Chat coding: Working with tags and name colours?

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This is done through the Lua Chat API on the server.

  • Require ChatService, which is a ModuleScript found under ServerScriptService.ChatServiceRunner;
  • This returns an object with a particular method you’ll need, which is GetSpeaker, and it takes as its argument the username of the person whose tags/name color you want to change;
  • Calling ChatService:GetSpeaker("sircfenner") will return a ChatSpeaker object, which has another method you’ll need, namely SetExtraData (wiki);
  • This function takes
    – key (a string indicating which aspect you wish to change); and
    – data (the information you wish to apply - see table):


Key Data type
ChatColor Color3
NameColor Color3
Font Enum.Font
TextSize int
Tags array

A ‘tags’ array can contain several tags. Each tag needs to be a table, and can have two keys:
– TagText (string)
– TagColor (Color3)

Assuming speaker refers to a speaker object you have obtained, this is how you would add a red “VIP” tag:

speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", {{TagText = "VIP", TagColor = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)}})
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