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Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 6:16 pm**

Hey, I've tried to display an overlay using client command r_screenoverlay. This works in all other games, but not in BMS because sv_cheats 1 must be enabled even to enforce this on a player from the server.

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from filters.players import PlayerIter
from engines.server import engine_server
from entities.helpers import edict_from_index

def clientcommand(index, command, server_side=False):
    edict = edict_from_index(index)
    engine_server.client_command(edict, command, server_side)

for index in PlayerIter():
    clientcommand(index, "r_screenoverlay test.vmt")

Using the cvars module, I wanted to remove the cheats flag from r_screenoverlay, but cvar.find_var('r_screenoverlay') returns None.

My last resort would be enabling sv_cheats before sending an overlay, and disabling it then again, but I wouldn't really like that. Any other ideas?

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 6:18 pm**

Try turning on sv_cheats and running r_screenoverlay manually, or trying find r_screenoverlay in your client console, if cvar.find_var doesn't find it, then it may very well not exist.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 6:23 pm**

I already did, r_screenoverlay exists, and having sv_cheats 1 works.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 6:29 pm**

r_screenoverlay is a client variable/command. That's why you don't find it via cvar.find_var().

For now I would also just enable sv_cheats and then disable it.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 6:33 pm**

Okay. To remove/add the notifying from sv_cheats in chat, I need to do it this way?

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from cvars import cvar
from cvars.flags import ConVarFlags

cheats = cvar.find_var('sv_cheats')

cheats.remove_flags(ConVarFlags.NOTIFY)

cheats.add_flags(ConVarFlags.NOTIFY)

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 6:50 pm**

Yep, that's correct!

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 8:58 pm**

Odd, I went looking at a plugin I did a while back and it seems to be able to strip the cheat flag from r_screenoverlay server side. Personally I can't stand enabling cheats, even for the space of one command if I can avoid it.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2015 9:46 pm**

After all it's useless anyways, because it looks like BMS is sending overlays every tick to the client. I can display overlays now with enabling cheats, but they are directly overwritten by the game and you see them only sometimes for a fraction of a second (no other plugins enabled)...

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[BMS] r_screenoverlay not working

[BMS] r_screenoverlay not working