<function name="OnPlayerChat" parent="GM" type="hook"> <ishook>yes</ishook> <description> Called whenever a player sends a chat message. For the serverside equivalent, see <page>GM:PlayerSay</page>. <note>The text input of this hook depends on <page>GM:PlayerSay</page>. If it is suppressed on the server, it will be suppressed on the client.</note> </description> <realm>Client</realm> <predicted>No</predicted> <args> <arg name="ply" type="Player">The player</arg> <arg name="text" type="string">The message&#x27;s text</arg> <arg name="text" type="string">The message's text</arg> <arg name="teamChat" type="boolean">Is the player typing in team chat?</arg> <arg name="isDead" type="boolean">Is the player dead?</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="boolean">Should the message be suppressed?</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Code from base gamemode. See garrysmod/gamemodes/base/gamemode/cl_init.lua#L139</description> <code> function GM:OnPlayerChat( player, strText, bTeamOnly, bPlayerIsDead ) -- -- I've made this all look more complicated than it is. Here's the easy version -- -- chat.AddText( player, Color( 255, 255, 255 ), ": ", strText ) -- local tab = {} if ( bPlayerIsDead ) then table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 30, 40 ) ) table.insert( tab, "*DEAD* " ) end if ( bTeamOnly ) then table.insert( tab, Color( 30, 160, 40 ) ) table.insert( tab, "(TEAM) " ) end if ( IsValid( player ) ) then table.insert( tab, player ) else table.insert( tab, "Console" ) end table.insert( tab, Color( 255, 255, 255 ) ) table.insert( tab, ": "..strText ) chat.AddText( unpack(tab) ) return true end </code> </example> <example> <description>How you could create a clientside only chat command.</description> <code> hook.Add( "OnPlayerChat", "HelloCommand", function( ply, strText, bTeam, bDead ) if ( ply != LocalPlayer() ) then return end strText = string.lower( strText ) -- make the string lower case if (strText == "/hello") then -- if the player typed /hello then print("Hello world!") -- print Hello world to the console return true -- this suppresses the message from being shown end end ) </code> <output>Prints "Hello world!" to the console when you type /hello in the chat.</output> </example>