[Dragokas]

Description:

My present for community dedicated to halloween celebration.
Now, works in L4D2 as well.

Visual improvements of the death:

Features:

- timeouts react on CPR plugin convars, so it is highly recommended.

Recommended plugins:

- "Emergency Treatment With First Aid Kit And CPR" by panxiaohai
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=1178894

Settings (ConVars):

- l4d_death_soul_allow - Enable plugin (1 - On / 0 - Off)

Credits:

- SilverShot - for ragdoll dissolver and basic L4D1 glow support, also L4D2 tests
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=306789

- Mehis - for "func_tracktrain" code
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpo...32&postcount=3

- 8guawong - for pointing me to above smooth moving code.

TODO:

Spoiler

- Realistic soul origin and angle + reliable fading: they should match the ragdoll position
at the end of landing (looks like it is impossible due to client side ragdoll;
alternatively: convert client side ragdoll to server side,
however, according to Valve wiki it could produce a lot of performance load,
so it is not worth the effort)

- find a way to fade L4D2 ragdolls.

- Increase soul sound volume even more (somehow?)

- add other specific animation variants (it require changing the model angle as well)

ChangeLog

Spoiler

1.6 (22-Oct-2019)
- Added L4D2 support
- Fixed case when fader is not worked for negative values
- Kill soul when player disconnects
- Kill all souls on round end (for safe)
- Other safe checks

1.5 (22-Aug-2019)
- Client is replaced by UserId in sound timer (for safe).

1.4 (05-Apr-2019)
- Add disconnect

1.3 (30-Mar-2019)
- Laser trace is now begins from the ground regardless if user died in the air

1.2 (12-Feb-2019)
- Added safe plugin unloading

1.1 (09-Feb-2019)
- Fixed "Client is not connected" in DissolveDelayed

1.0 (02-Feb-2019)
- Initial release.

Donate

Donates are very appreciated and welcomed for further inspiration, make me happy, and make next updates came out more often:
- Patreon (Paypal)
- BitCoin
- Ю.Money

[KRUTIK]

funny, cool, thanks.

[AK978]

thanks.
testing...

[Voevoda]

L4d2 crash server

[Dragokas]

Where is crash dump? Accelerator / logs, anything ?
Is it happen on specific map? How often is it happen? In what moment?

[finishlast]

This is quite funny.

Some "problems":
SourcePawn Compiler 1.10.0.6435
On l4d1 it takes really long for the soul to travel up like 1 minute, then the soul disappears but the blue laserbeam remains forever.
Sometime I see two souls going up. Slay bill and then two bill souls, 1 seems to be the dead ragdoll not moving and the other is moving, both with white glow though.




On a lighter note:

Someone should take this and modifiy it for next year.

Randomly spawn a special infected model in front of a random survivor player.

Play zoey's death scream and desolve it.

Scare jumps in l4d fun fun fun

Having a tank spawn in front of you looking in your eyes and then vanish. Wow I would need some extra underwear.

[Dragokas]

Originally Posted by finishlast This is quite funny. Some "problems": SourcePawn Compiler 1.10.0.6435 On l4d1 it takes really long for the soul to travel up like 1 minute, then the soul disappears but the blue laserbeam remains forever. Sometime I see two souls going up. Slay bill and then two bill souls, 1 seems to be the dead ragdoll not moving and the other is moving, both with white glow though.

I tested this plugin ~ 10 months, and I had never face such problems in L4D1, always used it in pair with CPR fork plugin,
as well as no errors (only 1 crash for all this time, with previous version, through).
sm 1.9, sometimes tested in sm 1.10 (compiled with 1.9).

Maybe conflict with another plugin?

If you not using CPR, default fly time is stored in

#define SOUL_TIMEOUT		60.0

All settings can be adjusted in the very beginning of plugin code.
Although, I highly not recommend change some of timeouts there.

Blue beam is dissapper for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFXLs-jqFZM

not sure why you may have a problem.

Originally Posted by finishlast On a lighter note: Someone should take this and modifiy it for next year. Randomly spawn a special infected model in front of a random survivor player. Play zoey's death scream and desolve it. Scare jumps in l4d fun fun fun Having a tank spawn in front of you looking in your eyes and then vanish. Wow I would need some extra underwear.

Thanks. Nice idea for the next Halloween.

[finishlast]

Yeah, probably another plugin messing it up.

I commented out the beam timer and set

#define SOUL_TIMEOUT 7

I don't mind the two souls, I can just say 2 souls because everyone has a dark and a light side hahaha

[Dragokas]

Two souls mean surely something wrong on your side. So, death event called twice and this is bad.
Also, beacon ray is reproduced each 3 seconds IF ONLY client is dead. Dunno, how is it possible it doesn't disappear for you.
And what do you mean under "ragdoll is not moving"?

[finishlast]

Originally Posted by Dragokas Two souls mean surely something wrong on your side.

You are sooo right, I really fucked this one up, I found out why it is happening.

Originally Posted by Dragokas So, death event called twice and this is bad.

Indeed. The event wasn't called twice, the plugin was called twice which resulted in a mess.
I edited my own plugin while I was looking into your plugin and eventually copied YOUR entire source into my plugin.

Then compiled both and put em on the server.

So timers and everything got multiplied by 2.

I am really sorry.