<function name="AddText" parent="chat" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Adds text to the local player's chat box (which only they can read).</description> <realm>Client</realm> <args> <arg name="arguments" type="vararg"> The message to be added to the chat box. Arguments can be: * <page>table</page> - <page>Color</page>. Will set the color for all following strings until the next Color argument. * <page>Color</page> - Will set the color for all following strings until the next Color argument. * <page>string</page> - Text to be added to the chat box. * <page>Player</page> - Adds the name of the player in the player's team color to the chat box. * <page>any</page> - Any other type, such as <page>Entity</page> will be converted to string and added as text. These argument types can be combined to create formatted messages. </arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Prints the player's name and current weapon to their chat area.</description> <code> 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() ) </code> <output><image src="chat_AddText.png" alt="center"/></output> </example>