Chatter

An elegant chat for a more civilized age.

Instructions

New Features!

• Set the default chat message type from say to say/shout/whisper!
• Set the default content row toggles to enable on start!

Features

• Change the chat font to any built-in game fonts as well as fonts on the computer.
• Configure the font colors for every chat message type.
• Toggle on/off the display of chat messages by type (see below).
• Use hot-keys (default: PageUp, PageDown) to scroll through the chat messages.
• Chat panel will auto-hide by dimming to 20% (configurable) after 10s (configurable).
• Use any color for the chat panel background!
• Move and resize the chat panel using the mouse (see below).
• Change change layouts on the fly between WithHeaderRow and SingleRow layouts (see below).
• Chat filters with a dynamic UI.

Move/Resize/Toggle

• Press Escape to show the move/resize/toggle bar.

  

Change Message Layouts

• The message layout can be switched at anytime in configuration manager and messages will be rebuilt immediately.

  

Chat Filters

• Add/edit/remove text filters for every type of chat message using a custom drawer in ConfigurationManager.

  

• Filters only affect messages in Chatter's window.
• Changing any text filters will only apply to new incoming messages.
• This is still an experimental custom drawer so please report any bugs.

Change default chat message type

• Change the default chat message type: type /say or /shout or /whisper and press Enter.
• Set the initial default message type to use at game start with config option chatPanelDefaultMessageTypeToUse.

Configuration

• Almost every component of the UI is configurable and mosty changes will be reflected immediately.

  

Installation

Manual

• Un-zip Chatter.dll to your /Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ folder.

Thunderstore (manual)

• Go to Settings > Import local mod > Select Chatter_v1.3.0.zip.
• Click "OK/Import local mod" on the pop-up for information.

Notes

• See source at: GitHub/ComfyMods.
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• Check out our community driven listing site at: valheimlist.org

Changelog

1.3.0

• Modified ShouldCreateDivider() to also check if the username is different.
• Added new feature to change the default message type from [say] to one of [say/shout/whisper] via chat command.
• Added new config option 'chatPanelContentRowTogglesToEnable' to use for enabling/disable the toggles at start.
• Added new config option 'chatPanelDefaultMessageTypeToUse' to use for initial default chat message type at start.
• Added CachedValues to StringListConfigEntry and use that for message filtering.
• Some code-refactoring and organizing.

1.2.1

• Fixed a bug where if no filters are defined it filters everything (sadface).

1.2.0

• Added support for chat filters configurable using a custom drawer in ConfigurationManager.

1.1.0

• Added support for a new chat message layout SingleRow.
• Added new configuration options for timestamp and content spacing.
• Refactored code to unify UI creation from all message types and rebuild from message history.

1.0.0

• Initial release.

Changelog

2.9.0

• Fixed for the v0.219.10 PTB patch.

2.8.0

• Fixed for the v0.218.15 Ashlands patch.

2.7.0

• Fixed for the v0.218.9 PTB patch.

2.6.0

• Fixed for the v0.217.43 PTB patch.

2.5.0

• Bumped up <LangVersion> to C# 10.
• Added new config option filterInWorldShoutText (default: false) that will also apply shout filters to in-world shout message texts.
• Fixed a bug where the ChatPanel would pop-up/display if the message was filtered.

2.4.0

• Added compatibility with Groups.

2.3.0

• Fixed for the v0.217.38 patch.

2.2.1

• Fixed a bug where default chat modes could not be toggled properly via chat command.

2.2.0

• Fixed for the v0.217.22 patch.

2.1.0

• Fixed a bug where message dividers were not hidden when the message type toggle was off.
• Made the MessageType toggles use the Valheim button sprite.
• Added the panel resizer button with new button style.

2.0.0

• Split off Changelog section into a new CHANGELOG.md file.
• Rewrote entire mod, top-down to be less hacky and use TMP entirely.
• Some features are still missing in the rewrite, to be added later.

1.5.0

• Updated almost all Text components to TMP_Text equivalents.
• Added a work-around for OS-installed fonts as TMP requires the original font file (and can't use a dynamic font).
• Modified resizer icon and message toggle styles.
• Added config options for message toggles Style.MessageToggle.Text.

1.4.1

• Applied the 'Outline' font material to in-world texts.
• Set a plain sprite for all Image components in the ChatPanel.

1.4.0

• Updated for the v0.214.2 patch.
• ChatPanel now hides when the Hud is hidden.
• Updated mod icon to a new one created by @jenniely.

1.3.0

• Modified ShouldCreateDivider() to also check if the username is different.
• Added new feature to change the default message type from [say] to one of [say/shout/whisper] via chat command.
• Added new config option 'chatPanelContentRowTogglesToEnable' to use for enabling/disable the toggles at start.
• Added new config option 'chatPanelDefaultMessageTypeToUse' to use for initial default chat message type at start.
• Added CachedValues to StringListConfigEntry and use that for message filtering.
• Some code-refactoring and organizing.

1.2.1

• Fixed a bug where if no filters are defined it filters everything (sadface).

1.2.0

• Added support for chat filters configurable using a custom drawer in ConfigurationManager.

1.1.0

• Added support for a new chat message layout SingleRow.
• Added new configuration options for timestamp and content spacing.
• Refactored code to unify UI creation from all message types and rebuild from message history.

1.0.0

• Initial release.