Is it possible to change the chat speakers name without it affecting everyone else?

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#1

Lets say for example, I wanted to create a group. And everyone in that group would have they’re speaker name set to “[REDACED]” but everyone who wasn’t in the group would have their name be normal.

Before you go at me with this, yes I know there have been similar posts before, but none pertaining to this in particular. This one affects everyone in the game, I have tried it and I can’t seem to find a way around it. This one was kinda hard for me to follow, honestly, so if you could dumb it down for me, I would thank you in advance!

Could this be possible or achievable, I thank you for taking the times to read this and I thank you for the help in advance! :smile:

#2

It isn’t possible to modify the speaker’s name but you can modify the label by forking the chat scripts. Then do an if statement ex. (if button.Text == '[ROBLOX]' then). Problem is that this would override their names if they’re using a display name. But you could also just get a fork pre-display names.

#3

I see, where would this line of code be place though, I’m guessing somewhere in the default chats module?

#4

Yeah, it would be inside of the default chat modules.

Just do ctrl+shift+f and search "[%s and it will bring up all of the mentions of formatted strings (which includes usernames). You’d have to modify each script individually.

#5

I’ve tried this before and tested it with a friend and it would override his username as well, instead of just mine.

#6

Weird. Did you try making an if statement to check if the button’s text was [Valuent]?

I’ve also run into the unreliability of using this as I was creating multicoloured chat tags and sometimes the whole chat would go rainbow. It’s also kind of hard to read the chat modules which sucks.

#7

This is what you mean correct?

local formatUseName

	if speakerName == "SNACKRR"  then
		formatUseName = string.format("[%s]", "Robux")
	else
		formatUseName = string.format("[%s]", "No robux")
	end
#8

Yeah.

Try something like this, post-format.

   if ChatSettings.PlayerDisplayNamesEnabled and messageData.SpeakerDisplayName then
		formatUseName = string.format("[%s]:", speakerDisplayName)
	else
		formatUseName = string.format("[%s]:", fromSpeaker)
	end
    if formatUseName == '[SNACKRR]:' then
        formatUseName = '[Robux]:'
    else
        formatUseName = '[No robux]'
    end
#9

Ahh, I see what you’re going for, sadly, there’s an error @ speakerDisplayName, saying the following: string expected, got nil. speakerDisplayName is underelined red, did you mean extraData.DisplayName?

#10

Are you using an old fork? If so, it’s likely display names weren’t out when your version was forked. You would have to just do something like that, create a variable in the scope of both if statements and then check if the string is equal to something. If so, then change it if that makes sense.

#11

To be honest, not really, that doesn’t make sense, I apologize, not very fluent with chat API. Also how would I tell if it’s an old fork, would it be by the creation of the game or simply when I forked it?

#12

Nah, don’t apologize. Nothing to be sorry for haha, probably my explanation.

So before you added that if statement, it likely looked something like this, right?

    local formatUseName
	formatUseName = string.format("[%s]", speakerName)

So, add another if statement

    local formatUseName
	formatUseName = string.format("[%s]", speakerName)

    if formatUseName == '[SNACKRR]' then
        formatUseName = '[Robux]'
    else
        formatUseName = '[No robux]'
    end
#13

I see, thank you thank you, it works, but I don’t believe this would work locally would it, since it’s housed in a module script?

#14

Nevermind, ignore my stupidity, it works perfectly, thank you very much!