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What should I look for in my hud files if I want to remove player names, ie. have player names in the scoreboard, targetui, etc, replaced with something like "-"

actually, I'm not sure scanning peoples tf/custom and tf/cfg for map configs is a good idea. I doubt many people have enough of those to justify automating it. the approach i'm thinking of is:
1. you use the script
2. you manually delete the generated configs for maps you already have a config of
3. you append ds_prefix "mapname_" to those map configs manually

Right now I'm having an issue where my registry has TF2 in drive E:/, while it's actually in drive C:/. I think I moved the game folder manually at one point.
Maybe it would be best to run the script from the base TF2 folder as a baseline instead of checking the registry?

your other suggestions are pretty good also

After switching to valve's alternative to P-REC, my demos looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/qcH2wol.png

The thing I missed the most from P-REC was being able to tell what map the demo was on, at the very least

To fix this, I wrote a short script you can run on your tf/custom folder, and it'll generate a config for every map you have there.
For example, it'll see you have arena_byre.bsp, and write an arena_byre.cfg:

ds_prefix "arena_byre_"

With this, you don't only get a date and time on the filename,

https://i.imgur.com/1nyyYO3.png

https://i.imgur.com/XxqI0ml.png

you also get the map name.

Here's the script: github.com
Linux version: github.com

To use this , open this link (linux version), press Ctrl+S on your keyboard, and save this file to your tf/custom folder, then go there and double click the script.
It'll create a new folder in tf/maps named "map_cfg". Move this folder to tf_custom.
*EDIT*
I've compiled one of these for official maps only: MEGA download (22KB)

This folder has a cfg folder with a config named after every map in your maps folder. When you enter a map in TF2, the game tries to run a config named after the map, so we generate one of those for every map you have. This will obviously conflict with any other mapname.cfg files you might already have (why?)
Another issue is you will have to either manually add new map scripts or run the script again for every new map you play on.

This is a batch script so I think windows might freak out and tell you it's a virus or something.
Any feedback is appreciated

If you use this, make sure to have ds_prefix "" somewhere on your autoexec
otherwise, if you join a new map, it'll save the demo with the prefix for the last map you played on.

*EDIT* The script now also checks for maps in tf/download/maps and places the files in a folder in tf/custom
*EDIT* linux version
*EDIT* warning about playing on new maps

(25/04/2019) Update: I stopped using this and the links here are dead. If you want the scripts they're under the spoilers below:

gen_map_cfgs.bat

gen_map_cfgs.sh

recent finding that might be worthwhile to someone who understands this better than me:
changing "ProjectileType" in tf_weapon_particle_cannon.txt from "projectile_energy_ball" to "projectile_rocket" seems to fix the nosmoke mod (ie no massive blast particle) but breaks the weapon. moreover it does not work in casual mode (even though it seemed to work on an sv_pure 2 listen server).

the weapon behaved exactly like a rocket launcher with this change, except it did not need ammo, and still had the alt attack, except this attack just fired a regular rocket after charging.

"ProjectileType"  	"projectile_rocket" // ORIGINALLY projectile_energy_ball

you place it in

/Team Fortress 2/tf/custom/nosmoke/scripts/

all the text files in the downloads go there.
ie:

http://puu.sh/yBn01/f4ad78108b.png