How to make rp name in roblox

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In some games in roblox like Super Hero Life II, Robloxian Highschool, the players’ roleplay names appear in the chat instead of their actual names like this:

I was wondering how i could do that in my game and make it so players’ roleplay names actually appear on the chat like that.

Thanks!

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Hello Developers! Currently, I’m trying to rename a player speaker so if is in a team his name in the classic chat can be changed to Classified or to another player name. I have a look into the forums and the chat service, but nothing really worked. So here my problem is there any way to rename a player speaker? If so is there a function in the chat service?

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After looking for a while that did help but did not solve the problem

You need to set the extra data now, it’s kinda like making chat tags:

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Just a second, i’ll test it out

Ok, i made a textbox and a button for the name. This is the script i used

And then for the server script i used yours

And yet it didn’t work

Did i do something wrong?

Did you do everything that the forum post said? It should work if you’ve done that.

I did do the modifications in the chat script

No, but i’m pretty sure the error is in the server script, i inserted prints in both scripts and the server script didn’t print

Is the server script in ServerScriptService?

It’s in a folder inside it. So yes

I’m 90% sure the error is in one of these two lines

Well if it’s in a folder then it wouldn’t be local ChatService = require(**script.Parent**:WaitForChild('ChatServiceRunner'):WaitForChild('ChatService'))

It should be script.Parent.Parent in that case.

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Yep, that solved it.

Everything is working.

Thanks a lot! And sorry for not realizing that lol

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How do I make a Roleplay Name GUI that you can customise the colours (I already have a basic RP name with just grey text)

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If you need to color text of Gui instances set the TextColor3 property.

TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0, 0) --red text

I said i already have the RP name but i don’t know how to make it with colors

I added how to achieve that right at the bottom of my reply.

I might be able to do it myself but i don’t know where the billboard GUI will be located once it is Instanced

do you know what the exact place the text label will be located?

here the billboard GUI will be located once it is Instanced

Put it on the character’s head.

Can you show your basic rp name script?

Whats the code to get to the players head

remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, name) local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait() local filteredName = game:GetService("TextService"):FilterStringAsync(name, plr.UserId) local filteredNameAsString = filteredName:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync() local nameGui = char.Head:FindFirstChild("NameGui") local nameLabel = nameGui:FindFirstChild("NameLabel") nameLabel.Text = filteredNameAsString end)

Just parent the BillboardGui to the character’s head.

remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, name) local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait() local filteredName = game:GetService("TextService"):FilterStringAsync(name, plr.UserId) local filteredNameAsString = filteredName:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync() local nameGui = char.Head:FindFirstChild("NameGui") local nameLabel = nameGui:FindFirstChild("NameLabel") nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0,0,0) --Change to the color you want nameLabel.Text = filteredNameAsString end)

better way to put the billboardgui to the player head is using .Adornee so you dont have to move around the gui, use .Adornee instead of .Parent