Stylish Death Timescale FX
No longer requires cheats!! ReAgdoll strongly recommended.
—- After dying, Hold W for Replay Mode (speed up the slow motion), let go to slow
!! Hold R, Space, or LMB to Respawn !! Also has customization panel!
Born from a wish to sit within the final moment of my unbecoming; frozen in a frame of fracture
wanted to get it out before my trip away from home; enjoy your cinematics!
Technicals:
basically we smoothly slow the game down until it looks frozen, and at any point you can speed it back up to see what happens to your corpse.
Further Technicals: host_timescale cannot freeze, because that would stop all think ticks from running, effectively soft-locking the simulation. Garry’s Mod doesn’t allow anything below host_timescale 0.01, so to compensate, phys_timescale (for props and serversided ragdolls) freezes at this point so that most things appear frozen in time. And it’s all buttery smooth babeyy
So yes, please get a player ragdoll handler if you want the physics to completely freeze your corpse like in the gifs, something like Reagdoll or Serversided Death Ragdolls
Convars:
cinematic_death_enabled – Enable or disable the cinematic death system
cinematic_death_start – Initial Slowmo Speed, player just died
cinematic_death_end – Full Slowmo Speed, slowest timescale
cinematic_death_duration – Delay Until Full Slowmo, just died > [DURATION] > Full (Slowest) Slowmo
cinematic_death_respawn_delay – Minimum Delay before Respawn Input is accepted
cinematic_death_curve – Time Interpolation Style
{{accepted args: "linear", "ease_in", "ease_out", "ease_in_out", "dramatic"}}
cinematic_death_trigger – Host timescale must drop below this before physics slowmo begins
cinematic_death_phys_end – [Phys_Timescale Full Slowmo], since we can’t completely freeze host_timescale, we’ll freeze physics entities during Full Slowmo; I felt clever on this one.
cinematic_death_phys_duration – Phys_Timescale Slowmo Delay, calculated strangely; when host_timescale dips below cinematic_death_trigger, we begin gradually slowing phys_timescale until they both reach minimum.
cinematic_replay_speed – Timescale Speed when holding Replay (W key)
cinematic_replay_block_window – Block Replay Input until after this window
cinematic_replay_phys – Return Phys_Timescale to <your_value> when holding Replay; 1 is Unfrozen
cinematic_replay_transition – Delay between pressing Replay before reaching Replay Speed
cinematic_npc_enabled 1 – Enable cinematic slowmo for NPC/Nextbot deaths
cinematic_npc_curve ease_in_out – Interpolation style for NPC cinematic slowmo
cinematic_npc_start – Initial slowmo speed when NPC dies
cinematic_npc_end – Final slowmo speed
cinematic_npc_duration – Duration of NPC slowmo transition
cinematic_npc_fade_delay – Duration of restoration to normal timescale
cinematic_npc_chance – Percentage chance (0-100) for NPC death slowmo to trigger
cinematic_npc_min_damage – Minimum damage required to trigger NPC death slowmo (0 = no minimum)
cinematic_npc_damage_threshold_type – Damage threshold type; ‘final’ (killing blow) or ‘total’ (accumulated damage)
cinematic_npc_classes – "nextbot_here,snpc_angry_mother" – Comma-separated list of entity classes to include if they aren’t already being detected
Pairs well with:
Wounded Walk (used in previews: desat, blur, camera wobble)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3440848248
Reagdoll (further engaged ragdolls like in previews)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3034006243
Enhanced Blood Splatter System + Realistic Blood Physics (with RTB Redux Blood to get all that blood in the previews)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2837128795
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3474817043
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3041080438
Gore Chunks (Head-shot/gib system in previews)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2878681604
Vomiting Blood (in 2nd video)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3203958033
TFP Death (used in 2nd video: die in first person with the ability to look around)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3478832640
Cracked Mirror Death Effect (used in 2nd video)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3458196297
Enhanced Death Animations (not in previews but, stylish death anims with reagdoll support!)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3279383994
Crappy Video Camera (works with the funny aah camera dropping when you die!)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3504739480
Terminator Nextbot (featured in previews. squash ‘n watch em calculate)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2944078031
also, Volt VPhysics, which is used in the previews! but beware, a few other ragdoll mods don’t like it:
https://github.com/misyltoad/VPhysics-Jolt
this should work with most other death mods 🙂
ALTERNATIVES
[players] Smooth Slowmo Death: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3343980003
[players] GTA 4 Death Screen: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3457527865
[npcs] Slow Motion Kill Feedback: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864097117
[npcs] Enhanced Visual Feedback: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3210322653
