Features

The new Halloween update bring working scarecrows back. This plugin will work but an option has been added to not use the custom AI over the vanilla one.

Previously, broken scarecrows were fixed by :

• Allowing them to attack
• Allowing them to forget you if you are far enough
• Enable grenade throwing (via the original ConVar halloween.scarecrows_throw_beancans, defaults to true)
• Set the delay between grenade throwing (via the original ConVar halloween.scarecrow_throw_beancan_global_delay, defaults to 8). There is also a 10% chance to throw.
• Repair their life. Note that multipliers doesn't work anymore so they have a little bit more life by default.
• Repair they reach distance.
• Repair their sounds (Thanks to Flames for the Chainsaw).

Improve scarecrows by :

• Allowing them to roam like animals. No more dormant zombies (configurable) !
• Attacking when they are attacked. They respond to try to stay alive, and are not "passive" anymore if hit when they didn't see you.
• Flee from non human threat that are attacking them (like cactus). They will not have time to escape turrets, tho.
• Change their walk and run speeds.
• Beeing able to disable their loot.
• Beeing able to ignore safe zone players
• Beeing able to be ignored by Npc turrets and/or Bradley NPC and/or ScientistNPC.

This plugin is not compatible with Night Zombies as it also modify the AI.

The custom AI is now automatically fixed if new states are added in the official list.

Configuration

Simple configuration is done through server ConVars.

Set the amount of zombies per square kilometer with the halloween.scarecrowpopulation to allow them spawn all around the map (near structures) halloween.scarecrows_throw_beancans (true by default) allow them to throw their grenades and halloween.scarecrow_throw_beancan_global_delay to set the minimum delay between throws (default 8).

aimanager.ai_dormant (default true) enable the capacity of scarecrows to "sleep" if there is no player in the aimanager.ai_to_player_distance_wakeup_range range (default to 160). It is greatly recommended to save server resources. You can also set the aimanager.ai_to_player_distance_wakeup_range to a lower value to save a little bit more resources (80 seems to be sufficient). Also, please note that the distance doesn't use the height axis. (it's only x and z).

The config file is as follows :

{
  "Health": 250.0, //Health of the scarecrow. Keep in mind that damage modifiers doesn't work anymore.
  "AttackRangeMultiplier": 0.75, //Attack range of the scarecrow, as a multiplier of the weapon. The applied formula is 2 * weaponRange * AttackRangeMultiplier.
  "TargetLostRange": 20.0, //Distance to be forgotten by the scarecrow
  "SenseRange": 15.0, //View distance of the scarecrow to be targeted
  "WalkSpeedFraction": 0.3, //Fraction of the speed when the Scarecrow has to walk (when roaming).
  "RunSpeedFraction": 1.0, //Fraction of the speed when the Scarecrow has to run (when chasing)
  "IgnoreSafeZonePlayers": true, //Do not attack players in safe zone. Usefull if the CanNPCTurretsTargetScarecrow is set to true.
  "CanBradleyAPCTargetScarecrow": true, //Do Bradley have to ignore scarecrows ?
  "CanNPCTurretsTargetScarecrow": true, //Do NPC turrets have to ignore scarecrows ?
  "CanNPCScientistsTargetScarecrow": true, //Allow Scientist to target scarecrows ?
  "CanScarecrowTargetNPCScientists": true, //Allow scarecrows to target Scientists ?
  "CanNPCBanditGuardTargetScarecrow": true, //Allow BanditGuard to target scarecrows ?
  "CanScarecrowTargetNPCBanditGuard": true, //Allow scarecrows to target BanditGuard ?
  "DisableLoot": false, //Remove the loot of the Scarecrow corpse ?
  "UseCustomAI": true,
  "Sounds": {
    "Death": "assets/prefabs/npc/murderer/sound/death.prefab",
    "Breathing": "assets/prefabs/npc/murderer/sound/breathing.prefab"
  },
  "ConVars": {
    "OverrideConVars": false, //Set to true to replace the Halloween ConVars with given values.
    "ScarecrowPopulation": 5.0, //If OverrideConVars is true : The population of scarecrow, by square kilometer. Need to be more than 0.
    "scarecrowsThrowBeancans": true, //If OverrideConVars is true : Allow scarecrows to throw beancan grenades
    "scarecrowThrowBeancanGlobalDelay": 8.0 //If OverrideConVars is true : Delay between two grenades throws, if enabled.
  }
}

aimanager ConVars are NOT in this configuration because it will not only modify Scarecrows, but ALL AI entities. You need to set them in your server.cfg file or using your console/RCON. Please note that you can also set the Scarecrows Halloween convars throug that instead of the plugin's config file.

Credits

• Spiikesan, the author of the plugin