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Chat Filter?

Greetings! I was just wondering if there was any way to filter what's shown in the chat window to make it a little easier to read. Mostly I'm looking at OOC, IC and Dice Rolls. If there's a way to get them to all show up in different windows or something that would be awesome, but even just a switch to show only one of them would be nice.
Nope.
Sadface. ): I have some friends that are interested in starting up a campaign but they don't want to use Roll20 because they find that the chat gets too cluttered with all the different stuff coming in. And I rather like Roll20 >_>
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Forum Champion
Kevin, one idea is to use another chat program on-the-side. EXAMPLE: Tell everyone that OOC is either in Skype text chat, or Google Hangouts voice chat, or Roll20 text chat, or some kind of Instant Messenger. In-Character text can be in the other place (like in Roll20 text, or in the voice place if you speak in-character). Additionally the chat-room has at least a few ways to modify the appearance of text, that helps set things apart. /me gives an orange background, centered text, and could be used for IC or OOC. /desc only works for the GM, and gives you a black bold centered Description text. **Bold** *Italics* For de-cluttering the Dice Rolls, many people like to use the In-Line Rolls . [[5d20+1]] Roll Templates are a new feature in the official site (formerly API only, maybe more extensible in the API version), look into those as well. Some other helpful features are --- nowadays you can open the chatroom on your Tablet / iPad or Android, and thus you can minimize the chat in the game table on your computer. Your campaign details page has a full screen Chat Archive to review the past. There is a feature to clear the entire chat if needed. Hope this helps you style your chat-room and bring your friends on board.
Don't forget about the actual /ooc command. If you have your chat drop-down set to your character , you'll normally chat with the character Journal's portrait and name. Typing /ooc at that point will show your roll20 account's avatar picture and your name from the settings gear in the campaign settings.
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The Aaron
Pro
API Scripter
Depending on the use case, it wouldnt be terribly difficult to write a bookmarklet that hid all of a particular type of message. Would be purely client side, of course.
Well guess I'm just going to have to use a second chat or something to keep things a little tidier. Thanks for the help folks.