Replace every letter on a player's message

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#1

Hello im trying to replace every letter on a player’s message to ‘d’, but i do not know how could i do this. Thanks.

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#2

Whoa whoa whoa, wait a second though. You’re aware Roblox demands the final message be sanitized through Roblox and must be filtered, right? It’s a subject of moderation against your experience if not.

And why not just disable chat if you are replacing the message to something like that?

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#3

That’s what i was going to ask when they were going to give me the solution though
It’s a small test im making, im kind of new to scripting

By ‘d’ i meant any letter, sorry.

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#4

Well, it’s a difficult question. It’s about intercepting messages that are sent through the ChatService, which is a fairly large and complicated module.

It’s far easier to just disable chat, isn’t that what the result would be equivalent to if every letter of a message is replaced with 'd’s

#5

Im trying to get something like this:
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Which get’s turn to this depending on how much letters you have.
image

Since i a bit new to scripting i dind’t knew that roblox wouldn’t filter the message.

#6

I would be careful with that because you’re really not allowed to modify the output of chat to just anything, it must be sanitized and filtered through Roblox.

However, I would take a deep dive into ChatService.
You can do that by pressing play in Studio then copying what is created in Chat/
exiting play, then pasting what you copied into Chat/
then you may look through the modules

#7

Ill better disable the chat, im not taking the risk of getting banned, thanks though.

#8

If you can find exactly where the message is sent into the chat window,
then you could use something like

for i = 1, #message do
  if message[i] == " " then continue end
  message[i] = 'd'
end
print(message)
#9

Alright, ill try, also, couldn’t you make something like a custom message filtering to make it not happen?

#10

Yeah you can create custom filter, but at the end what’s custom-filtered still must be sent to Roblox. It’s a rule. So, I mean, if you create a custom filter and that converts all letters of a message to d’s then you send that to Roblox, Roblox could still filter that into ######### #### ###### so I can’t imagine the usefulness is worth the difficulty.

At the end of the day, you’d get something like:
dddd dddd #### dd ## ddddd #### ## ## dd dd d ### ddd

And you’ve gotta consider that not every language is english, so how would you filter spanish or german or arabic.

#11

I think i could also use something called string.gsub() right?

#12

yeah it would be something like
message = string.gsub(message, “%”, “d”)

with % a wildcard for any letter

I don’t know if string.gsub() handles white space

However, it’s very important that the final message is sent to Roblox. It’s a rule, you cannot avoid without moderation.

#13 
local message = "This is a message"
local length = message:len()
local result = string.rep("d", length)
print(result)

and:

local message = "This is a message"
local result = message:gsub(".", "d")
print(result)
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#14

You can achieve this by adding your own module inside ChatModules (the code I gave you also filters the message before sending).

You are going to need a server script inside ServerScriptService, and a module inside that script.

-- SERVER SCRIPT

local CTS = game:GetService("Chat")

local convert = script.Convert
local mod = convert:Clone() do
	mod.Parent = CTS:WaitForChild("ChatModules")
end

-- MODULE SCRIPT

local TS = game:GetService("TextService")
local PS = game:GetService("Players")

local id = "editText"

local function DoFilter(speaker, message, channel)
	local convert = string.gsub(message.Message, "%w", "d")
	local filtered
	local player = PS:FindFirstChild(speaker)
	
	local success, error = pcall(function()
		filtered = TS:FilterStringAsync(convert, player.UserId):GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
	end)
	
	if success and filtered then
		message.Message = filtered
	else
		warn(error)
	end
end

local function RunModule(CTS)
	CTS:RegisterFilterMessageFunction(id, DoFilter)
end

return RunModule

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