#Custom Chat Help

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tepid coral
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If anyone could please help with custom chat I have about a billion questions on how to implement it.

I'd like to try to do something really simple first:

_caller customChat [1, "Hi, I am a custom chat message"];
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So as I understand it, first I need to create the channel with radioChannelCreate.

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I'll use the example from the wiki. In my initServer.sqf I have ```sqf
radioChannelCreate [[1, 1, 1, 1], "Q-dance Radio", "%UNIT_NAME", command, false];

I don't understand what most of these indexes do.
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[1, 1, 1, 1] is white text. I'm cool with that.

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What is Q-dance Radio? Is this what is displayed as the message sender at the bottom left, much like side chat?

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What is "%UNIT_NAME"? The wiki says callSign. Perhaps this is what is displayed as the message sender instead of the above?

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The next index is units (command). I'm assuming this is a list of all unit variable name that can see the custom chat messages?

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The next index is a boolean. The wiki talks of color but I thought the first index is color.

woeful aurora
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Q dance is just the channel name. Can be whatever you want.

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The %whatever is a bunch of different things you can use which will show as the "name" of the unit in the channel sending the message

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I'll find the page for you

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Units is not command. It's an array.

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Units are the units you wanted added to the channel so they can see the messages

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However, like my notes state on the wiki, when a unit dies, the channel stops working for them so you need to re add them back to the channel for it to work on respawn.