ability_tongue

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Class hierarchy
CTongue ↳CBaseAbility ↳CBaseEntity

ability_tongue is a point entity available in Left 4 Dead series. It's the smoker's tongue attack. This entity is located at the tip of his tongue.

NetProps

^[Todo]

CTongue

m_currentTipTarget <ehandle>

Player the smoker started his tongue attack at

Tip:set to null to abort tongue attack in state 2

m_potentialTarget <ehandle>

Some player that smoker can start tongue attack at from his current position and angles

m_tongueHitRange <float>

distance from last caught survivor

m_tongueGrabStartingHealth <integer>

health of a smoker at the moment he caught a survivor

m_tongueHitWasAmbush <todo>

m_tongueVictimLastOnGroundTime <float>

server time of the last time caught survivor was touching the ground

m_bendPositions <array of vectors>

points where tongue is bent

Note:only first bend point can be read with the current vscript functions

m_bendPointCount <integer>

number of bent points

m_tongueState <integer>

0 = not being used
1 = tongue attack was launched with no potential target so will fail
2 = in the air attempting to catch something
3 = pulling a survivor
4 = tongue broke

m_tongueVictimPositionTime <float>

the last server time when caught survivor changed position

m_tipPosition <vector>

Position of the tip of the tongue

m_tongueHitTimestamp <float>

server time of the last caught survivor

m_tongueVictimDistance <float>

CBaseAbility

m_owner <ehandle>

owner of the ability

m_hasBeenUsed <boolean>

the ability was used at least once

m_nextActivationTimer.m_duration <integer>

determined by tongue_miss_delay or tongue_hit_delay cvars

m_nextActivationTimer.m_timestamp <integer>

server time smoker's next attempt of doing tongue attack is ready

m_activationSupressedTimer.m_duration <float>

m_activationSupressedTimer.m_timestamp <float>

ConVars

Cvar/Command	Parameters or default value	Descriptor	Effect
tongue_allow_voluntary_release	0	bool	Can a Smoker let go with his tongue by clicking or turning away?
tongue_bend_point_deflection	5	units	How far off the first obstacle the tongue bends.
tongue_bend_point_needs_LOS	0	bool	Does a bent tongue still need LOS from the bend point?
tongue_break_from_damage_amount	50	damage	How much damage to the smoker makes him let go of his victim.
tongue_bullet_radius	6	units
tongue_choke_damage_amount	10	damage	How much damage the choke does.
tongue_choke_damage_interval	1	seconds	How often the choke does damage.
tongue_cone_start_tolerance	0.1	[confirm]steradian	How wide the cone is for a tongue hit.
tongue_debug	0	bool	Print debug info for tongue
tongue_drag_damage_amount	3	damage	How much damage the tongue drag does.
tongue_dropping_to_ground_time	2	seconds	A miss or a wall hit will wait this long before pulling back.
tongue_fly_speed	1000	units per second	How fast a tongue flies through the air.
tongue_force_break	0	bool	Force an existing attached tongue to break, for debugging
tongue_gravity_force	4000		The speed that gravity tries to pull us downwards while being tongued.
tongue_health	100	int	Tongue health
tongue_hit_delay	20 (15 if versus)	seconds	How long a smoker must wait to shoot his tongue after a hit, from the time he lets go.
(only ) tongue_kill_smoker_on_detach	1		Do we kill the smoker when they take enough damage to detach the tongue?
tongue_los_forgiveness_time	1.0	seconds	A traveling tongue can lose LOS for this amount of time and still hit.
tongue_miss_delay	15 (3 if versus)	seconds	How long a smoker must wait to shoot his tongue after a miss.
tongue_no_progress_break_interval	10	seconds	How long of the victim making no progress until we break the tongue.
tongue_no_progress_choke_early_ambush_delay	0.5	seconds	Use a smaller delay if the smoker started choking us from behind. So this plus TongueNoProgressChokeTime equals the earliest start of a ground choke in the event of an ambush.
tongue_no_progress_choke_early_delay	1.5	seconds	We won't think about ground choking for this long after the hit. So this plus TongueNoProgressChokeTime equals the earliest start of a ground choke.
tongue_no_progress_choke_time	0.5	seconds	If our victim doesn't make tongue_no_progress_tolerance progress towards in this time, start to hurt him.
tongue_no_progress_damage_interval	0.5	seconds	How long of the victim making no progress until we start choking him.
tongue_no_progress_tolerance	25		If our victim doesn't make this much progress in tongue_no_progress_release_time, start to hurt him.
tongue_player_dropping_to_ground_time	1	seconds	How long after the tongue disconnects will a player need to wait.
tongue_range	750	units	How far a smoker can shoot his tongue.
tongue_release_fatigue_penalty	2500		How much fatigue the victim gets when released, to slow him down.
tongue_start_pull_delay	0.1	seconds	How long from tongue contact to tongue pulling.
tongue_unbend	1	bool	Can the smoker tongue unbend?
tongue_vertical_choke_dot	0		DotProduct between tongue and vertical required to start choking.
tongue_vertical_choke_height	40	units	Need to have victim this high off ground to choke him.
tongue_vertical_choke_time_off_ground	0.5	seconds	Need to have victim off ground for this long to choke him.
tongue_victim_acceleration	30		Acceleration while tongued.
tongue_victim_accuracy_penalty	0.133		How much someone's accuracy suffers while being dragged by a tongue.
tongue_victim_max_speed	175	units per second	The fastest the tongue can get you going.
tongue_vs_cone_start_tolerance	0.015		How wide the cone is for a tongue hit in versus.
z_witch_tongue_range	100	units	If a tongue passes this close to a witch's head, she will snap it
smoker_tongue_delay	1.5	seconds
survivor_hanging_from_tongue_eye_height	40	units
survivor_incap_tongued_decay_rate	12
survivor_max_tongue_stagger_distance	200	units
survivor_max_tongue_stagger_duration	1.5	seconds

See also

• Left 4 Dead 2/Script Functions#CNetPropManager
• ability_charge
• ability_leap
• ability_lunge
• ability_selfdestruct
• ability_spit
• ability_throw
• ability_vomit