Chat and chat bubbles sometimes get cut off and don't show whole sentence

StrongEnderman2 · March 28, 2021, 8:07am

Its happen every time. Its a common thing.

California_Division · March 28, 2021, 8:10am

Thank you so much, I cannot express the appreciation enough.

TheB4dComputer · April 5, 2021, 2:15pm

I don’t see the fix anymore, and I still have the problem with an NCP chat. I’ve noticed this in other games using the same NCP chat system as me.

mr_smellyman · April 5, 2021, 3:31pm

Yeah, this bug is back. It looks like it might be an issue with text metrics, because I’m even seeing it cut things off in regular chat. Bubble chat is worse; it’s not just a single word, but an entire line sometimes.

pikapower9080 · April 21, 2021, 1:48pm

Sorry, i’m a bit late to the party, but this is a HUGE problem in my game. There are npc chat bubbles are are essential for gameplay using chat:Chat() and the player may only see them once. They always seem to be cut off if they are longer than a certain length no matter how I change around the string. I noticed roblox has a new (kind of ugly imo but that’s a topic for another day) chat bubble design that seems to fix this problem (mostly) but it only shows up in new games and mine was created before they changed this so it’s not effected (I guess that’s a bad thing?).

(This is supposed to say “I’m trying to start an art show but I don’t have any paintings”, “Say, do you have any, I can give you something in return”, and the last one is fine.)

Ggblocks20 · April 21, 2021, 3:24pm

I think the new bubble chat is suppose to fix this. I have seen this issue in many games I play, and it’s made progressing in them impossible.

pikapower9080 · April 21, 2021, 5:16pm

Yes, I mentioned that but my game doesn’t have the new bubble chat, I think only new ones do or the ones which are made with baseplate 2021, I’m not sure which.

SillyMeTimbers · April 21, 2021, 5:55pm

You can active it by yourself if you go to
game > Chat > BubbleChatEnabled > True
or
game.Chat.BubbleChatEnabled = true

pikapower9080 · April 21, 2021, 5:56pm

Yeah, but I’m pretty sure that the NEW version of the bubble chat thing that’s all nice and round is only available for new games, otherwise it just shows the same bubbles we all know and love, that also happen to cut off.

SillyMeTimbers · April 21, 2021, 5:59pm

If you make the value true it uses the new version of bubble chat even in old games. This value is just true by default in old games. But you can easily enable it mid-game and it would instantly update for new messages.

If you don’t like how it looks you can customize it as well since it does have a customization feature.

pikapower9080 · April 21, 2021, 6:00pm

Alright, I’ll see if that works.

Edit: Oh great it does thank you!

Regimental_Power · January 9, 2023, 9:05pm

This is still an issue in 2023

SillyMeTimbers · January 10, 2023, 6:18am

I mean, this is the legacy chat system very unlikely it’ll be receiving any future updates.

M_caw · April 16, 2023, 3:02pm

Thank you so much for this workaround.

As of 4/16/2023, the script that one needs to copy over is actually BubbleChat, and it’s on line 58 now.

Cheers, this bug has been driving me crazy!

SubtleShuttle · April 18, 2023, 6:45pm

Hi, we are no longer supporting this and are migrating people to use the new TextChatService based in-experience chat. Is there a reason why you’re still using legacy chat system?

M_caw · April 19, 2023, 1:33am

I’ve found that the legacy chat system is an easy, built-in way to create the specific dialogue style I want to achieve.

Since the legacy chat system is no longer being supported, I’ll search for a user-created custom dialogue system- one which will be easy to implement without prior programming knowledge.

Thanks for replying.