Chat

This module provides functions to send chat notifications to other players.

Recipients do not need VMF to display the messages.

If you want to…

• Show a message to the local player, use VMFMod:echo.
• Do general purpose logging, see Logging.
• Send a chat message as the local player:

  -- Vermintide 1
  Managers.chat:send_chat_message(1, "Hello everyone!")
  -- Vermintide 2
  Managers.chat:send_chat_message(1, 1, "Hello everyone!")
  

Functions

VMFMod:chat_broadcast

Send a system chat message to all players in a lobby.

Parameters

• message [string] Chat message.

VMFMod:chat_whisper

Send a system chat message to a specific player.

Only the host can use this method, and they can only whisper to other players.

Parameters

• peer_id [string] Opaque peer id. Cannot be the host's id.
• message [string] Chat message.