How to get player name???

[CEMEHbl4]

How to compare player name with a string?

I am in a shock right now, i cant find function to return player name!!!

How to get player name???

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Transformed to (read the thread to see why (or go to Imdb PRO lol) ) :

How to compare player name with a string?

 

[Im_On_56k]

PlayerName(1);

Returns the name for player 1.

Or in the GUI Player -> Player Name

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Game - Map initialization
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • UI - Display (Name of player 1 for (All players) to Subtitle area

 

[CEMEHbl4]

oke its work for actions... but i cant put it in condition! here is no text type , only text tag, wtf?

i need comparison "triggering player name equal to xxx"

 

[Ancanus]

I am unable to find it either.

How about storing the names of the players in an array and comparing against it?

 

[Dave312]

I've only just started playing around with the editor but hopefully this will be of some help. You can reference the name of a player under the Text has been set condition (label = player). I haven't had any luck referencing it as a comparison though.

EDIT: Ok so I managed to create a GetPlayerName function which returns the players name. The problem is that because I had to set the return data type to text, I am unable to reference the function in a condition because it does not allow comparisons between the text data type. It does however allow comparisons between strings but I am currently unable to find a so way of converting a text to a string. Seems rather stupid since they should be pretty much the same thing.

 

[ZugZugZealot]

converting a text to a string. Seems rather stupid since they should be pretty much the same thing.

If text type is what I think it is, they're more different than you think. The way they work, text has the dynamics of a wide string, which is 16 to 32 bit per character while a regular string is 8 bit per character. char to wide is a lot more straight forward of a conversion than the other way around. Though "hard" isn't much of an excuse for a big company.

 

[Dave312]

If text type is what I think it is, they're more different than you think. The way they work, text has the dynamics of a wide string, which is 16 to 32 bit per character while a regular string is 8 bit per character. char to wide is a lot more straight forward of a conversion than the other way around. Though "hard" isn't much of an excuse for a big company.

Is that the same as Unicode (16 bit) vs ASCII (8 bit)? Or is it meant to be more like a rich text thing? Either way you should be able to do some sort of comparison.

 

[Inflicted]

conditions:
(Name of (Triggering player)) Equal to TheName ?

i think thats what your trying to say.

just set what I stated as TheName to a variable? um

 

[CEMEHbl4]

I am unable to reference the function in a condition because it does not allow comparisons between the text data type. It does however allow comparisons between strings but I am currently unable to find a so way of converting a text to a string. Seems rather stupid since they should be pretty much the same thing.

lol

i cant continue to develop my map, because of this problem! I stuck!!!

Retarded Blizzard...

and what should i do now? :banghead: