CHANGES:

- sendBotMessage now supports a "raw" parameter to avoid any bot formatting.

Author: karel26

README.md

@@ -683,7 +683,11 @@ After that, you can for instance send chat messages to the bot using
 ```lua
   dcsbot.sendBotMessage('Hello World', '12345678') -- 12345678 is the ID of the channel, the message should appear, default is the configured chat channel
 ```
-inside a trigger or anywhere else where scripting is allowed.
+inside a trigger or anywhere else where scripting is allowed.<br>
+If you want to send raw messages containing discord formatting options (like ANSI), then you can do it like so:
+```lua
+  dcsbot.sendBotMessage('Hello World', '12345678', true) -- last parameter is "raw", which disables any bot-related formatting
+```
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > Channel always has to be a string, encapsulated with '', **not** a number because of Integer limitations in LUA.

Scripts/net/DCSServerBot/DCSServerBot.lua

@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ if dcsbot.UDPSendSocket == nil then
 	dcsbot.UDPSendSocket:setsockname("*", 0)
 end
 
-dcsbot.sendBotMessage = dcsbot.sendBotMessage or function (msg, channel)
+dcsbot.sendBotMessage = dcsbot.sendBotMessage or function (msg, channel, raw)
 	local messageTable = {}
 	messageTable.command = 'sendMessage'
 	messageTable.message = msg
+	messageTable.raw = raw or false
 	dcsbot.sendBotTable(messageTable, channel)
 end
 

plugins/mission/listener.py

@@ -192,7 +192,10 @@ async def sendMessage(self, server: Server, data: dict) -> None:
             channel_id = server.channels.get(Channel.EVENTS, -1)
         channel = self.bot.get_channel(channel_id)
         if channel:
-            message = "```" + data['message'] + "```"
+            if not data.get('raw', False):
+                message = "```" + data['message'] + "```"
+            else:
+                message = data['message']
             if 'mention' in data:
                 message = ''.join([
                     self.bot.get_role(role).mention for role in self.bot.roles[data['mention']]