How would I find out certain things a player said?

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#21

I did it first on me, then I tried to do it on another player, but it kept fire at me instead.

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#22

Oh, here is the problem:

This

local character = player.Character

should be

local character = PlayerObject.Character

Edit:

(player is the player who chatted, PlayerObject is the player who the cmd was meant for)

PlayerObject is defined here:

local PlayerObject = Players:FindFirstChild(playerName)

Which means PlayerObject is the player with the name given in the cmd.

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#23

What is Player Object? and why should it be changed to that?

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#24

OH I SEE

so basically, when I put player, since player was defined as the person who sent the message, thats why the effects keep going on them?

And also, if I wanted to make more commands, would I use elseif or else ( enter ) if?

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#25

Yep! So all you need to do is switch it to the variable that represents the other player.

I’d use elseif, though both do the same thing (elseif looks nicer and is cleaner though).

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#26

Can you possibly give me an example for what it would look like If I made 2 commands with the else if? because I don’t know where to start with that.

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#27

I removed the cmd list thing, normally that table also stores functions for each command. It’s probably just easier to do the commands with if and elseif statements

local Prefix = "+"

local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
		if player.Name == "NubblyFry" then
			local Players = game:GetService("Players")

			local commandMessage = message

			-- Get the first character of the message
			local commandCharacter = string.sub(commandMessage, 1, 1)

			-- Is cmd character valid?
			if commandCharacter == "+" then
				-- Gets the list of words in commandMessage. sub is used to ignore cmd character
				local commandDetails = string.split(string.sub(commandMessage, 2, -1), " ")

				-- Name of command
				local commandName = commandDetails[1]

				-- Name of player
				local playerName = commandDetails[2]

				-- Is name of player valid?
				if Players:FindFirstChild(playerName) then
					if commandName == "smite" then
						-- Code for smite
					elseif commandName == "kill" then
						-- Code for kill or other cmd
					elseif commandName == "fling" then
						-- Code for fling or other cmd
					end
					-- If not a command with code does nothing
				end
			end
		end
	end)
end)
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#28

One last question, is it possible to delete the chat message? I want to send the chat message commands in the chat and then have it deleted by the system but still run.

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#29

Yeah. You can use the process command api for that.

This is the format for the process command stuff:

In a ModuleScript:

local ChatService = game:GetService("Chat")

local functionId = "customCommandSystem"

-- If this function returns true, the message is removed.
local function processCommand(speakerName, message, channelName)
	local speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(speakerName)
	local player = speaker:GetPlayer()
	
	if player.Name == "NubblyFry" then
		local Players = game:GetService("Players")

		local commandMessage = message

		-- Get the first character of the message
		local commandCharacter = string.sub(commandMessage, 1, 1)

		-- Is cmd character valid?
		if commandCharacter == "+" then
			-- Gets the list of words in commandMessage. sub is used to ignore cmd character
			local commandDetails = string.split(string.sub(commandMessage, 2, -1), " ")

			-- Name of command
			local commandName = commandDetails[1]

			-- Name of player
			local playerName = commandDetails[2]

			-- Is name of player valid?
			if Players:FindFirstChild(playerName) then
				if commandName == "smite" then
					-- Code for smite
					
					return true -- If fling command remove message
				elseif commandName == "kill" then
					-- Code for kill or other cmd
					
					return true -- If fling command remove message
				elseif commandName == "fling" then
					-- Code for fling or other cmd
					
					return true -- If fling command remove message
				end
				-- If not a command with code does nothing
				
				return false -- If not a command doesn't remove message
			end
		end
	end
end

local function runChatModule(ChatService)
	ChatService:RegisterProcessCommandsFunction(functionId, processCommand)
end

return runChatModule

Then put the module script inside a server script, and put this code into the server script:

local ChatService = game:GetService("Chat")

local moduleScript = script:FindFirstChildOfClass("ModuleScript")

-- This is where the module script needs to be placed
moduleScript.Parent = ChatService:WaitForChild("ChatModules")

Note with this the code can’t yield, so you should use task.spawn to stop your command’s code from yielding:

Ex:

task.spawn(function()
local SmiteBlock = RS:WaitForChild("commandObjects"):WaitForChild("Smite")			
	local PlayerObject = Players:FindFirstChild(playerName)			
	local character = player.Character			
	local ThunderSound = Instance.new("Sound", game.Workspace)
	ThunderSound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://357559831"			
	ThunderSound:Play()			
	SmiteBlock.Position = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position			
	task.wait(0.2)			
	SmiteBlock:Destroy()
end)