How do I change System Text's Color on the new TextChatService?

[qMrSpooky (Nox)]

I’ve been messing around with the TextChatService, and I wanted to make system messages. After finally getting the code to work (using code for LegacyTextService didn’t work) I managed to make them. A problem that I have is that they’re white (just as if a player would type it). I want to make them a different color, which I knew was possible with the old text service, but I’m stuck here.

the LocalScript in my StarterPlayersScripts:

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local replstorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Event = replstorage.Events:WaitForChild("Chatted")

Event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(msg)
	task.wait(.1)
	game:GetService("TextChatService").ChatWindowConfiguration.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(170, 255, 255)
	local m = game:GetService("TextChatService").TextChannels.RBXGeneral:DisplaySystemMessage(msg)
end)

I’ve tried changing its color, but that changes the whole chat instead of just that message

[qMrSpooky (Nox)]

Update: Fixed because of this Chad script, it has prefixes, colors etc and a hell of a lot of customization. Recommend this!

TextChatService+

TextChatService+ [image] What is it? This script uses the utilizes the new TextChatService to add prefixes (chat tags), name colors (classic or chosen), and chat colors (in the future). The customization allows for you to assign these to players, groups, gamepass owners, badge owners, team players, players with a tag, and players with an attribute. Quick Note This is a proof of concept and is not yet fully optimized. I just wanted to get it out as quickly as I could so that people could h…

[be_nj (benjj)]

For those who are reading this in the future, you can use TextChannel.OnIncomingMessage or TextChatService.OnIncomingMessage to handle this in the future.

The two properties are similar except TextChannel’s will only run on messages that go through the channel and TextChatService’s will run on all messages.

For example, this snippet will change the message color of all messages that would display in the default RBXSystem channel.

TextChatService.OnIncomingMessage = function(textChatMessage)
    local textChannel = textChatMessage.TextChannel
    if textChannel and textChannel.Name == "RBXSystem" then
        local overrideProperties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")
        overrideProperties.Message = string.format("<font color='#FF0000'>%s</font>", textChatMessage.Text)
        return overrideProperties
    else
        return nil
    end
end