[Solved] Unit name color not changing.

[cheeki_breeki]

I've been struggling for 2 days by now. Here's my problem:

I changed Rifleman's name to be light green in Object Editor;

I made Rifleman available to be sold when Barracks researches a specific upgrade via GUI triggering;

When I go to buy the Rifleman from Barracks, his name color is still unchanged.




Please help I'm stuck, here's the map as an example.

 

[HappyTauren]

You need to change the Tooltip - Basic.

It is near the bottom of the object editor fields. It says "Train Rifleman". You can change this to "Train |cff00FF00Rifleman|r" or whatever the shade of green you are using is.

If you want to change text that comes after that, change Tooltip - Extended, one field bellow.

Changing the name doesn't change the tooltips shown when training units, building buildings, using and researching abilities or buying items, all of them have their own Tooltip - Basic fields (and abilities even have separate fields for when you are learning them, if it is a hero ability).

 

[cheeki_breeki]

You need to change the Tooltip - Basic.

It is near the bottom of the object editor fields. It says "Train Rifleman". You can change this to "Train |cff00FF00Rifleman|r" or whatever the shade of green you are using is.

If you want to change text that comes after that, change Tooltip - Extended, one field bellow.

Changing the name doesn't change the tooltips shown when training units, building buildings, using and researching abilities or buying items, all of them have their own Tooltip - Basic fields (and abilities even have separate fields for when you are learning them, if it is a hero ability).

The strange thing is that I already edited Tooltip - Basic.

It seem to be working when the Rifleman is trained or sold, but it doesnt work anymore when I make it available to be sold to barracks.

If you can have a look on the attached map, you'll understand.

 

[HappyTauren]

Huh, you're right. Is it okay if the unit is trained instead of sold though? You can make a research that makes riflemen trainable, just like in wc3.

 

[cheeki_breeki]

Huh, you're right. Is it okay if the unit is trained instead of sold though? You can make a research that makes riflemen trainable, just like in wc3.

I prefer not, because I would have to change one mechanic into another less appealing and quite unfitting for the map...or I should just give up on the name color thing.

The idea was that I have this structure, at first I can only buy 1 unit (which is already added into TechTree - Sold Units, so I dont have this bug) and then, with a certain upgrade I add another unit to this structure for sale.

For now, I'm going to try something to bypass the problem and search more on google.

Thanks for answering HappyTauren.

Waiting for further replies..

 

[wc3neverdies]

Hey, the only solution i found to this is to create another barracks building with the rifleman already in stock and when the research is finished replace the old barracks with ne new one. It is tricky and you will have to create a lot of barracks for every unit added, but seems the only solution. (I tried with items and the name don't change too). I attached the modified map.

 

[cheeki_breeki]

Hey, the only solution i found to this is to create another barracks building with the rifleman already in stock and when the research is finished replace the old barracks with ne new one. It is tricky and you will have to create a lot of barracks for every unit added, but seems the only solution. (I tried with items and the name don't change too). I attached the modified map.

Alright, it seems to be a good compromise, since I'm going to add just few units.

As for what I wanted, I think it's just bugged so there is nothing I can do about it.

Thanks man.

 

[HappyTauren]

I wanted to suggest that solution as well, but it seemed like too much work just to make the unit's basic tip have color

Well anywas, glad that's solved.

 

[DD_legionTN]

Just to mention that adding a unit to be sold from a building via trigger will make the unit name display without color (known bug) as mentioned in
Producer Update: Natives List

native AddUnitToStock takes unit whichUnit, integer unitId, integer currentStock, integer stockMax returns nothing
                                                                                            //The main tooltip of the added unit will always ignore color tags so the text will always appear to be white. Color tags should be parsed the same as all unit tooltips.