Custom Chat Tags

Creating custom chat tags for certain players in your game is fairly simple. You can start off by creating a Script in ServerScriptService.

We are creating the script in ServerScriptService becuase that is where the ChatServiceRunner is located when the game starts

Let's start off by defining Players

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Our next step is to create a variable for our chat tag and assign it to a certain username. The code example provided would give the "Owner" tag to "UndecidedFactor" and "boatbomber".

local Owner = {UndecidedFactor = true, boatbomber = true}

Next, let's add a PlayerAdded function where we will set the tags. We will also add the ChatService variable inside this function because the player loads before ChatService.

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local ChatService = require(script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner"):WaitForChild("ChatService"))
end)

After we create our PlayerAdded function, we'll assign the tags to the player. Our updated PlayerAdded function will now look like this:

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    wait(2)
-- Lets wait a few seconds to make sure the chat loaded
    local ChatService = require(script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner"):WaitForChild("ChatService"))
    if Owner[player.Name] then
 -- We add this to check if the players username is in the Owner table
        local Speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(player.Name)
-- The person chatting is the speaker
        Speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", {{TagText = "Owner", TagColor = Color3.fromRGB(100, 10, 50)}})
-- Here we add a tag with the text "Owner" and we can also set the color
    end
end)

Our final code should now look like this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Owner = {UndecidedFactor = true, boatbomber = true}

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    wait(2)
    local ChatService = require(script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner"):WaitForChild("ChatService"))
    if Owner[player.Name] then
        local Speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(player.Name)
        Speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", {{TagText = "Owner", TagColor = Color3.fromRGB(100, 10, 50)}})    end
end)

That's all! If you have any questions regarding the tutorial feel free to message UndecidedFactor on Roblox.