UIGradient for TextChatMessage

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#1

Hi, I’m trying to completely recolor a player’s message, but it doesn’t work. Is it possible to recolor it? I got a duplicate text

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local PlayerChatHandler = {}
PlayerChatHandler.__index = PlayerChatHandler

function PlayerChatHandler.new()
    local self = setmetatable({}, PlayerChatHandler)
    
    self.services = {
        Players = game:GetService("Players"),
        TextChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")
    }

    self.chatWindowConfiguration = self.services.TextChatService.ChatWindowConfiguration
    self.gradient = Instance.new("UIGradient")
    self.gradient.Rotation = 90
    self.gradient.Color = ColorSequence.new({
        ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(0, Color3.fromRGB(0, 0, 0)),
        ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(0.5, Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)),
        ColorSequenceKeypoint.new(1, Color3.fromRGB(0, 0, 0))
    })
    
    self:ConnectEvents()
    return self
end

function PlayerChatHandler:ConnectEvents()
    self.services.TextChatService.OnChatWindowAdded = function(message: TextChatMessage)
        local properties: ChatWindowMessageProperties = self.chatWindowConfiguration:DeriveNewMessageProperties()
        if not message.TextSource then
            return
        end

		properties.PrefixText = string.format("<b>[Developer] %s %s</b>", message.PrefixText, message.Text)
		properties.PrefixTextProperties = self.chatWindowConfiguration:DeriveNewMessageProperties()
        
        self.gradient:Clone().Parent = properties.PrefixTextProperties
        return properties
    end
end

return PlayerChatHandler
#2

Your prefix text is different from your message text, you can try changing the message.Text but it can’t be empty or no messages will send