Player's name in ingame text like in DotA?

[daverave1212]

Hey.I was wandering how could i make a player's name be ingame.For example,player 1 is Daverave1212,and it will say for example "Daverave1212 has pwned X's head for....." how do i do that?

 

[Bannar]

It's an Action:

Player - Set Name

• Player - Set name of Player 1 (Red) to daverave1212

For display action:
Use Game - Text Message, like:

• Game - Display to (All players) the text: ((Name of Player 1 (Red)) + ( has pawned + (Name of Player 2 (Blue))))

 

[daverave1212]

uhmmm nope.Thats not what i want.What if the player is unknown?what if i am playing against u for example???

 

[millzy]

uhmmm nope.Thats not what i want.What if the player is unknown?what if i am playing against u for example???

what he has posted will do that

 

[Bannar]

Ah, i've forgotten to tell, for smooth use this to get player name:

• Set string = (Name of Player 1 (Red))

'string' is a variable here. and then:

• Game - Display to (All players) the text: (string + ( has pawned + (Name of Player 2 (Blue))))

You can use this for namy players.

Egzample in previous post will do that too, however variable will be better anyways.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You use the native which returns a string of the name of a certain player in combination with string concatination with constant strings.

 

[Bannar]

You use the native which returns a string of the name of a certain player in combination with string concatination with constant strings.

• Game - Display to (All players) the text: ((Name of Player 1 (Red)) + ( has pawned + (Name of Player 2 (Blue))))

Is a conmbination of strings with certain players? Don't say me that you looked only on second egzample, I just wanted to show that he can also use variable strings, becasue meaby he also needs players name for other stuff.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Utalizating variables is part of the implimentation, the principle still remains the same. What you are advising him to do is cahce intermitent results to reduce coupling and improve perofrmance in the case that the player name is needed multiple times in the same procedure.