Trigger Name help

[Nikkone]

Say there's a mercenary shop, and in that shop you can buy either a grunt or a footman. How do I make it so that when someone buys a footman, it changes their name so it has (Footman) in front of it?

Example:

Bob (Footman): Hello

 

[PurgeandFire]

Something like this:

• NameChange
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Sells a unit
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Mercenary Camp (Ashenvale)
  • Actions
    • Player - Set name of (Owner of (Sold unit)) to ((Name of (Owner of (Sold unit))) + ( ( + ((Name of (Sold unit)) + ))))

It just involves a lot of concatenating strings.

 

[Levdragon]

Yeah but it will only work once unless you use variables or something like that to save the original name.

 

[MortAr]

Yeah but it will only work once unless you use variables or something like that to save the original name.

The above example is the same, it uses a bj, thats all.

 

[Nikkone]

Something like this:

• NameChange
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Sells a unit
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Mercenary Camp (Ashenvale)
  • Actions
    • Player - Set name of (Owner of (Sold unit)) to ((Name of (Owner of (Sold unit))) + ( ( + ((Name of (Sold unit)) + ))))

It just involves a lot of concatenating strings.

This worked. Thanks man, one more question though...
How do I make it so that if the footman dies, it will change his name back?

 

[Levdragon]

My point, you need to use variables or something like that, try experimenting. It can be done if you don't want the original name but... you do.

 

[PurgeandFire]

My point, you need to use variables or something like that, try experimenting. It can be done if you don't want the original name but... you do.

Hmm.. I'm not sure what you mean. It adds to the players name " (<Name of sold unit>) " eg: " (Footman) ". So if their name was "Hippo", then it would change their name to:
"Hippo (Footman)".

This worked. Thanks man, one more question though...
How do I make it so that if the footman dies, it will change his name back?

I made some quick codes that might work:

Brief demonstration

• OnMapInit
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hashtable - Create a hashtable
    • Set MyHash = (Last created hashtable)

• NameChange
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Sells a unit
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Mercenary Camp (Ashenvale)
  • Actions
    • Hashtable - Save (Name of (Owner of (Sold unit))) as 0 of (Player number of (Owner of (Sold unit))) in MyHash
    • Player - Set name of (Owner of (Sold unit)) to ((Name of (Owner of (Sold unit))) + ( ( + ((Name of (Sold unit)) + ))))
    • Unit Group - Add (Sold unit) to SoldGroup

• ResetName
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) is in SoldGroup) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Player - Set name of (Owner of (Triggering unit)) to (Load 0 of (Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit))) from MyHash)
    • Unit Group - Remove (Triggering unit) from SoldGroup