AdminChat 3.0

AdminChat 

Description:
AdminChat is a lightweight, clean, and professional plugin that gives your Rust staff a dedicated, private communication channel—both via in-game chat and a fully skinnable GUI panel. Whether you’re running a PvP server or an RP community, AdminChat keeps your admin conversations discreet and organized.

Key Features

• Admin-only chat via /ac <message>
• Sleek GUI Panel opened with /acpanel, closed with the button or /acclose

 Full Layout & Color Control

• Header / Content / Footer sections
• Configure every background & text color in the JSON
• Reposition the panel anywhere on-screen via PanelAnchorMin / PanelAnchorMax
• Move or center your header text via HeaderTextAnchorMin / HeaderTextAnchorMax

 True 20-line Scroll History in the center content area, updating in real-time

 Customizable Labels

• Rename “Admin Chat” header (HeaderText)
• Rename “Online Admins:” footer label (AdminsLabelText)
• Change /ac and /acpanel via config:

Automatic Panel Cleanup

• On /oxide.reload AdminChat, server restart, or player disconnect, all open panels close cleanly
• Message history and panel state are cleared per-player on disconnect — no memory leaks

 Locale-Safe Rendering — UI renders correctly on servers running any system language (German, French, etc.)

 Crash-Resistant Config — corrupted or invalid config files are caught gracefully with a warning and regenerated automatically

Permission-based — access via adminchat.use

Ultra-Lightweight & Optimized— History only stored for admins, automatic trimming, minimal performance impact

Configuration Example

{
  "CommandName": "ac",
  "PanelCommand": "acpanel",
  "CloseCommand": "acclose",
  "ChatPrefix": "[AdminChat]",
  "PrefixColor": "#00B3FF",
  "NameColor": "#FFCC00",
  "PanelAnchorMin": "0.30 0.30",
  "PanelAnchorMax": "0.70 0.70",
  "PanelBackgroundColor": "0.05 0.05 0.05 0.9",
  "MaxMessages": 20,
  "HeaderColor": "0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8",
  "ContentColor": "0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6",
  "FooterColor": "0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8",
  "HeaderText": "Admin Chat",
  "HeaderTextColor": "1.0 0.65 0.0 1.0",
  "HeaderTextAnchorMin": "0 0",
  "HeaderTextAnchorMax": "1 1",
  "HistoryTextColor": "1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0",
  "ReminderColor": "1.0 0.8 0.0 1.0",
  "AdminListColor": "0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0",
  "ReminderText": "Use /ac <message> to chat",
  "AdminsLabelText": "Online Admins:"
}

 Commands : 

• /ac <message>    – Send a private admin chat message
• /acpanel         – Open the AdminChat GUI panel
• /acclose         – Close the panel (or click )

 Installation : 

1. Upload AdminChat.cs (v2.2.30) to your oxide/plugins/ folder.
2. Delete or reset oxide/config/AdminChat.json so new fields appear.
3. Reload in console/RCON:
4. oxide.reload AdminChat
5. Customize colors, positions, labels in oxide/config/AdminChat.json and reload again to apply.

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