing like that ?

Often in software developement, one should not think "why would someone", rather "because some one might".

 

[deathismyfriend]

its like those glitches in games were ppl say hey look what i can do.

 

[jonhysone]

Haha True . I didn't think that some one 'might' do so . Anyways , Easy to avoid that bug.

 

[Tonex]

It could happen that someone is like "How do I change my name", and the other guy says "Well you type -name <name>" and their name is set to "ou type -name <name>" and the guy gets pissed.