[Trigger] player rename mechanic

[Bombastic]

I've seen it alot in recent games, you type
-rename Blarg
and your name becomes "blarg"

I'm trying to set this up to have the player be able to set the name of the team they are playing on (so it shows up on the leaderboard).

Basically all I have to do is set a variable to a string entered by the player. However, the player has to be the team leader that is randomly chosen at the beginning of the game. I try to set up a simple event check "if player (team1lead) enters chat message"...
but when I try to select my "team1lead" variable, it says "no variables of this type exist"

WTF!

 

[NoNZealot]

There's an action called Player - Set name. Use it to change names...

 

[Bombastic]

That's not my problem.
I want the trigger to respond ONLY if the player typing -rename is the team leader.
It doesn't seem to let me use the "teamleader" variable in the event. Do I actually have to go through and make a separate trigger for every single player?

 

[apocalypse_dude]

you have a condition Triggering player equal to teamleader, if teamleader is player variable

 

[Bombastic]

yeah I saw that apocalypse, I suppose i'll just have to make a trigger for each player. lame.

 

[GhostWolf]

Remove the events, now in another trigger add them with the Trigger - Add Event to your main trigger. This will allow you to use variables in it.

 

[Bombastic]

brilliant!

How did I not know this before.
thank you so much ghostwolf

 

[Cr34p]

i have a similar system in my map, you could do it like this

• nametest
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 types a chat message containing -name as A substring
    • Player - Player 2 .........
    • Player - Player 3 ......... and so on
  • Conditions
    • (Triggering player) Equal to (Player(teamleader))
  • Actions
    • Set teamname = (Substring((Entered chat string), 7, (Integer((Entered chat string)))))

teamleader is a integer, so you set the teamleader into a number and now u can use it in your conditions

maybe i can help u with this

 

[Bombastic]

thanks schurke! I was also confused on the whole substring thing, but I get it now xDDD