[TheXeon]

An idea one of my server members had was to have an optional banlist on certain words in chat messages. A player would be able to enable and disable whether they want to see the words from other people or not. This is different than a global banlist for all clients, as it is not censoring the word for everybody, only those who opt-in. As a result, I can't just use a say and say_team. The idea is it'll work like any other game that has a profanity filter in client settings and will be completely optional to enable.

My initial idea was to use PrintToChat or CPrintToChat after a Regex filter, which would work in theory. However, it would be complicated to hook into an existing Shop's chat colors and all the other systems that might add their own colors in the future through CustomChatColors or whatnot.

And here is where I'm stuck. Is there a way to output different messages to different people, such as hooking into a text chat channel or something similar? I feel like I'm missing something right in front of me.

[TheXeon]

Found this:

function Action(UserMsg msg_id, BfRead msg, const int[] players, int playersNum, bool reliable, bool init)

Putting it here as useful, but haven't the slightest how to use it. Anyone able to shed a bit of light onto this?

[Fyren]

You posted the signature for a user message hook callback. You would write a function that returns an Action and takes those six things, then SM calls it when you hook a given user message and tell it to use your function as the callback. If you search the forum (or maybe wiki) for hooking user messages, you'll find more info.

CSGO uses protobufs instead of user messages.