How to change player in chat

[Philipceo90 (Phil)]

Title says it all, player name to be different in chat

[JackscarIitt (Jackscarlett)]

Rename Chat Speaker

I fixed this issue in a system fork that I made for nicknames. To ‘rename’ a ChatSpeaker, you’ll want to set some extra data called ‘DisplayName’. You’ll need to fork the following scripts: DefaultChatMessage (to fork the chat system, run the game and copy all the items in game.Chat, stop the game and paste it back into game.Chat) Find the line that contains local formatUseName = string.format("[%s]:", fromSpeaker) and replace it with local formatUseName if extraData.DisplayName then --c…

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[Philipceo90 (Phil)]

where is the extradata.displayname

[JackscarIitt (Jackscarlett)]

In the DefaultChatMessage Chat Script I’m assuming, which holds the current Speaker name who chatted

You’ll have to replace the formatUseName line with that to rename the Chat Speaker

[Philipceo90 (Phil)]

is the extraData.Displayname a variable?

[JackscarIitt (Jackscarlett)]

It’s a property of what extraData is supposed to be I’m assuming

You’ll have to fork around with the ChatScripts, that’s all I’m gonna say