My VIP nametag script isn't working

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#1

I’m trying to make it where if you have a pass, you get a nametag in chat. One script is a local script in StarterPlayerScripts, and the other is a script in ServerScriptService. Here’s the local one that is supposed to add the nametag:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local TextChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")
local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

TextChatService.OnIncomingMessage = function(message:TextChatMessage)
	local properties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")
	
	if message.TextSource then
		local sender = Players:GetPlayerByUserId(message.TextSource.UserId)
		local hasPass = sender:GetAttribute("IsVIP")
		if hasPass then
			print("player has pass")
			properties.PrefixText = "<font color='#F5CD30'>[VIP]</font> " ..message.PrefixText
		end
	end
	return properties
end

Here’s the server one that sets if you’re VIP or not:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local hasVIP = plr:GetAttribute("IsVIP")
	local success, message = pcall(function()
		hasVIP = MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(plr.UserId, 95142223)
	end)
	if not success then
		print("Error checking VIP:"..message)
	end
	print(hasVIP)
end)

It says that I have the pass, but it won’t give me the nametag in chat. How do I fix this?

#2 
if MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(Player, "Your Pass") then
-- code here
else
-- else code here
end
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#3 
local gamepassId = 17747602 --Put your Gamepass ID here
local service = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    if (service:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(player.UserId, gamepassId)) then
        local tags = {
            {
                TagText = "👑VIP",
                TagColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 220, 20)
            }
        }
        local ChatService = require(game:GetService("ServerScriptService"):WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner").ChatService)
        local speaker = nil
        while speaker == nil do
            speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(player.Name)
            if speaker ~= nil then break end
            wait(0.01)
        end
        speaker:SetExtraData("Tags",tags)
        speaker:SetExtraData("ChatColor",Color3.fromRGB(226, 226, 0))
    end
end)

This should work if you are VIP when you have a gamepass.

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#4

@62penguins

You are setting the attribute incorrectly on the server.

Change the server script to this and see if it works:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
    local hasVIP = false -- Your mistake is getting the attribute when it hasn't been set yet
	local success, message = pcall(function()
		hasVIP = MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(plr.UserId, 95142223)
	end)
	if not success then
		print("Error checking VIP:"..message)
        return
	end
    plr:SetAttribute("IsVIP", hasVIP)
end)

The UserOwnsGamePassAsync method should always be wrapped around a pcall.

The original poster is using TextChatService, not ChatService. You also aren’t wrapping the UserOwnsGamePassAsync method around a pcall.

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#5

Im pretty sure pcall is a error handler, im not sure how that will help

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#6

Yes, and when using methods that make web requests (like UserOwnsGamePassAsync), a pcall is necessary because there is always a chance that it will fail if the web request isn’t successful. No one wants to join their game to see their gamepass(es) not loading for them.

Without a pcall, if the web request was unsuccessful, the rest of the code in the script will not execute which is very bad.

Wrapping it around a pcall will allow of the rest of the code in to execute, if the request were to fail.

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#7

Hmm. It’s still not working, but I don’t know why. I’ve done a little more research on TextChatService, and in theory, this should work. :thinking:

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#8

Are there any errors in the output?

#9

No, there are no errors. Let me check the console and maybe there’ll be something there.

#10

Strange, i never have these issues

#11

I wasn’t finding anything. There was some stuff about chat scripts in there, so I might have to look at that later, but there wasn’t much sticking out to me.

#12

So my script won’t work, that’s it?

#13

It works for ChatService (old roblox chat), but not for TextchatService, which is the new chat that roblox recently released.

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#14

I had the same problem, this might help (This is for the new chat service)

#15

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for mentioning that. :sweat_smile: I didn’t have the new TextChatService enabled. :man_facepalming:

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#16

It’s fine! We all make mistakes. Happy to help :slight_smile:

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#17

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