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So, I would like to add my own chat filter to my game, how would I do this?

eg: Player says: "DIE" Goes through chat filter and comes out as: "###" or any other string I specify.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ How have you set up your chat so far? \$\endgroup\$ – DMGregory♦ Dec 10 '18 at 0:43
  • \$\begingroup\$ I haven't done anything so far, I don't know where ro start. \$\endgroup\$ – W0LFB0MB Dec 10 '18 at 1:32
  • \$\begingroup\$ You should start by creating a Roblox game. You'll need to learn enough Lua scripting to modify the Lua Chat System. You'll be looking to add a Filter Function that replaces words in each message's content using string.gsub. Maybe this helps you get started? I would recommend for you to ask questions about the specific thing you're stuck at right now, so answers can get straight to the point. \$\endgroup\$ – Anko Dec 12 '18 at 12:45
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Anko that looks like it could make a pretty good answer, with just a little more detail about how to set up this filter function. \$\endgroup\$ – DMGregory♦ Dec 13 '18 at 15:39
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Some games have their own custom chat guis. You could create one, then have an event that would fire in the server when a player sends a message. Creating the gui is beyond the scope of this question, but the event could have some pseudocode like this:

if(string.match(message, "DIE")) then
    addMessageToGui("###")
else
    addMessageToGui(message)
end

For more resources on remote events, you can learn how to communicate between the client and server here:

https://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Remote_Functions_%26_Events

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