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Chat Colors

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  • This page was initially written for an older version of Helix, has not been updated, and may be out of date!
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Learn how to use and print colored messages to the built-in chat

To stylize a text, just circumvent a piece of text with a style tag: <TAG>my awesome text.

Info

This code example is sent when loading the world. You can use it but to see it, open the chat window in game by pressing the t letter and writting package reload all in the server window.

Example#

Add the following code to Server/Index.lua file inside the package.

Server/Index.lua
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with Normal text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <cyan>Cyan</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <green>Green</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <blue>Blue</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <marengo>Marengo</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <yellow>Yellow</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <orange>Orange</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <red>Red</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <grey>Grey</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <bold>Bold</> text message!")
Chat.BroadcastChatMessage("Hello with <italic>Italic</> text message!")

Warning

It is NOT possible to combine two or more styles together /(eg.: Bold + Red/).

All supported text styles/tags#

  • <cyan>
  • <green>
  • <blue>
  • <purple>
  • <marengo>
  • <yellow>
  • <orange>
  • <red>
  • <grey>
  • <bold>
  • <italic>