Better Chat

Complete replacement of the Trackmania in-game chat for Openplanet.

Features

Better Chat is better in a lot of ways, with features such as:

• Built-in emotes
• Easier to read names and club tags
• Right-clicking player names for options (spectate, Trackmania.io profile, block, etc.)
• Highlighting on @ mentions
• Custom chat commands
• Autocompletion for mentions, emotes, and commands
• Blocking & filtering
• Streamer mode to censor some bad stuff

Server controller formatting

When a player with Better Chat connects to a server, the following command is automatically typed into chat:

/chatformat json

You may choose to ignore this command, or handle it. Additionally, you should handle /chatformat text to reset it back to the default formatting.

When you handle the command and the format is set to json, every (chat) message you output to the chat, should be in a Json format prefixed with CHAT_JSON:. Below are some example lines.

CHAT_JSON:{"login":"c5jutptORLinoaIUmVWscA","text":"I'm chatting w/o a nickname!"}
CHAT_JSON:{"login":"c5jutptORLinoaIUmVWscA","nickname":"Nimz|Miss","text":"I'm chatting with a nickname!"}
CHAT_JSON:{"text":"This is a system message."}

Additional parameters may be added to Better Chat's display if desired. Please open an issue if you want Better Chat to display anything from a custom parameter inside of this Json object.

Currently, the following Json object values are handled:

• login: The user's login. Only required if this is a chat message from a player. When the login is not provided, it will be displayed as a system message.
• text: The text of the message. Required.
• nickname: The player's nickname, if set. This is optional.
• clubtag: The player's clubtag, if set. This is optional.