I’m working on a menu for players connecting to my server but i need to hide the entire screen, for now i’m using a
[lua]
function BlackoutHUD()
surface.SetDrawColor( 0, 0, 0, 255)
surface.DrawRect(0 , 0, ScrW(), ScrH() )
end
hook.Add(“HUDPaint”, “BlackoutHUD”, BlackoutHUD)
[/lua]
however my problem is that if you hit esc to go back in the gmod main menu, the screen in the background doesn’t stay black, is there a better way?
Also any way to prevent derma menus to show OVER the main gmod interface when you hit esc?
Look at the Prop Hunt code.
It appear they use the very same code i use, excepted in my case it doesn’t work if you hit esc…
[lua]
poop = vgui.Create(“DPanel”)
poop:SetPos(0,0)
poop:SetSize(ScrW(),ScrH())
poop.Paint = function()
draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,ScrW(),ScrH(),Color(0,0,0,255))
end[/lua]
Something like that.
Btw. When they hit esc, nothing will show up. shrug so make sure not to test it unless you have a way to remove it 
Yeah i thought about this but that’s a bit … borderline annoying, is there something like a command to… i dunno , set brightness to 0 maybe?
post processing, possibly?
Sorry, didn’t read that you didn’t want derma 
Here’s something I wrote up real quick:
[lua]
local Sup = {}
Sup[ “$pp_colour_addr” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_addg” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_addb” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_brightness” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_contrast” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_colour” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_mulr” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_mulg” ] = 0
Sup[ “$pp_colour_mulb” ] = 0
OmgBoolean = false
function blackage()
DrawColorModify( Sup )
end
function ClapOnClapOff()
if !(OmgBoolean) then
hook.Add( “RenderScreenspaceEffects”, “ClapOnClapOff”, blackage )
else
hook.Remove( “RenderScreenspaceEffects”, “ClapOnClapOff”)
end
OmgBoolean = !(OmgBoolean)
end
concommand.Add(“Clap”,ClapOnClapOff)
[/lua]
Typing clap in console will make your screen black, or normal. Fun stuff. Virtual Clap On Clap Off!
This is just great 
Many thanks!