Renaming Heroes

[madcd]

Is it possible to rename either heroes or units at game time?

I think I remember it being done somewhere but no idea where or when.

Regards,
MadCD

 

[Arvedui]

Yes it is possible. It's probable that you've seen it in every map in Wc3.
Open the world editor, open up your map, then open the Object Editor.
Then go to the unit you want to change and then on the right go to the bottom of it, and where it says unit name, Change it to what you want.

Hope that helps

 

[Preskooldude]

Hope that helps

It shouldn't. The question was specifically asking for the changing of it at game-time.

 

[emperor_d3st]

He said: at game time, so ingame and I doubt that. I wish we could do that but I doubt it.

 

[Arvedui]

OH noes! I misread something! Crucify me! I is evil!1!!1!

Anyway. Taking a quick look at the editor I don't see any action that can change the name, but you can try the Unit - Replace action. Just use the same model and have a different name.

 

[GhostWolf]

No you can't.
Thank Blizzard for not letting us touch more then half of the members of Handle.

 

[madcd]

bummer, oh well thanks for the help guys and its an easy mis-read Arvedui . . . xD

Replacing is not an option, not for 367 units anyway.

If anyone has any better ideas for naming planets in a solar system, with a name randomly generated from an array ideas on a postcard plz.

The only things I can think of now is either text above each planet(messy) or erm.. thats it . . . xD

Regards,
MadCD

 

[emperor_d3st]

Make them heroes.
Give them a lot of possible names.

 

[madcd]

no good I'm afraid, unless there's a way to specify which proper name to use?

Planets are organised in solar systems so planet i, planet ii etc, sol i, sol ii etc.

Any help appreciated

Regards,
MadcD

 

[emperor_d3st]

I don't understand. If the planets are organized then create different units in the object editor.
If the planets are only organized by type, for example:
Suns - Sol1, Sol2, Sol...
Gas Giants - GG1, GG2, GG..
Earth-like - Terra1, Terra2..
Name them like this. It's not clear what you want.

 

[madcd]

yeah I do that a lot . . xD

Ok, at the start of the game a random number of solar systems are generated with a random number of planets between (5-7), each sun is given a name from a randomly generated list, could be done with heroes, but each planet has to have the name of the solar system. I.e. Sol + roman numeral I.e. Sol I sol II etc.

if I could've renamed heroes it would have been simple, but as I can't I think its gonna have to be text name for each planet (they are static).

Reason for non-replacing is there are 367 differant solar system names to choose from, x 7 planet each.. far too many units.

The problem with text above a planet is it looks messy, so anyone got a better solution?

Regards,
MadCD

EDIT: Just a thought...

Is it possible either via gui or Jass to search for a units name/proper name as a string?

I.e. have a planet called Sol with 1 proper name, then let warcraft affix the roman numerals, but I'd have to be able to search for strings coz 367 if statments is gonna take a while . . xD unless there's a switch statement in jass...

 

[emperor_d3st]

Yes, it's possible. You can reference to a hero's proper name as a string.
There is a JASS function called GetProperName()

native GetHeroProperName takes unit whichHero returns string

And I'm sure there is a GUI equivalent for it.

So base your suns on 1 hero with a lot of proper names well naming the orbiting planets would require some more thinking, if you would elaborate a little more on how the planets are named I would try to help, but I'm not 100% sure about your method at the moment.

 

[madcd]

if each planet has the same name as the sun, then warcraft will automatically append I,II,III etc to the end of each planet.

So if I have a epic switch statement that matches the name of the sun to the name of the planet I.e. finds the planet with the name matching the name of the sun then I can simply spawn planets and warcraft will automatically name them numerically for me.

Regards,
MadCD

 

[emperor_d3st]

Well, if I understand right then you have 367 solar names.. hmm well.. You wouldn't need to do 367 if syntaxes here, but it would be an insane amount of work to create 367 planet type heroes..

Okay, so here is the best I could come up with in one minute. I don't think there is a better solution.

You are going to need a system which first places your suns. Let's place 3 suns now.
Your suns' names are Sol, Sun, Joe (haha )

native CreateUnitByName takes player whichPlayer, string unitname, real x, real y, real face returns unit

Since you can create units by name (string value) you can do this:
CreateUnitByName(Player(0), GetHeroProperName(Sun[0]) .....
I'm sure there is a GUI equivalent to this.

This is going to be a hard part. You should create as many types of units as the number of sun unit type's proper names.
The unit's should have 7 proper names if that's the maximum number of planets a sun can have orbiting around them.
BUT. Here is another problem. If your solar system has 5 planets then you can get Sol VI or Sol VII so you'll have to write a little code for this problem.

I would go recursive when placing the planets.
loop
set PlanetsPlaced = PlanetsPlaced + 1
Place 1 planet around your star.
If the planet's hero name contains VI or VII, but the number of planets is 5 then remove the planet. PlanetsPlaced = PlanetsPlaced - 1
If the planet's hero name contains VII, but the number of planets is 6 then remove the planet. PlanetsPlaced = PlanetsPlaced - 1
exitwhen PlanetsPlaced = YourDesiredNumberOfPlanetsAroundThisSun
endloop

Meh, okay, I know my post is a little messy here and there, but I think it's understandable and I'm about to die of hunger so if it's not clean what I suggested then I'll come and correct it in half an hour.

 

[madcd]

thanks d3st makes sense to me, I'll implement it now

+rep for you

Regards,
MadCD