Interesting, I never saw it before. Is it possible that it did cut off, meaning it did not obscure other messages
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Iām not sure, but my best guess is that those characters couldnāt be displayed by the font, or like you said, where it cuts off.
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No way, I didnāt know about this.
I know why it happens, I was pointing out that it can be an issue.
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Iāve been running into quite a massive problem with the new TextChatService in my game called RE:KL ( Re: Kingdom Life (Chat fixes) - Roblox )
Iāve managed to solve the bubblechat UI overlapping overhead character bioās, but a new problem arose soon enough! Sometimes the chat bubbles do not appear at all over a playerās head, or they appear but only for a split second. Iām sure you can imagine how infuriating this can feel for players in a roleplaying game.
For example, in the image below, this player has just typed 4 message in a row before taking the image.
As you can see, there are no chat bubbles. For some players they work, for some they donāt.
The game uses streamingenabled.
I love the new chat system and this problem doesnāt occur with the old one. Do you guys have any suggestions as to what I could try? I am willing to provide more info if that would help. Thanks!
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Do you run any unconventional character loading logic (i.e. messing with .CharacterAdded and reloading characters, turning CharacterAutoLoads off, adding custom character rigs, etc)?
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At most I weld things to the player during run-time, but nothing too major or massive. This bug doesnāt always happen either, and when it happens it only does to some select people.
At the moment Iām running a few tests with the original chat in place to see if it happens as well.
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I think this is a bug with the new update, this only happened recently. Whenever I press the / key, even when the TextBox isnāt focused, it still puts a / as the first character when it should be blank when you focus the TextBox using the key. If I click the box with my mouse, this doesnāt happen, hopefully this update will be fixed, and as another suggestion, could you please create a function that clears the chat window like /cls.
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Hi, Iām having trouble replicating this issue on my end (with StreamingEnabled), do you also have any chat related modifiers (for example in the screenshot I donāt see a chat input bar or chat window), or any changes to chat bubble appearance distance?
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Please check this post for more information, but basically a fix is on the way and it was caused by a recent change to input processing.
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Love this update, before when this was brand new i did not like it, but now with all the bug fixes I love it! Keep up the good work guys!
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I put in a feature request on this BETA, and wondering is it filed internally and whatās the timeline on it because this feature could be really used in all types of games not just mine.
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/chat-channel-questions/2022365/16?u=bulldo344
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Weāre currently aligning on finalizing UI/UX for channel tabs and also parallelizing some higher priority, frequently requested support on other developer requested features such as increased bubble chat customization, cleaner NPC text support, and various small quality of life requests mentioned in this and other posts.
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TextChatService Bug Report
Putting my reports here as suggested in New In-Experience Text Chat System Public Release! - #285 by SubtleShuttle.
These issues have only been in my game ever since I moved over to the new TextChatService.
[Bubble Chat]
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Reports of bubble chat disappearing too quickly (within a second of being sent) or not showing up at all. This seems to be happening locally as the players cannot see chat bubbles from everyone on the server. I havenāt experienced this bug personally, but I know a lot of players have. This occurs on both PC and mobile devices.
Proof 1 (Sent in by a player - sorry for the bad quality)
Proof 2 (Sent in by a player)
Proof 3 (Sent in by a player)
Proof 4 (Sent in by a player) -
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game:GetService(āChatā):Chat()for NPCs is a similar issue to the point before. The chat bubbles fail to appear sometimes. Some players can see their chats and other players canāt.
These are the main issues Iāve had with the chat which have been ongoing issues for a while now.
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Thank you for the screen captures, weāre prioritizing investigating this issue.
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Adding on to this, I have had a report from a player that bubble chat messages are not disappearing at all. Iāll edit if I uncover more details.
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Based on the response that I received here, there are some things that I would like to see as a feature added.
In the legacy LUA chat system, I had the ability to restrict commands to specific channels so only those players who were in those channels could execute them. This is in addition to what permissions the player has. So an admin or moderator could /kick a player, but only from the admin channel. It also provided a private channel for moderators and admins to talk to each other. Now itās just strictly player permissions, which I guess is ok.
Another feature that I would like to see (others have requested this as well), is a flag in the command definition instance to make the command case-insensitive. So /cOmmAND is the same as /command which is also the same as /COMMAND.
Beyond that, Iām going to have to do a rethink on how my command architecture is setup.
If you look at the code to my game, I am using non-player speakers for server generated announcements. The announcements alert players to when someone was killed, who killed them, with what weapon, etcā¦ It also alerts the players when someone enters the game, if a player gets an arm or leg taken off, falls to their death, or dies due to some environmental factor (like trying to swim in lava). So until that actually gets added, I cannot migrate over to the new system.
As for the system messages, Iām working on that. But what @SubtleShuttle mentioned below is an issue:
The problem with that example is that we are not allowed to know the age of the player. Because of this, we cannot make that distinction. Is this going to change in the future? Will there be a new parameter for us to indicate an age range so Roblox can maintain user privacy? System messages and system messages and are important for a reason. The indicate important status changes in the server. Therefore they should be broadcast to all players on the server regardless of their age. Having it on a per-client basis is asinine. I can see a per-client basis of having messages from a a non-player speaker, but not system messages.
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Iāve noticed that bright violet color doesnāt match up in the new system, can you please provide the new colors or is there a function to get the color for a players name.
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Any updates on customizable bubble chat for specific chat channels? I am specifically asking for this level of customization on individual team chats and whispers. For example, I would want the green team to have their team chat bubble color to be light green. Blue team should have their team bubble chat color be light blue and so on.
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Is there a way to get a sending clients message before it reachās the server and sink it? The new command system could be handy but itād prefer not to be forced to use it. Especially with the fact that it is case sensitive and it forces me to replicate commands the client isnāt permitted to use.
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