Trigger to change color of player voluntarily

[MG-Goblin]

Hello! I need to make a trigger that will change the color of a players units when they type a message.
For example: Player 2 Blue, types a message containing "-red" and automatically the color of his units changes to red. If he types -green, then it goes green, and so on. For any player, not just player 2.

Thanks!

 

[Uncle]

• Color Changer Setup
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.01 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- Define your Color strings: --------
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[1] = -red
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[2] = -blue
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[3] = -teal
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[4] = -purple
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[5] = -yellow
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[6] = -orange
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[7] = -green
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[8] = -pink
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[9] = -gray
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[10] = -lightblue
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[11] = -darkgreen
    • Set VariableSet ColorString[12] = -brown
    • -------- --------
    • -------- Add the chat Events to the Color Changer Chat Msg trigger: --------
    • Player Group - Pick every player in (All players) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • ((Picked player) controller) Equal to User
            • ((Picked player) slot status) Equal to Is playing
          • Then - Actions
            • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
              • Loop - Actions
                • Trigger - Add to Color Changer Chat Msg <gen> the event (Player - (Picked player) types a chat message containing ColorString[(Integer A)] as An exact match)
          • Else - Actions

• Color Changer Chat Msg
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- The Events for this trigger are added in Color Changer Setup! --------
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Entered chat string) Equal to ColorString[(Integer A)]
          • Then - Actions
            • Player - Change color of (Triggering player) to (Color of (Player((Integer A)))), Changing color of existing units
            • Custom script: exitwhen true
          • Else - Actions

I set this up to work for the first 12 players (Red -> Brown). If your map supports more than 12 users then you will need to add more ColorStrings and adjust your For Loops to run from 1 to X, where X is the highest Player Number. You'll see the For Loops are set to go from 1 to 12 since Brown's player number is 12.

 

[MG-Goblin]

My friend you are totally awesome! Thanks.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Be aware nothing in that script checks to make sure the color isn’t in use by another player. So if that possible confusion point doesn’t matter for your map then you’re good to go.

 

[Uncle]

The only issue I can see is that this Color of Player function will get the Player's CURRENT color and not their original color:

• Player - Change color of (Triggering player) to (Color of (Player((Integer A)))), Changing color of existing units

If that's the case then you should add a new Player Color variable (array) that tracks each color inside of the Setup trigger:

• Actions
  • -------- Define your Colors: --------
  • Set VariableSet ColorType[1] = Red
  • Set VariableSet ColorType[2] = Blue
  • Set VariableSet ColorType[3] = Teal
  • etc...
  • -------- Define your Color strings: --------

Then you can reference this in the Chat Msg trigger:

• Player - Change color of (Triggering player) to ColorType[(Integer A)], Changing color of existing units