Shadow anomaly returns

[TheShuEd]

About the PR

The inky haze exuded by a new anomaly is a new nuisance that the passengers of Space Station 14 may encounter. A new Shadow Anomaly that scientists may encounter is constantly generating puffs of black fog, through which it is impossible to see anything. Apparently, the fog itself is harmless, but what happens inside it is...
The only way to disperse the darkness is to use security flashes. Anything from stationary flash to flashbangs will do.

During the pulses, the anomaly gradually surrounds itself with a faint haze that barely grows. But once the anomaly reaches the supercritical phase, the haze will begin to rapidly take over everything it can reach, plunging it into impenetrable darkness.

And you will not be alone in this darkness.

in territory overrun by darkness you can find cute shadow cats, flora from another dimension, and shadow rifts - unstable points in space that teleport you not far from yourself. Portals you likely won't see face-to-face, as they're scattered by flashes, so they're designed to make trying to travel blind or across the map more confusing. But, even they will be identifiable by the eerie whispering sound they make.

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By design, a shadow anomaly can't kill anyone. It does not spawn aggressive creatures that deal damage, but it greatly hinders movement on the station. If you let the darkness take over the territory, you will either have to navigate by map or by memory and pray you don't get lost.

Why / Balance

more anomalies to the god of anomalies.

Technical details

A new type of creature that can't be killed by anything other than flash exposure.
Create BaseKudzu prototype, and parented all type of kudzu to it.

Media

appearance and animations of the anomaly

2023-10-09.18-14-41.mp4

darkness cleansing process

2023-10-09.18-17-36.mp4

• I have added screenshots/videos to this PR showcasing its changes ingame, or this PR does not require an ingame showcase

Changelog
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• add: Darkness is coming. A new shadow anomaly added.

[TheShuEd]

Reopened #20840 with fixes all bugs

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit 866f507 merging into 5d5c4c4
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Effects/spookysmoke.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
spookysmoke			Added

Resources/Textures/Structures/Specific/Anomalies/Cores/shadow_core.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
core			Added
pulse			Added

Resources/Textures/Structures/Specific/Anomalies/shadow_anom.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
anom			Added
pulse			Added

Edit: diff updated after 866f507

[Hanzdegloker]

Absolutely love the design and concept of this one, very good

[OliverOtter]

This looks amazing

[Agoichi]

Prise the Ed, The Shadow BRINGER!

[Blackern5000]

I think the fog should turn off nearby lights until dispersed so you don't just have patches of bright area surrounded by fog where it hasn't taken over (as shown in the video when they walk into the engineering room with a section clear of fog.)

[metalgearsloth]

Needs predicting.

[Kadeo64]

alan wake

[PJB3005]

On Discord the concern was raised that the cloudy shadow/smoke animations might be problematic for some people. Could you make it so the "reduced motion of visible effects" accessibility checkbox (accessibility.reduced_motion CVar) selects a static sprite instead?

[TheShuEd]

This seems to require working with a visualizer, to change the state of the sprite depending on a parameter in the settings. I don't want to do that in this pr, as I don't have the knowledge and desire to do so. I will open a issue that describes this problem for the future.

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[IamVelcroboy]

Neato