Gnome VS Zombies (Vscript)

Finally, I finished making my own turret. Well, it's uncommon turret, as usual, as it's a gnome turret (a real gnome this time) :D . This was inspired by my other mod, "Bouncing Ball Launcher". A crazy idea just came up like, "Why not making a gnome throw the bouncing balls?". After many trials & errors, finally I made it.



List of available features on "gnome vs zombies.txt" cfg file:
1. gnome_reaction: This is to control how the "Gnome Supplier" reacts when a survivor is nearby.

2. gnome_attack_damage: How much damage per bouncing ball is.

3. gnome_attack_cooldown: How long the cooldown takes until the next attack (attack speed). Min value= 0.1 (1 shot per 0.1 second), max= no limit

4. gnome_attack_force: How fast the bouncing ball is. Min value= 150, max= no limit.

5. gnome_attack_range: Gnome scan & attack range. Gnome will attack if enemy is in this radius.

6. gnome_ammo_consumption: How fast the ammo is consumed. The value can be in decimals/ floats.

7. disappearing_gnome_ball: When enabled, the bouncing ball will disappear immediately after successfully hitting a zombie.



Mechanisms:
- "Gnome Supplier" will spawn in the beginning of each chapter near the survivors. This gnome is ammo piles in gnome skin. So in other words, you're guaranteed to have ammo piles on each chapter even if the chapter originally doesn't have ammo piles in the saferoom.

- "Gnome Supplier" can give survivors a gnome, as well as laser upgrade. So, you can pick a gnome here.

- When holding a gnome in hands, hold TAB (Score) button & then press FIRE button to deploy gnome turret.

- To pick the deployed turret, hold TAB (Score) button & then shove the ground near the gnome turret.

- This gnome turret is a gnome with bigger size (2.5x of the original), & doesn't have collision (you can pass through).

- This gnome turret attack speed is controlled by "gnome_attack_cooldown".

- When "gnome_ammo_consumption" is enabled, it consumes 1 ammo per value in second. It means that if you set the value of "gnome_ammo_consumption" to 0.5, 1 ammo will be consumed every 0.5 second when gnome turret is shooting.

- The bouncing ball is with mini gnome skin. Both gnome turret & mini gnome bouncing ball use the default skin, so if you use a mod that change gnome skin, the turret & bouncing ball will also change based on that mod.

- Gnome turret attack damage is controlled by "gnome_attack_damage". How fast the bouncing ball will be launched is controlled by "gnome_attack_force".

- Gnome turret will regularly scan for zombies in radius of "gnome_attack_range". When it detects a zombie, it will launch a mini gnome bouncing ball covered in fire.

- The bouncing ball is removed regularly every 2 seconds after launch for regular cleanup.

- When the damage is not fatal, common & special infected will stumble when hit by the bouncing ball, while tank has 10% chance to stumble & witch has 20% chance.

- Witch will be ignored (least priority) by the gnome turret unless she is startled/ triggered by a survivor

- The bouncing ball can bypass riot zombie's armor & break object.



Now you can play "Plants Vs Zombies" in L4D2 :D . But wait, it's a gnome, not a plant :D .



NOTES:
- A known bug: If you deploy more than 1 gnome turret in very close range between each other, when you pick one of them, there's a high chance that other gnome turret will be removed but only one gnome is obtained. So, it's better to deploy multiple gnome turrets not to close to each other (at least make it 3 melee range between turrets)
- If you plan to deploy more turrets, it's recommended to reduce the attack speed because each bouncing ball is an entity. So far 1 turret with 1 shot per 0.2 second is still safe, as the animated previews used 0.2 second for "gnome_attack_cooldown".