Better Smoker Smoke (Blue)

I always thought the Smoker's smoke should actually make it hard to see what's in front of you. That when it died, it should shake up your gameplay, and that's exactly what I made! Now the Smoker has 2 more dynamics than just snatching your ass from the depths. One: when it dies, its smoke floods out like a real smoke grenade, rolling through the room and down the street, and once you're in it, good luck, you can barely see a thing. Two: it swallows people whole. Anyone in that smoke loses their outline and their name, so your team can't find you in there, and you can't find them either. Every Smoker kill is now something you've got to play around. Push through it, wait it out, or get lost in it. Your call!

==== What It Does ==================== Every Smoker: whenever a Smoker dies, its smoke floods out from where it died. Nothing to turn on, no commands. A real spread: the smoke rolls outward over a couple of seconds and reaches up to about 700 units from where the Smoker died, filling it from the floor up past head height. Walls, floors and closed doors stop it, so it fills the room it's in instead of passing through walls. How long it lasts: about 20 seconds, then it thins out and fades away. Blind inside: step into it and a thick fog closes in around you: you can only see a few steps ahead. Hidden in the smoke: a survivor inside it loses their outline and the name over their head, so nobody can track them through it. And while you're inside, you can't see anyone's outline or name either, so finding your way back to your team is on you. Colour: blue-tinted smoke. The Smoker's own smoke trail and spores are blue to match.

Other versions: there are eight: Better Smoker Smoke in white, blue or plain (the game's own colour), each full size or Small, and Host Only, full size or Small. Use only one at a time.

==== Good To Know ==================== ⚠️ WHERE it works: only in single player or on a Local Server. Making a lobby? Pick Local Server, not a dedicated one, or the smoke won't happen at all. ⚠️ WHO needs it: everyone! The smoke cloud is the whole point, and you only see it if you have the mod installed yourself. The host needs it too, or nothing happens at all: the smoke is set off by the host's game. A friend without it: they still get blinded and lose their outline and name when they walk into the smoke, but they won't see the cloud, so they're stumbling into smoke they never saw coming. Get them to grab it! Joining someone else's game: if the host doesn't have it, there's no flood, even if you do. You'll still see the Smoker's own smoke trail and spores in this version's blue, just no flood. Versus: only Survivors get blinded and lose their outlines in it. Special Infected players don't. Names and outlines: the game only has one switch for survivors' names and outlines, and it covers every player at once. So while anyone is standing inside the smoke, or anyone is looking at a teammate who's inside it, names and outlines go dark for the whole team, even for players nowhere near the smoke. As soon as nobody is in it or looking at it, they all come back. Conflicts: it replaces the Smoker's particle file (particles/smoker_fx.pcf), so turn off any other mod that changes the Smoker's smoke or particles.

Inspired by: MrFunreal's "Particle Overhaul - Smoker". I loved the clean, thin blue smoke it gave the Smoker, so I rebuilt that blue myself for this version. A cool, crisp look that made me want blue smoke in the first place. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3018209162