I’m not sure if this is a “me” problem or if everyone is experiencing this. I’m currently in work on a project that requires the roblox chat. With that being said I have absolutely no errors, or custom chat system in. This happens even with a default baseplate.
I click “Play” then I load in, the chat system isn’t there. I need to restart it over and over until it appears. It has about a 50% chance of working.
We are actively looking into this. Meanwhile if you want to test chat in studio, you could try testing it without APS by going to Settings - Studio - Advanced - Disable Accurate Play Solo
This seems to be an issue that has been brought to light again as I am experiencing the same effects as described by everyone on this thread.
My project requires that the ChatScript be present but yields infinitely as there are times where it simply will NOT be inserted into the game/playerscripts. This has happened to me multiple times now (three in a row occurred before writing this post) and thus forces me to keep retrying until the ChatScript gets inserted into my PlayerScripts by chance (thus negatively affecting my Development Workflow).
This issue has come up for me as well. Without any external scripts being added into ChatServices, the chatbox sometimes doesn’t appear at all in Studio.
I too am experiencing this bug as of the last Roblox editor update pushed out a few days ago. About 50% of the time the chat bubble shows up, but if you click it nothing happens, and you can’t access chat via “/” either. There are no errors or warnings or timeouts being shown in console.
Additionally, starting a blank Baseplate project will encounter this bug, which leads me to believe that it is a problem with Studio, not on our end.
We’re also experiencing this issue. It seems that ChatScript is not being parented to PlayerScripts. Some of our scripts that depend on ChatScripts are raising infinitely yield warnings:
Infinite yield possible on 'Players.MyPlayer.PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("ChatScript")'
A hacky fix to patch this kind of bug is this following localscript inside your StarterPlayerScripts.
It seems the Player is being added faster than ChatService even inserts the ChatScript localscript into StarterPlayerScripts.
The script will make sure it’s running in Studio and then checking if the localplayer has ChatScript in their PlayerScripts for 3 seconds. If the player doesn’t have that localscript after 3 seconds, it copies one over for Chat to load. This doesn’t copy over BubbleChat if you have that enabled, but I’m sure we’re all here to just test chat commands.
TL;DR Roblox Studio still creates the client far too fast than normal Roblox games in which the server had 2-4 seconds to run, to parent things to the locations needed. The local player didn’t get the ChatScript from StarterPlayerScripts since it didn’t have it parented yet.
If you use BubbleChat ingame and want to make sure BubbleChat also works too, set it to true, else false.
This script goes as a localscript into game.StarterPlayer.StarterPlayerScripts.
wait(1.5)
local RunService=game:GetService("RunService")
local BubbleChatEnabled=true
if RunService:IsStudio() then
local PlayerScripts=game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerScripts")
local ChatScript=PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("ChatScript",3)
local BubbleChat=PlayerScripts:FindFirstChild("BubbleChat") --we already waited 3 seconds, this should exist if it exists.
local chatService=game:GetService("Chat")
wait(.1)
if not ChatScript then
ChatScript=chatService:WaitForChild("ChatScript") --since the PlayerScripts doesn't have it, grab it from chatService.
wait(.1)
ChatScript.Archivable=true
ChatScript:Clone().Parent=PlayerScripts
end
if not BubbleChat and BubbleChatEnabled and game.Chat.BubbleChatEnabled==false then
BubbleChat=chatService:WaitForChild("BubbleChat")
wait(.1)
BubbleChat.Archivable=true
BubbleChat:Clone().Parent=PlayerScripts
end
end
Edit: Updated 2/13, Seems items inside the scripts also may not be replicated yet before cloning, another wait.
Edit: Updated 2/14, Set archivable true and check if using new or old bubble chat.
Edit: Cleaned it up, 2/18
This bug has shown up in my game and this bug becomes very annoying when you want to test a script that works when you send a specific message in the roblox chat so hopefully it gets fixed soon.
ChatScript doesn’t seem to be archivable, and you can’t clone non-archivable objects (or I couldn’t, at least). I reworked your script with this in mind, this doesn’t support bubblechat though (because it’s a property under the Chat service now).
wait(1)
RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
Chat = game:GetService("Chat")
if RunService:IsStudio() then
local playerScripts = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerScripts")
local chatScript = playerScripts:WaitForChild("ChatScript", 5)
if not chatScript then
Chat:WaitForChild("ChatScript").Archivable = true
wait(0.2)
Chat:WaitForChild("ChatScript"):Clone().Parent = playerScripts
end
end
