Hide chat for 1 specific player

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#1

I want to hide the chat for one player.

I have this spell which silences the target, so I want to hide the chat for that person.

I’m aware of setting the core gui chat to false but im not sure if this can be done in a local script.

#2

It can ONLY be done in a local script. So yeah, that’s the way to do it: game:GetService("StarterGui"):SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, false)

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#3

I want to hide this for one player though. Changing the whole startergui would do it for everyone, right?

Would I just change it to the target’s player gui instead of starter gui?

#4

Use a remote event, and fire that remote to a specific player you want to hide the chat from.

#5

No, not if you do it for only one player, if you place that local script in starter player and have it run immediately then it will, otherwise, not.

#6

So…

To hide it from 1 player do i just replace startergui with that player’s PlayerGui and hide chat that way

eg:

game:GetService("Players").AdSomnum.PlayerGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, false)
#7

You can’t SetCoreGuiEnabled on a players PlayerGui

#8

so how do i hide it from one player then

#9

You can try to fire a remote from the server to that specific client [using ‘FireClient’] and then, on the client, disable the chat for him using the method mentioned above.

#10

so

event:FireClient(targetplayer, "HideChat")

and then

event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(targetplayer, hidechat)
if hidechat then
game:GetService("StarterGui"):SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, false)
#11

Alright, I just made a test to confirm it works:
(BTW Remotes folder in ReplicatedStorage with a HideChat remote event.)
Local script (StarterPlayerScripts):

local Remotes = game.ReplicatedStorage.Remotes
local HideChat = Remotes.HideChat
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

HideChat.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	print(Player.Name.." has fired HideChat")
	game:GetService("StarterGui"):SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, false)
end)

Then in a server script just call FireClient(Player) on the Player you want to hide it for.

#12

do you think my script would work as well?

#13

Remove targetplayer from that line, you don’t specify the player parameter there with OnClientEvent but you still need to pass it in

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#14

where do i put this script? StarterPlayerScripts?

#15

Yes. That’ll work just fine. .