"Talking" to a unit.

[blurished]

im making this small campaign map. i want to add a trigger where when u select unit A, while being 200 radius away from it and typing -ask in the chat box a game text will pop up saying blablabla

 

[Infy]

When you initialize the map, assign all the "talking" units an incremental custom value and some phrases

e.g.
Talking Footman: custom value 1
Talking Peasant: custom value 2
etc.

Then create a string array containing each message matching each unit.

e.g.
Phrases[1] = "Hi, I'm a footman!"
Phrases[2] = "No one notices me..."
etc.

Now, in a separate trigger, make an event for each player for when they say "-ask"

And for the actions:

• Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units currently selected by (Triggering player)) and do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Custom value of (Picked unit)) Greater than 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Game - Display to (Player group((Triggering player))) the text: Phrases[(Custom value of (Picked unit))]
        • Skip remaining actions
      • Else - Actions
        • Do nothing

The skip remaining actions just means we found a unit that has an ask phrase and we can skip any more.

 

[Accname]

or you could simply use hashtables and link the units handle to a string...