Changing the name of an object

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• #1, by elwan Tuesday, 03. March 2020, 10:46 7 years ago

  Is it possible with Lua to change, anytime during the game, the name included in the properties tab of an object ?

  Thanks for helping...
  

  
  
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• #2, by afrlme Tuesday, 03. March 2020, 11:23 7 years ago

  Yes it is, but unfortunately the new name doesn't get saved into the save game data, meaning that when someone loads a save game that the original name will be displayed instead. However you work around this by creating a value & saving the name to the string section of the value & then on mouse over the character you can use Lua to overwrite the name with the one stored in the value & that way it will always display the correct name.

  
  

  I've just woken up, but I'll dig out the script/function to do that for you later on.
  

• #3, by elwan Tuesday, 03. March 2020, 13:56 7 years ago

  Thank you for this quick answer!

  I'll wait for your script, but I have to mention that I am a beginner in Lua...

• #4, by afrlme Tuesday, 03. March 2020, 14:58 7 years ago

  Ok, so here's what you can do...
  
  

  1. add this as a definition type script in the script section of the editor.

  
  

  function changeName(txt)
  
  
  
      local obj = game.CurrentObject.Name.TextLanguages
  
      -- + --
  
      for i = 1, #obj do
  
        obj[i].text = txt
  
      end
  
      -- + --
  
      game.CurrentObject.Name.TextLanguages = obj
  
  
  
  end

  
  

  
  

  Now what you need to do is create some mouse over actions for the objects/characters that you want to change the name for.
  
  & inside of these you need to add something like this...
  
  if value "example" is 1
  execute a script >
  
  

  local t = {
  
   English = "original name",
  
   German = "ursprüngliche name"
  
  }
  
  
  
  changeName( t[ game.StandardLanguage:getName() ] )

  
  

  else if value "example" is 2
  

  
  

  local t = {
  
  English = "alternative name",
  
  German = "alternativer name"
  
  }
  
  
  
  changeName( t[ game.StandardLanguage:getName() ] )

  
  
  end if

  
  

  ----

  
  

  Hopefully what I've just written makes sense.

  Anyway, good luck.

  
  

  * edit: I should have probably explained how it works. The definition script is a function that allows us to change the name of whatever the cursor is currently hovering over for each available game language. The mouse actions you create expect you to use a value that you can query to check which name it should use & then inside of some execute a script action parts you create some temporary tables containing the name for each available language & then the engine picks the relevant name from the table based on the current active game language & updates the name to that.
  

• #5, by elwan Tuesday, 03. March 2020, 16:26 7 years ago

  Thank you again for the quality of the answer.

  It will take me some time to implement this code in my game as I already said I am not an expert...

• #6, by afrlme Tuesday, 03. March 2020, 17:35 7 years ago

  No problem.
  
  

  What I posted is more or less plug & play. Just need to edit the table values & maybe the name of the languages if they don't match up - everything is case sensitive when it comes to Lua script.