Renaming Heroes, and possibly units

[Map Designer]

Hello everyone,
I was just wonder if you have any idea on how to give the player the chance to raname the hero, and even a unit if possible, by a string entered by the user owning it.

Edit: and I'm not sure I think I read thread like that before but...

 

[deathismyfriend]

you can set player name and u can get unit name but i do not believe u can set a unit name in game.

 

[Doomguy80]

I have tried to find something like that for a LONG time, but I am sorry to say that I have to agree with deathismyfriend that you cannot do it

 

[Binsu]

As what others said, you cannot change names of units or hero in-game but only the Player's Name through making command related to this in triggers.

 

[Map Designer]

NO

FORGET IT

JUST GIVE IT UP, THERE IS NO WAY

Omg what you guys are saying,
any little optimistic guy around?

 

[Binsu]

Omg what you guys are saying,
any little optimistic guy around?

The answer is really No, my friend. You cannot change unit's name in-game but only Player Name.

 

[takakenji]

Omg what you guys are saying,
any little optimistic guy around?

wtf??? this is so overdramatic

when they say u cant they mean it literally this is impossible no1 is trying to bring down ur dreams

 

[Almia]

Impossible.
Letting the player's type the name they is impossible.
But if you don't you could do it by doing hero duplicates.

 

[Rozll0rt]

you can't change in game just in editor

 

[Map Designer]

Impossible.
Letting the player's type the name they is impossible.
But if you don't you could do it by doing hero duplicates.

Fair enough,
then it'll go something something like choosing the name of the hero before the hero comes then as soon as hero arrive we replace him, yea? like, ummmmm, cuz I don't want the player to have two heroes of same type I'll change the guy to neutral as soon as he come and move him to some other part of the world and replace him with the new created desired named unit, how about that?
still no idea how to do this thing though....

 

[Vinz]

It is possible though. Create a floating text containing hero's name then move it to the location of the hero every .01 seconds.

 

[UndeadImmortal]

It is possible though. Create a floating text containing hero's name then move it to the location of the hero every .01 seconds.

He means inside the action panel (below the UI).

 

[defskull]

Some things, are meant to be hard-coded and "impossible" (that's the reason why that word exists in the first place).

It's like you're trying to change graphics of Warcraft III into Crysis III.

However, there is a trick, but limited to the name that you already pre-set.
If it's not pre-defined, you can also use Floating Text technique to "overwrite" the original name but it kinda looks messy.