[Feature] API for player/corpse blood levels

[EntranceJew]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Frequently, corpse and ragdoll blood mods will cause decals and blood splat traces in excess. In a game about forensics, this is often distracting as corpses can become an unlimited paintbrush for blood splats, or how players will get a disproportionate amount of blood decals on them.

Describe the solution you'd like An API for tracking the amount of blood associated to a player. Start each player off with 5000mL of blood. Realistically, people tend to die from losing anywhere from 2500mL to 3333mL of blood, so 1 HP would be close to 25mL of blood if you were to go 1:1. Corpses would contain the remaining 2500mL. Every time util.StartBleeding is run -- or any other qualifying event that creates a blood decal, deplete from this amount. Whenever a heal occurs, restore this amount behind the scenes.

Additional context This could be used for a number of things:

• the popular cannibalism / vampirism items could reward health based on remaining player blood
• addons that add realistic blood splat trajectories can utilize a resource to budget the decals
• addons that add ragdoll blood trails for being dragged can "dry up" and not continue to strain the server with decals after a point
• addons that add corpse decomposition could accelerate the process due to lack of blood
• equipment could trigger a bleed effect, and after a specific amount of blood loss the player is slowed
  • this could be a buff to items like the shuriken which otherwise deal near-fatal damage but not enough to kill
• another detective item similar to The Sniffer could exist, tracking and matching the existence of these blood decals with point-data to untangle crime scenes that otherwise paint an entire room red

[Spanospy]

Detailed blood mechanics sounds like something a separate addon should manage rather than the base TTT, if you ask me. Though I don't play this seriously so idk how much of a core issue it really is.

[EntranceJew]

I'm meaning for it to be an API that's available and shared, so that people that want to utilize it can do so, rather than have 6 competing implementations or lack thereof cross-talking or just doing whatever they feel like. I browsed through a great deal of workshop collections featuring the TTT2 base and a majority of the highly rated ones all utilize some form of additional blood/gore mod, so it just seems like something worth providing so it can be expanded upon in a way that fits within the game's framework rather than just something that is there for the sake of it.

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