How to Display a Server Chat Message when Part is touched?

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

Hey there!

I am trying to get a Part to display a specific server text message in the player’s chatbox whenever a specific Part is touched. I know how to display server chat messages using StarterGui but I do not know how to get this function to work or communicate with whenever a Part in Workspace is .Touched.

StarterGui script:

local function ChatMessage(text)
	game.TextChatService.TextChannels.RBXGeneral:DisplaySystemMessage(text)
end

[toastaspiring]

use a local script to detect “.Touched” that fires a remote event, then in a script handle the server message, otherwise only your player will see the message

as for making a message in the chat, you can look into this article

[kol11kol]

Make server script detecting touch and firing RE.

ServerScriptService:

 Part.Touched:Connect(function()
      TouchRE:FireAllClients()
end

then make local script:
that displays message

StarterPlayerScripts:

TouchRE.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	ChatService:WaitForChild("TextChannels"):WaitForChild("RBXSystem"):DisplaySystemMessage("Message There!")
end)

[kol11kol]

Oh, my bad do
local ChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

theres and error message:

Players.ahmingiscool.PlayerScripts.Chat System:6: attempt to index nil with ‘Name’

[kol11kol]

Delate this line it is part of one of my old scripts that was printing player name so the name is there I didn’t see that sorry.

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

Is it possible to turn this into a function where whenever I need to send a server message in a server script, I can use the function in server script to call the local script to send a chat message?

[kol11kol]

Yes, you just need to change the event that fires the function on server.

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

What exactly do you mean by changing the event? Currently the remote event is fired on the server and received by the local script, which displays whatever message I place in between :DisplaySystemMessage("Message There!").

I would have to change it to :DisplaySystemMessage(text) in LocalScript and have the text as an argument for a function in ServerScript?

[kol11kol]

You want to display text sent from server?

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

I want to make it so I can send the text message via a function from a server script. Currently this will only send whatever message I set in the LocalScript.

[kol11kol]

Just send txt via RE

Part.Touched:Connect(function()
    local text = ""
    TouchRE:FireAllClients(text)
end

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

Ah…I thought it was more complicated than that. Did one previously for GUIs and it was definitely tedious. Will give this a try and let you know if there are any problems. Thanks