Need help displaying display names in TextChatService

[Oofers_toPoofers]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve?

   I need to display all players display names in chat

2. What is the issue?

   This feature is integrated already as a default for games, but for this one somehow it got disabled and for the life of me i cannot figure out how to fix it. It shows the player’s actual username in chat, but i need the display name.

3. What solutions have you tried so far?

   After searching the devforum i see stuff on how to disable displaynames, but not how to enable them (yes i’ve tried to reverse this process to no avail). There is fix i can see that will help me re-enable these display names that used to be default in the new TextChatService as shown here.

I tried to use this code, and it works except for the part where it doesn’t display the client it runs on’s display name, just everyone elses.

I tried this code already to fix it, maybe i was on the right track??

-- this is on the client
local PlayersService = game:GetService("Players")
local TextChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")

local localPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local function onMessageReceived(textChatMessage: TextChatMessage)
	local textSource = textChatMessage.TextSource
	local chattingPlayer = if textSource
		then PlayersService:GetPlayerByUserId(textSource.UserId)
		else nil

	if chattingPlayer then
		textChatMessage.PrefixText = (textChatMessage.PrefixText:gsub(chattingPlayer.Name, chattingPlayer.DisplayName))
	end
end
local function onSendingMessage(textChatMessage: TextChatMessage)
	textChatMessage.PrefixText = (textChatMessage.PrefixText:gsub(localPlayer.Name, localPlayer.DisplayName))
end

-- connect to events
TextChatService.MessageReceived:Connect(onMessageReceived)
TextChatService.SendingMessage:Connect(onSendingMessage)

Thank you for in advance!

[Haydz6 (Cookie)]

Do you have any other code that interfaces with MessageReceived and SendingMessage?
Seems like some other script such as the ChatColours could be changing the prefix

[Oofers_toPoofers]

this is that script

--!strict

----------------- ╭──────────╮ -----------------
----------------- │ Services │ -----------------
----------------- ╰──────────╯ -----------------
local PLAYERS           = game:GetService("Players")
local TEXT_CHAT_SERVICE = game:GetService("TextChatService")



--============================================--

---------------- ╭───────────╮ -----------------
---------------- │ Functions │ -----------------
---------------- ╰───────────╯ -----------------
function OnIncomingMsg(msg: TextChatMessage)
    local player = PLAYERS:GetPlayerByUserId(msg.TextSource.UserId)
    local minutes = player.leaderstats.Minutes.Value
    local properties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")
    properties.PrefixText = 
        if minutes < 5000 
        then `<font color="#FFF"><b>{msg.TextSource.Name}:</b></font>`
        else `<font color="rgb(247, 38, 59)"><b>{msg.TextSource.Name}:</b></font>`
    return properties
end

-------------- ╭────────────────╮ --------------
-------------- │ Initialisation │ --------------
-------------- ╰────────────────╯ --------------
TEXT_CHAT_SERVICE.OnIncomingMessage = OnIncomingMsg

This script throws an error about textsource being nil. Disabling it fixes chat display names. I also cannot figure out what is wrong with this one, this was done by someone else. Any help would be appreciated! thanks for pointing that out to me!

[Haydz6 (Cookie)]

You need to get the user’s display name from player.DisplayName, not msg.TextSource.Name

--!strict

----------------- ╭──────────╮ -----------------
----------------- │ Services │ -----------------
----------------- ╰──────────╯ -----------------
local PLAYERS           = game:GetService("Players")
local TEXT_CHAT_SERVICE = game:GetService("TextChatService")



--============================================--

---------------- ╭───────────╮ -----------------
---------------- │ Functions │ -----------------
---------------- ╰───────────╯ -----------------
function OnIncomingMsg(msg: TextChatMessage)
	local player = PLAYERS:GetPlayerByUserId(msg.TextSource.UserId)
	local minutes = player.leaderstats.Minutes.Value
	local properties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")
	properties.PrefixText = 
		if minutes < 5000 
		then `<font color="#FFF"><b>{player.DisplayName}:</b></font>`
		else `<font color="rgb(247, 38, 59)"><b>{player.DisplayName}:</b></font>`
	return properties
end

-------------- ╭────────────────╮ --------------
-------------- │ Initialisation │ --------------
-------------- ╰────────────────╯ --------------
TEXT_CHAT_SERVICE.OnIncomingMessage = OnIncomingMsg

[Haydz6 (Cookie)]

And for the nil error, do you have any sort of custom system messages in-game?

[Oofers_toPoofers]

i do not! its just the random color stuff this guy did, it was done without my knowledge. and the client display name script which basically works except for the local player

[Oofers_toPoofers]

thank you so much! i completely missed this and figured it out myself at the same time. Literally dk how i missed it. Thanks again