How to Add Custom Player Icons to Chat

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#2

Great tutorial, thanks!! I’ve always tried to add in my own elements but was only restricted to text, now I can add icons!

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#3

Wow… thats actually really cool!

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#4

This will be extremely useful when you need point out things like game moderators instead of using the standard text tags or chat colors. I have actually always wondered if this was possible but never got around to trying it out myself. Nice work! I’ll definitely be trying this out.

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#5

i remember back in 2012 where custom icons were able to be added to the playerlist… this is JUST as cool!!!

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#6

Good job on this. I ended up doing something similar with mine from the original post. Excellent work compiling this thread.

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#7

Woah, this is going to be great - about to go and add it to my game now :pray:
Edit:
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This looks pretty cool.

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#8

There’s a problem, isn’t there someway to set it by grabbing the decal? Because subtracting the number takes longer since Roblox is trying to patch it cause users are stealing other user’s clothing.

#9

Decal IDs are different from image IDs. You can get the image ID by finding the image you want in the toolbox, and then right-clicking on it and choosing the “copy image URL” option. Subtracting numbers from the decal ID until you find the image ID isn’t really feasible anymore.

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#10

I found two other ways of doing this easily with an extension, and another way by doing it VIA studio:

  1. BTRoblox: Find it VIA Chrome store, you can see it here > Find the decal, click from your images on the create page to be directed to the decal page > You’ll see an image button on the top right area (as seen here) > Click the image button, it will take you directly to the page where your image is (as seen here)

  2. Studio: Workspace > + > Decal > Properties > Paste in your decal ID > Wait a second, you’ll notice the ID changes > Your ID will then be converted to the image asset ID, just copy it from the decal properties and you’ll find it. Gyazo Preview

I personally use BTRoblox for multiple things, it has many benefits including being able to view model sources from the site including scripts.
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The second one is practically pointless, it’s much easier doing it the way mentioned by ChipioIndustries.

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#11

Love this! However I am having a problem. The image does not appear in chat and I am getting this error in output;

19:39:27.941 - Mesh Manager: http request failed, contentid: 'rbxassetid://4342232872', exception: HTTP 403 (Forbidden)

I don’t know why, does somebody know how I can fix this?

sorry

just read the discussion, I was using the decal id, not image.

#12

How did u set it in the ExtraDataInitializer?

#13

I got it working. I don’t really understand the question, but it was because I was using the decal id, not the image id

#14

Alright, I mean’t that too my bad.

#15

Any idea what i have done here?

https://gyazo.com/b77a0c57d57004d586fb9de5efc080cc

should only show 1.

#16

Afraid I can’t help ya much without being able to see your code. Try adding print statements in various spots to figure out what might be going wrong.

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#17

I copied the code exactly as it said.

I worked out why it is putting the image twice but any idea why it is in the middle of my name?

#18

I believe it is where the icons are added to the player.

How would i fix this (i used your code exactly as you typed it)

#19

This is quite an interesting idea. You could show in-game clans and much more like real moderators instead of 9-year olds pretending to be mods.

#20

Great! Now I can add this free model to my camping game :roblox:

#21

I can’t help you fix your script if you won’t provide it. If your code isn’t functioning the same way as mine, there must be a mistake somewhere. Try just using the free model and seeing if that works.

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