Exploring the New Chat System

[Leon Baker]

Howdy TruckersMP community!

We are excited to share some news with you all, our Development team have been working hard, and we are delighted to present the new and improved chat system - now available on TruckersMP!

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What's New?

Though the new chat system retains the familiar TruckersMP style, it has undergone a complete overhaul, bringing numerous improvements to this popular tool.

Enhancing Accessibility and Experience

One of the most significant improvements is the enhanced accessibility now offered by the chat system. The text font is now easier to read, and the font size is larger right from the start. Additionally, your screen size should never limit your experience. With functional scaling, the chat system automatically resizes based on your resolution. Whether you're playing on a larger or smaller screen, everything adapts seamlessly, giving you the best possible experience. Additionally, you can manually scale the size of HUD elements through the interface settings.

Mouse Input Customization

You can now interact with the chat using your mouse by scrolling through the chat and clicking on player names and mentions. To provide the best possible experience, we have enabled mouse input by default. However, we are well aware that many players use mouse input for steering, and we've got you covered! It is possible to disable this feature through the interface settings.

Streamlined Keyboard Shortcuts

We have made a small change to the keyboard shortcuts. The F9 key no longer hides or shows the chat window. Instead, we've streamlined it to align with the rest of the GUI (Graphical User Interface), and the F11 key now serves this purpose.

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That's not everything! We have prepared a few more changes:

• Text Magic at Its Finest: Say goodbye to those irritating missing characters - our new font engine supports various character sets, including Chinese, Georgian, and even emojis, ensuring everyone's messages look perfect.
• Type Confidently: The input box has had a makeover - it can now handle longer messages (up to 200 characters) without cutting them off and supports commands (like Ctrl + Shift + arrows).
• Never Miss a Beat: Keep up with the conversation - the message history can now store up to 60 messages, and you can easily scroll through them.
• Time Stamps for Your Convenience: We've added time stamps to player messages, so you'll know when something was said. If you like a cleaner look, you can easily hide them in the settings.
• Chat with Ease: Using commands and mentioning other players is easier than ever, as the chat system offers dynamic autocomplete suggestions, making chatting a breeze.

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Your Feedback Matters!

As with any update, your feedback is invaluable to us. We want to ensure that the new chat system meets your expectations and works seamlessly. Contact the Support Team if you find a bug and Community Management for suggestions and feedback. This will help us to refine and improve this update further.

So, buckle up truckers! The new chat system is ready for action. We can't wait for you to try it out and have a blast chatting away with other drivers.

Happy trucking and keep those wheels rollin'!
-TruckersMP Team

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[Titanic4]

Now this is huge. I wonder if there will be a way to customize the way the emojis look in-game...

[Acer_TMP]

That looks awesome already, going to check it defintely out later. 

[Tеddy]

great work I like it very much thank you! 

[Guest]

the update is not beautiful, the background is very bad, it is not transparent 

[RedNub]

Awesome stuff!  Thank you for that update

 

[Guest]

Great work TruckersMP. 

[Interstate Nomad]

24 minutes ago, Leon Baker said:

Mouse Input Customization

You can now interact with the chat using your mouse by scrolling through the chat and clicking on player names and mentions. To provide the best possible experience, we have enabled mouse input by default. However, we are well aware that many players use mouse input for steering, and we've got you covered! It is possible to disable this feature through the interface settings.

 

So how do users who use mouse input for steering and mouse buttons for turn signals, lights and wipers actually scroll through the chat?

[L-DR@GO]

Perfect

[Oblivion69]

Nice work ! Can't wait to say "rec" with this new system

[Zodiac]

A nice update

[FoxxDash]

Finally!  My eyes won't get tired reading text the size of an ant on 1440p. I like this change very much. 

[Diamabil]

The update is good. It’s good work.

 

The bug I noticed is that it crashes my "Overlay Trucky" in loop

[mя sεяκαи]

Will there be great updated emoji support?

[Titanic4]

@Diamabil, you may need to report the issue to Trucky's developers. 

 

Also, I've noticed that inputting emojis can be rather difficult, since there will be second cursor, which always snaps to the center of the screen. To actually get emoji in chat, it has to be copied and pasted.

[Guest]

Nice Update!!

[The_Summer]

This is looks so great is nice update 

[DipçikxD]

Woooow  nicee  update

 

[/:\ Shipmate /:\]

*opens the chat*  cant see the mirror clearly anymore

 

*passing by the cd road* people spam in the chat and again you cant see the mirrors clearly

 

*reworked commands* type /fix and hit enter, you've only selected the command and you must hit enter again to send it 

 

 

[Lena']

Thank you for your beautiful work

['darius.]

This is a really good update

[Potzblitz]

Nice to have the long expected font scaling.

 

But i still miss an option to place the chat window anywhere on the screen. As i use triple screen, the chat box is always on the lower left of my left screen which is a bit out of my visibility field.

[xLucky15Britx]

1 hour ago, blabberbeak said:

 

So how do users who use mouse input for steering and mouse buttons for turn signals, lights and wipers actually scroll through the chat?

the chat can still be hidden as you drive though but for some of the actions could move them to a keyboard like wipers if you hit p once they auto go off after that using rain sensors 

blinkers  can go on keyboard too lights keyboard and just keep them turned on 

19 minutes ago, Skyking [SGB] said:

Nice to have the long expected font scaling.

 

But i still miss an option to place the chat window anywhere on the screen. As i use triple screen, the chat box is always on the lower left of my left screen which is a bit out of my visibility field.

this is the next thing they should add the ability to move the chat window where we want too thatis the only downside for me @Leon Baker  other than that I love the update 

1 hour ago, FoxxDash said:

Finally!  My eyes won't get tired reading text the size of an ant on 1440p. I like this change very much. 

i agree font was hard to read xd 

[Foobrother]

Thanks to the team for improving the chat. Always nice to see improvements

 

 

1 hour ago, Leon Baker said:

our new font engine supports various character sets, including Chinese, Georgian, and even emojis, ensuring everyone's messages look perfect.

While this seems like an improvement, I'm really scared of the consequences of such improvement on players. It's already painful to watch all these chat messages in all these non-English languages. Now we will add foreign characters and emojis (which will be very lightly used for sure) to the picture 

As mentioned on another thread about this new Chat, one great feature would be to allow auto-translation or to mute some specific players who don't write in English (or for other personal reasons).

 

1 hour ago, Leon Baker said:

Using commands and mentioning other players is easier than ever, as the chat system offers dynamic autocomplete suggestions, making chatting a breeze.

Probably my favourite feature from this release. Especially having the user ID displayed! 

 

1 hour ago, Oblivion69 said:

Nice work ! Can't wait to say "rec" with this new system

Sooooo true, funny and yet sooooo sad!!

[DerKatzenTyp]

Awsome Update  Thanks for your work