Adding the name of great person in text of notification message (lua)

[Tomatekh]

I add a notification message after a Great Person does a certain event. I have no problem adding the notification with all sorts of text, I've done that before. However, I would like to add the specific Great Person's name that triggered the event in the notification text. So, if I have an engineer named Tesla trigger the event, I would like the text to read "Tesla has..." etc. etc.

I realize I have no idea how to retrieve a units unique name (if possible) to display. It's probably something Locale.ConvertTextKey, but I don't know how to get the specific TXT key that unit is using for its name.

Any advice?

 

[Tomatekh]

Ugh, nevermind, I don't know how I missed unit:GetName() the bajillion times I looked at the lua stuff. :/

 

[Tomatekh]

Okay, I have a follow up question. All the names are programmed with gender. Is there any way to have the txt read him or her depending on the gender of the name?

 

[whoward69]

GetNameKey() should get you the TXT_KEY_ value (not the translated name) which you can then use to further format the output strings - see http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=486830, specifically bits about gender. However, none of the standard TXT_KEY_ name entries for great people seem to include gender info, so you'd need to add that yourself to the DB

 

[Tomatekh]

GetNameKey() should get you the TXT_KEY_ value (not the translated name) which you can then use to further format the output strings - see http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=486830, specifically bits about gender. However, none of the standard TXT_KEY_ name entries for great people seem to include gender info, so you'd need to add that yourself to the DB

The his/her thing was specifically for something with my Great Prophet name mod (which I did include genders) so that won't be a problem.

Thanks for all your help.