Unit names

[Turambar]

Is it possible to change the name of a unit during a game? For example if I've got 2 archers and during the game I want to change ones name from Archer to Dave and the other to Bob.

[Immortal Wombat]

Only by amking an army of one and then naming the army. But then it means you cannot stack Dave and Bob together without losing their identities.

[HuangShang]

thats tight

[The Big Mc]

yes you can kill the arches and reincarnate as freed, bob ,Dave, and or sue. ( by turning them into special units with different name from archer).


It works well in the Samaria scenario. Only deferens in that is skill upgrade but look into it, it is possible

[Immortal Wombat]

You'd need an extra unit for every name of every normal unit. I think that option is a little unfeasable.

[Turambar]

Just saw this page http://apolyton.net/ctp2/modificatio...cbuiltin.shtml which contains:

UnitRecord array
unitrecord.name - the unit type's name
unitrecord.attack - the unit type's attack value
unitrecord.defense - the unit type's defense value
unitrecord.cost - the production cost of the unit type
unitrecord.ranged - the unit type's ranged attack value
unitrecord.movement - the unit type's move points

Is it then possible to change unitrecord.name to call a unit Bob? Or unitrecord.attack etc to change a units stats during the game?

[Immortal Wombat]

They're read-only.

The unitrecord.name just accesses its name in gl_str.txt, for example:
UNIT_WAR_CHIEF "War Chief"

The unit stats should theoretically be able to be changed using the mod_UnitAttack() function, but its a weird function that probably does not work properly (ie. returns 1 - normal attack, or 0 - no attack)

So really, there is no way to alter any unitrecord array members, sorry.

[Dale]

Actually, unitrecord.name is only a string, not an int or anything. So technically, what IW said is not 100% correct. The stored element in unitrecord.name = "Archer" for an archer, not ID_UNIT_ARCHER, and so forth.

This is the same for player.name, city.name and many other permanent array members.