Changing text on summons.

[Neopolis3]

This has really been bugging me for a while... And meh, the solution is probably really easy, but anyway.

You know that when you use a summoning or shapeshifting ability, the unit summoned has a timer saying "Water Elemental", "Avatar", "Feral Spirit", or whatever. It's really a pain in custom maps, when you summon a huge Infernal saying "Water Elemental"... I've checked out Gameplay Costants, and I couldn't find anything. So my question is, how do you change this text?

 

[phyrex1an]

You must edit the buff or make a new one.

For example:

Starting of with the Water Elemental spell, change the summoned unit to infernal.
Go to the buff edit and find the buff for water elemental, make a new one and change the tooltip.
Go back to the ability editor and change your new summon spell to the new buff.

 

[Neopolis3]

What about Avatar? There is no buff used there.

 

[Sud]

One thing you might find helpful is the trigger - unit add expiration timer

It allows you to select between a generic timer, raise dead, animate dead, and some more. I make lots of use out of the generic one.

 

[mase]

What about Avatar? There is no buff used there.

You can make a trigger for that.

Events: Unit starts casting an ability
Conds: Ability being cast = avatar
Acts: Change casting unit name to (name)

 

[Neopolis3]

You can make a trigger for that.

Events: Unit starts casting an ability
Conds: Ability being cast = avatar
Acts: Change casting unit name to (name)

Well, first of all, I couldn't find an action like that (Might be me though), and second of all, I want to change the name of the timer, not the unit.

One thing you might find helpful is the trigger - unit add expiration timer
It allows you to select between a generic timer, raise dead, animate dead, and some more. I make lots of use out of the generic one.

Yeah, but that generic timer makes your unit die after it expires. Good for summoinings, but not for Avatar...