Removing player name (?)

[puffdragon]

Am trying to make the name of a player to disappear when hovering over with mouse. Instead of saying (Player 1) when you hover over the unit I want the whole pop-up balloon to just not appear.

Any way I can go about doing this?

 

[aple]

You can't make the box not appear at all, but you can change their name via trigger so the name doesn't appear in the box.

 

[puffdragon]

I did it before... I just don't remember how... have in mind that I use this player as an NPC only

 

[pOke]

I don't think you can do it for a single player only.

I believe you might be thinking of this:

• Game - Enable pre-selection functionality (Disable pre-selection circles, life bars, and object info)

 

[BloodSoul]

Add locust ability 'Aloc' to all NPC units, remove it, then hide and show them again. The downside is that your cursor won't glow red/yellow when you hover over those units, but you'll still see their HP bar and selection circle.

EDIT: I forgot to say that the only way to select them is by dragging and releasing LMB; Only left-clicking those units won't select them, unfortunately.

 

[puffdragon]

There is another way that does it exactly how I want it, I know cause I did it before !

Anw I will squeeze my brain till I remember.

 

[Rheiko]

Just be sure to share once you remember it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

If you insert a lot of control characters (or invalid characters) into the player name string you can get things like their name to disappear in chat logs and when hovering over units.

 

[puffdragon]

How I can stop a player from being created?

 

[Dr Super Good]

How I can stop a player from being created?

You cannot. Warcraft III must always have 16 players and even if they are removed/destroyed they will still exist.

 

[puffdragon]

@Dr Super Good
I see, then I don't know how I did it the first time...

 

[BloodSoul]

Perhaps using the Neutral Passive player might help you out with it as you'll only apply that effect upon NPC units. It doesn't show object info for its units, unless you flag them as building and neutral (classification) in the object editor. However, that will only display the unit name.

NOTE: I'm not really sure if they (neutral player units) must be flagged as building in order to accomplish such effect mentioned above though.

 

[puffdragon]

I did it. I really don't know how, I was messing with everything in editor and script and I thought i failed, but when i tested the next day it was done. oh well...

 

[kentzeus]

I did it. I really don't know how, I was messing with everything in editor and script and I thought i failed, but when i tested the next day it was done. oh well...

Share it?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Share it?

This topic is coming up to 4 years of age. The person has not been on for roughly 5 months so it may take them a while to respond.

Player limit is now much higher than mentioned in my previous post. Inserting control characters into player name may or may not still work due to changes with how player names and text in general is handled.