Chat sender name

dominx99

Hello,

The chat plugin works for me and it is great! 😄
But I am implementing global chat because built one works only per map.

And I have a question about sender parameter.
I have something like this (found in source):

  const data: any = {
      message: 'Hello RPGJS community!',
      date: Date.now(),
      type: 'player',
      sender: player.id
  }

  RpgWorld.getPlayers().forEach(player => {
      player.emit('chat-message', data)
  });

but the name of the sender is not displayed.
I know I could add:

message: player.name + ': Hello RPGJS community!'

but I am curious if I am doing something wrong or this sender parameter is deprecated.

@Samarium I hope that you are not overwhelmed because of my posts 😅

Edit: I found that you also do not use sender parameter:

            sendMessage({
                message: `${player.name}: ${message}`, 
                map, 
                player
            })

so sender might be deprecated.

eldrie

dominx99
Hi, I see that you are very active in the community, can I ask for your contact info (such as discord) to ask you more about rpgjs? Since I am new to this library. Thank you!

dominx99

eldrie Sure, you can reach me on discord chylo99

Samarium

I hope that you are not overwhelmed because of my posts

No, no problem 😉

I'll take a look at this sender parameter

dominx99

Samarium I think that I will implement own chat plugin which is more customizable and share it here later.
But I need to learn how to deploy it as npm package first 😄
I saw you use lerna tool for that. I have to try

Samarium

dominx99 don't worry, I'll improve the documentation to write a plugin for RPGJS. But, you can publish your own package that starts with rpgjs-.
It will then be understood by the compiler.

Samarium

dominx99

Here is a more complete documentation if you wish to create plugins:

https://docs.rpgjs.dev/advanced/create-plugin.html

dominx99

Samarium

Great! Thank you

dominx99

Samarium

Thank you, I will play with in future 😉

dominx99

@Samarium

I was thinking about implementing a global chat plugin and it works perfectly for me.
But I have concerns that it won't work in case of using kubernetes/agones

because I use this code to send message for all players:

sendToAll(data: InstantChatMessage) {
        RpgWorld.getPlayers().forEach(player => {
            player.emit('chat-message', this.instantMessage(data, {
                type: data.type || ChatMessageType.Default,
            }))
        })
    }

but I think that RpgWorlds.getPlayers will work only in the case of a single server instance, won't it?

Samarium

dominx99

but I think that RpgWorlds.getPlayers will work only in the case of a single server instance, won't it?

Yes 🙂

dominx99

Samarium

Sure, I understand
Can I implement it by myself somehow?
Maybe there is the possibility to emit through the socket to all other instances messages on chat?
Or maybe there is another way to communicate between instances?

It's a question for the future because I plan to integrate my game with your Agones plugin.

Samarium

Using Redis adapter with socket.io:

https://socket.io/fr/docs/v4/redis-adapter/

dominx99

Samarium

Thank you! I will play with it in future