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chat.AddText

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Description

Adds text to the local player's chat box (which only they can read).

Arguments

1 vararg arguments
The message to be added to the chat box.

Arguments can be:

  • table - Color. Will set the color for all following strings until the next Color argument.
  • string - Text to be added to the chat box.
  • Player - Adds the name of the player in the player's team color to the chat box.
  • any - Any other type, such as Entity will be converted to string and added as text.

These argument types can be combined to create formatted messages.

Example

Prints the player's name and current weapon to their chat area.

local ply = LocalPlayer() chat.AddText( -- Sets the text color of upcoming strings to blue Color( 100, 100, 255 ), -- A Player whose name will be automatically colored according to their team color -- Note: this will ignore the string color set on the line above ply, -- A string which will be colored blue because of the text color set above ", you are holding ", -- Sets the text color to green Color( 100, 255, 100 ), -- A string which will be colored green ply:GetActiveWeapon():GetClass() )
Output:

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