Shadow Wraith addon - WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

ShadowWraithMod for Wrath: Aeon of Ruin (Official Release) v1.1.2 7:08 PM 3/26/2024
by Gremlin 'MrC' Forester

A mostly cloaked enemy that appears as a larger floating shadowy Wraith which becomes visible while firing and phases between solid/non-solid like the Phantasm in Blood.

Can't or rather *shouldn't* fire while cloaked, dammit Jim this is a monster not a prototype Klingon bird of prey! BUT... if it does, consider it an unplanned feature :)

A note on the code:

First version was a really great learning experience but it was messy, this version should integrate better using more inheritance, plus come is a lot lighter in terms of code reuse so yay. The journal still considers this a Wraith. Melee killing/dashing through the enemy when decloaked will award players with a special health or dark armor bonus or sometimes nothing :(

Since I don't yet know of a better way of doing this atm, the solution I've arrived at is to spawn a temp entity in the center of the monster
as it explodes.

I wanted to keep this as modular as possible so you should just be able to add monster_wraith.qc and monster_custom_nether.qc to ssqc/monsters.

Add the new .qc file to ssqc/progs.src:

monsters/monster_wraith.qc
monsters/monster_custom_nether.qc //added custom monster shadow wraith

For level designers:

Add monster_nether to spawn it ina map and use spawnflags 1 to set it to ambush/start cloaked.

The mod:

Currently this monster has a 50% chance of spawning in place of a Wraith in the normal game.

Set monster_nether_wraithspawn to 0 in the console to disable the nether wraith from spawning in the normal game.

Happy modding everyone!

To try out the test map hit "~" and type "map mrc_test".