Floating text for GetLocalPlayer()

05-20-2010, 05:17 AM	#1
Darkrider	If i want to create a floating text for GetLocalPLayer()... does it desync? or there is a safer way to create a floating text for only 1 player?

05-20-2010, 06:23 AM	#2
akolyt0r	you can create a floating text for one player only, but you have to make sure that the actual floating text handle exists for every player... so what you can do is: create the floating text in a place noone can see (for ALL players), move the text to the desired position for LocalPlayer only and make sure that the texttag is destroyed for all players afterwards.

05-20-2010, 06:47 AM	#3
TheKid	Or you could fade the text-tag so that it is completely transparent for all the players except the one you want it to be visible to.

05-20-2010, 07:10 AM	#4
Tot	SetTextTagVisibility(<texttag>,(GetLocalPlayer()==<player>))

05-20-2010, 01:28 PM	#5
Troll-Brain	You can even create a textag locally, it's a pseudo handle, it won't desync. Which is handy because of the limit of 100 textags simultaneously. 100 is not a high limit so 100/12 would be very lame ...

05-20-2010, 03:25 PM

Darkrider

can you show me that in code troll-brain? (Im a guier). In JASS is ok, i can understand some.

so far this

Trigger:

custom script : if (not (GetTriggerPlayer() == GetLocalPLayer())) then

set : visibility = 0.0

Custom Script : else Visibility = 100.0

custom script : endif

...

Show and destroy the floating text.

(or something like this. But i got the idea :P (im at work now))

seems the easier solution to implement in GUI :P

05-20-2010, 04:48 PM

Troll-Brain

No the easiest solution in GUI is that :

Create a player variable name "LocalPlayer", and make this trigger in the top :

Trigger:

init

Events

Map initialization

Conditions

Actions

Custom script: set udg_LocalPlayer = GetLocalPlayer()

Then you can simply use the variable LocalPlayer.

But care it opens the way of de-synchronisation, don't create handles (for example locations), use waits and other things inside a such block.
But i repeat myself you can create a textta locally though.

Here is an example of texttag creation for player red only :

Trigger:

example

Events

Conditions

Actions

Set Loc = (Position of (Triggering unit))

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

LocalPlayer Equal To Player 1 (Red)

Then - Actions

-------- do your stuff here --------

TextTag - Create floating text that reads some text at Loc with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency

Else - Actions

-------- anti leak --------

Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Loc)

05-20-2010, 08:43 PM	#8
Darkrider	Thank you very much troll-brain. i was thinking in doing something like that, but i thought it might desync something like Trigger: idea if owner of GetTriggerUnit() == GetLocalPlayer() then TextTag - Create floating text that reads some text at Loc with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency just like you said :) thanks =D