Sending a custom outputChatBox to all players

[TheCapn]

Hello guys,

How can I send a custom message with colours to all players ? Because the second argument of outputChatBox must be a "player" and if I go directly to the "third" argument, there is an error.

Regards,

[Bonsai]

Use root.

Thats the parent of anything, therefore its for all players.

[J.S.]

You can also do a loop:

for i,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
   outputChatBox("Message here", v, 0, 0, 0) -- change 0,0,0 to your colors. 
end 

[xXMADEXx]

You can also do a loop:

for i,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
   outputChatBox("Message here", v, 0, 0, 0) -- change 0,0,0 to your colors. 
end 

That's un-efficient, use root or getRootElement().

[J.S.]

You can also do a loop:

for i,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
   outputChatBox("Message here", v, 0, 0, 0) -- change 0,0,0 to your colors. 
end 

That's un-efficient, use root or getRootElement().

It takes very little at all to process it using a loop so it can be done either way.

[Controlled]

You can also do a loop:

for i,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
   outputChatBox("Message here", v, 0, 0, 0) -- change 0,0,0 to your colors. 
end 

I have been doing it like that in my scripts before without issue

[xXMADEXx]

It still takes more than to just use getRootElement, and root is a lot faster to write.

[Bonsai]

Why would anyone use a loop to get this done..

Thats what the visibleTo argument was made for..

Loop might be an alternative way, but its stupid.

[TheCapn]

It can be useful If we want to send a special message to each kind of player, I guess