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Advanced Shadow Guy Nextbot [Highly Intelligent AI]
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Addon Type: NPC
Addon Tags: Fun, Roleplay, Realism
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Advanced Shadow Guy Nextbot [Highly Intelligent AI]

Description
ADVANCED SHADOW GUY - NEXTBOT

Experience a brand new Shadow Guy, completely rewritten from the ground up! This addon transforms the once background figure into an intelligent and dynamic threat. It also supports multiplayer so you and your friends can ghost hunt!

✨ Features
  • Creep/Stalking Mode: Shadow Guy roams around searching and detects player actions
  • Interacts with Light Switches: Manipulate lighting to affect visibility and ambiance
  • Interacts with Physics Objects: Flings objects around
  • Interacts with Doors: Opens doors near itself
  • Flickering Lights: Lights may flicker smoothly like a horror movie
  • Door Interactivity: Opens nearby doors dynamically and smoothly when roaming
  • Dynamic Pursuit: Variable-Speed chases with escalation
    AND MORE!


⚙️ Utility Menu

  • 🟢 Passive: Shadow Guy will never attack the player, longest respawn timer
  • 🟡 Default: Standard options that offer the best balance
  • 🔴 Aggressive: Shadow Guy will charge and chase almost every time

🎭 Dynamic Behavior System
The Advanced Shadow Guy showcases varied behaviors:
  • 🌀 Teleport: A classic behavior
  • 🏃 Chase: Will chase the player and fling props in the way
  • ⚡ Attack: Launches at the player at high speed
  • 👀 Creep: Subtle stalking with searching, wandering and escalation
Unpredictable Respawn Dynamics: Each spawn is driven by chance, making it impossible to predict his next move. This randomness keeps gameplay engaging and fresh!

📌 Important Information
The Advanced Shadow Guy is optimized for medium-sized maps featuring light switches and physics props. While it will operate on any map with a navmesh, for the best experience, play on maps specifically designed with these elements.

🗺️ Recommended Maps
🔧 Recommended Addons


💬 What Players Are Saying
"After I went to City of Silence I got to the God is dead room and THEN the shadow guy appeared... absolute cinema." - WorsethanWorst
"This gave me like 120931 heart attacks." - Evil Daisuke
"This next bot is actually fun, I love it!" - steven.smith5
"cool" - potato1234_x (The original Shadow Guy creator!)


💭 Final Notes
This was a passion project led by me, the lead developer. Alongside this project was "Conrad", lead quality assurance. Our goal was to create one of the best Nextbots on the Workshop, and we believe we have reached that goal. The Advanced Shadow Guy is a unique Garry's Mod experience. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything remotely similar at this time. Our code includes many complex systems that most Nextbots fail to implement. We believe you'll be pleasantly surprised with what we have to offer. Thank you for playing our addon, and thank you for all the likes and comments. We truly appreciate your feedback and support.
Original Shadow Guy: View Here


⭐ Please Rate & Favorite ⭐
If you enjoy this addon, please consider leaving a rating and adding it to your favorites!
Tags:
Horror, Entity, AI, Stalker, ARG, Creepy, Paranormal, Interactive, Horror Chase
Popular Discussions View All (2)
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16 Aug @ 3:20am
Advanced Shadow Guy Feature Ideas
Daenthio
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1 Aug @ 5:23pm
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Conrad Catastrophe
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bravo 29 Aug @ 11:07pm 
10/10, paired this up with the terminator and changed the terminator model to a skinwalker and played the 4th recommended map
AlexMas16 27 Aug @ 3:40am 
Can you name all the music you used?
shuroeb 26 Aug @ 3:00am 
it's chasing only host or all players?
Conrad Catastrophe  [author] 22 Aug @ 8:41am 
@kuza IFL - CLIENTSIDE Improved Flashlight
kuza 22 Aug @ 5:29am 
wich flashlight mod you was using ?
Reverie Flows  [author] 12 Aug @ 9:58pm 
@SleepyNotDead If i were to ever make him 3D, then it would be a custom model with an animation system. For example, something such as the Babadook. I can buy a model to use within Garry's Mod, and then rig it up or what not. However, I have no experience with any of that. So, adding that workload to the already complex (for me) systems creates burn out.

I could see the potential with a really creepy 3D model. I just want it to be a special model and not just something from gmod itself. I want my addon to be a whole package experience. A mod that offers something no other mod does. As of right now I have something amazing (imo).

I mean, I could look into it. I'm not really sure how feasible it is though. Maybe I can find someone who knows a lot about rigging/animations. Then include them as a contributor to the project. I could provide them the paid model. Then they could handle that part of development.
SleepyNotDead 11 Aug @ 12:33pm 
That's a shame..
I do hope you decide to do it at some point, i dont really agree with your reasons.
(aside from the difficulty of adding it, that is valid and i understand not doing it because of that alone)

A 2D sprite of sliding towards you is already kind of goofy, im not sure how a 3D model sliding towards you would look any worse, especially if its given a floaty animation.
(didn't mean actually make it noclip, just using those animations for a floating ghost kinda look)

Still an impressive nextbot though.
Fantastic work still.
Reverie Flows  [author] 11 Aug @ 5:21am 
@SleepyNotDead There are no plans to make him 3D. I'm not saying it’ll never happen, but we have other things to focus on right now. Keeping him 2D simplifies the already complex code. Making him 3D would just add extra work I don't feel like dealing with at the moment.

I get why some people want him to be 3D, but it would honestly just look goofy. It would be a model running or walking at you. Taking a model and making it “black” is a cool idea in theory, but it comes with its own problems.

If I just set it to "noclip," I imagine it would cause issues with the navmesh. And at that point, it's just a model in a pose sliding toward you, which would look goofy and kill the creepy vibe. The reason it’s unsettling is because it’s 2D. If it were 3D, I don’t think it would work the same. This Nextbot was built from the ground up to function as a PNG. I can’t just slide in a 3D model at this point in development.
SleepyNotDead 10 Aug @ 10:46pm 
Spawning like, a large horde of them is very fun lmfao
becomes chaotic
SleepyNotDead 10 Aug @ 7:31pm 
An idea if you ever do decide on giving it a 3D model.
A standard citizen playermodel, darkened and made to look like a shadow man, and give it the animations of an idle unarmed player using noclip, so it still creepily floats towards you without having to worry about walking anims.