Custom Roles In Text Chat

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I was wondering if someone could help me/teach me Lua so that I could make a script that would do this function

Citizen | Text Chat Here
Police | Text Chat Here

So if you were a cop it would show that youre a cop when texting in the chat and if youre a citizen then do the same thing but i would eventually want it to be more advanced so i could put custom roles i.e.

Store Clerk | Text Chat Here
State Trooper | Text Chat Here
Police Officer | Text Chat Here

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I have been wanting this for a while, hopefully it gets made!

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AddEventHandler('chatMessage', function(s, n, m)
    if GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == 'steam:11000011865d06f' then 
        TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, 'Citizen | ' .. n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
	CancelEvent()
    end
end)

But you need to change the steamid.

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This looks good, but where do we put it?

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needs to go into chat_server

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Ok, thank you very much.

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do you change the steamid for each person that you want to have that title?

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If you want anyone joining to have civ title then find

    if not WasEventCanceled() then
        TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, name, color, message)
    end

and change it to

    if not WasEventCanceled() then
        TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, 'Citizen | ' name, color, message)
    end

Otherwise use for custom titles… There’s easier way to use this but it’s simple. so.

AddEventHandler('chatMessage', function(s, n, m)
    if GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == 'steam:11000011865d06f' then 
        TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, 'Owner | ' .. n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
	CancelEvent()
    end
end)
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I personally wouldn’t edit the core server files such as chat. It can easily be added just like any other script.

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do you know how to add something like this?

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Just put the code into a .lua along with a __resource.lua that says it is server side code. Then add it to your list of auto start resources.

Code 
local groupOne = {"steam:XXXXXXX", "steam:XXXXXXX", "steam:XXXXXXX"}
local groupTwo = {"steam:XXXXXXX", "steam:XXXXXXX", "steam:XXXXXXX"}
local sent

AddEventHandler('chatMessage', function(s, n, m)
	CancelEvent()
	sent = false
	for i=1, #groupOne do
		if GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == groupOne[i] then
			TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, "GroupOne | " .. n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
		elseif GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == groupTwo[i] then
			TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, "GroupTwo | " .. n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
		elseif sent == false
			TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', -1, "None | " .. n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
			sent = true
		end
	end
end)
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will Defrfinately try this thank you

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When you use a command such as the ones in the EssentialMode admin plugin, the command works but it shows the command after. Is there a way to fix this?

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So the __resource would look like this

resource_manifest_version ‘77731fab-63ca-442c-a67b-abc70f28dfa5’

server_script ‘sv_chat.lua’

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When you use a command such as the ones in the EssentialMode admin plugin, the command works but it shows the command after. Is there a way to fix this? <

Try adding CancelEvent() somewhere in the code that handles the commands.

So the __resource would look like this

resource_manifest_version ‘77731fab-63ca-442c-a67b-abc70f28dfa5’

server_script ‘sv_chat.lua’

If you have the code inside a file called sv_chat.lua then yes.

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Ok, will try and see if it works.

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local Director = {“steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”}
local Rockwall County Sheriffs Office = {“steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”}
local Rockwall Police Department = {“steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”}
local Texas Department of Public Safety = {“steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”}
local Civilian = {“steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”, “steam:XXXXXXX”}
local sent

AddEventHandler(‘chatMessage’, function(s, n, m)
CancelEvent()
sent = false
for i=1, #groupOne do
if GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == groupOne[i] then
TriggerClientEvent(‘chatMessage’, -1, "GroupOne | " … n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
elseif GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == groupTwo[i] then
TriggerClientEvent(‘chatMessage’, -1, "GroupTwo | " … n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
elseif sent == false
TriggerClientEvent(‘chatMessage’, -1, "None | " … n, { 255, 0, 0 }, m)
sent = true
end
end
end)

Where would I go from here

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Well the variable names can’t have spaces, so Director is fine but Rockwall County Sherrifs Office would need to be changed to something like RCSO or Rockwall_County… Same for the other names.

Then just change:
if GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == groupOne[i] then
to
if GetPlayerIdentifiers(s)[1] == Director[i] then
and add more elseif statements which have your other tables.

Also just to make sure, you gotta change “steam:XXXXXX” to actual steam IDs in that format

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ok thank you so much this was a lot of help

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Could you add one person to multiple groups?