Wanted: Smokescreen Grenade

[scar3crow]

Granted the current gas grenade effect is useless for obfuscation, which is what he is looking for... I suspect he would be willing to accept something ugly but functional, at least to see if it aids the gameplay of CustomTF (I think it could, particularly if there was a check on sentries, where they couldn't pick up on people in the smoke (within proximity of the grenade while its active)).

[MauveBib]

Ok, I knocked together a quick and ugly demo of the sort of thing that can be done. Here's a video.

[scar3crow]

Cheers to MauveBib for "knocking together" what I struggled with and failed horribly.

I think that could make for a decent one, just with some sprite variation, slightly different shades and patterns... which could be done in just a few moments with about any image tool.

[leileilol]

you could do a counter-strike like version and make the grenade spray in a linear counter-clockwise spin

[OneManClan]

[Electro]

[MauveBib]

[MauveBib]

Ok, I spent a bit longer on it, and the results are a lot better. I made a new properly dithered sprite and tweaked around with the code a lot to get a much more cohesive cloud effect. Entity spam should be less of a problem too, since I made the smoke MOVETYPE_NOCLIP, so the server isn't slowed by constantly testing for collisions on each sprite, but this does mean that the smoke can go through walls, which I think is an acceptable compromise.

[xaGe]

[OneManClan]

[MauveBib]

[OneManClan]

[MauveBib]

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