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Custom Item Glow (Vscript)
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Game Content: Weapons, Items, Scripts
Game Modes: Single Player, Co-op
Weapons: Throwable
Items: Adrenaline, Defibrillator, Medkit, Pills
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Custom Item Glow (Vscript)

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Useful "Side-Dish" Mods (Especially for Bots)
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Description
"What if all items can glow in different colors & the glows are visible even from afar?"

This random idea suddenly came out when I updated a new feature on my "Throwable Melee" that made the melee glow. & so, this mod was made out of the blue :D .

So, this mod only triggers glows on usable items including weapons. Each item type has different color. The table below will explain the colors & the item types:
Color
Items
White
- Ammo piles
- Upgrade ammo packs
- Melee
- Chainsaw
Purple
- Laser Sight
Green
- First aid kit
- Defib
- Pills
- Adrenaline
Light Blue
- Pipe bomb
- Molotov
- Bile bomb
Yellow
- T1 guns & pistols
Red
- T2 guns, m60 & GL

List of features available on "custom item glow.txt":
  1. glow_radius: This controls how far the glow will be visible. Modify this in case if you want to reduce the radius to maintain the balance of the game. Min value= 50 (melee range), max= 1000 (you can see some tiny items glowing from afar like those on the image previews).

  2. flashing_glow_mode: This one controls whether the item glow is in static glow or flashing glow. The default value is 1.

Simple mechanisms on this mod:
  • Custom item glow is triggered when a player spawns, & when a player dies.

  • Special infected's & tank's deaths can also trigger item glow.

  • Custom item glow is visible from afar, & it bypasses wall. So, you can see them even from behind a wall.


So with this mod, you can focus on finishing a campaign & take less time to explore areas for items.


NOTES:
  • A known bug: Glows on item spawns that can be returned to the spawn spots (the L4D2 auto return mechanisms when picking different weapons & then the dropped weapon returns to the item spawn spots) won't disappear.
34 Comments
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Nik52530 16 Jul @ 5:39am 
КРУТОЙ Мод
kurochama  [author] 27 May @ 6:08am 
@CATSarekittens , that feature is available now. "flashing_glow_mode" feature is added. If you set this to 0, the item glow won't go flashing.
kurochama  [author] 26 May @ 11:16pm 
@CATSarekittens , probably I can add that feature later. Probably today when I'm on my laptop.
CATSarekittens 26 May @ 6:34pm 
You should add a setting to toggle the flashing but other than that it's a cool idea.
kurochama  [author] 17 May @ 8:56pm 
@Delmóre , subscribe & then play a campaign on Singleplayer or with you as the host. The mod will be active automatically & a cfg file will be generated.
kurochama  [author] 3 May @ 8:01pm 
@DonPengu , the cfg file is in English language. If it becomes chinese texts then the notepad application causes that problem. That usually happens to some notepad applications. This also happens to other mods, like for example, similar reports ever came to Left 4 Bots 2 too. You can try to use other notepad applications if your notepad showed chinese texts when opening the cfg file. Try "Notepad++", as people usually also use that when the usual notepad application is bugged.
DonPengu 3 May @ 7:05pm 
The CFG is all in chinese, i dont know what to cahnge to see the glow far away
Oak 17 Mar @ 7:23am 
Impressed!
kurochama  [author] 17 Mar @ 7:16am 
@Oak , that glow on teammate's items should be fixed now.
kurochama  [author] 17 Mar @ 3:37am 
@Oak , that's probably a side effect. Probably I can try to do something about that.