gibshooter

Class hierarchy
CGibShooter ↳CBaseEntity
`effects.cpp`

gibshooter is a point entity available in all Source games. It shoots out giblets. Style of body part depends on language type.^[Clarify]

Note:This entity is fairly outdated. New games use Env_shooter instead.

Note:In

Black Mesa differs from other games in that this entity shoots out giblets of a male scientist. The best example is the scene in bm_c1a2b.

AltNames: In Black Mesa, this entity is also tied to env_gibshooter.

Flags

Name (targetname) <string>: The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.; See also: Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

GibShooter:

Number of Gibs (m_iGibs) <integer>: Total number of gibs to shoot each time the entity should shoot.

Delay between shots (delay) <float>: Delay (in seconds) between shooting each gib. If 0, all gibs shoot at once.

Gib Angles (Pitch Yaw Roll) (gibangles) <vector3>: The orientation of the spawned gibs.

Max angular velocity (gibanglevelocity) <float>: How fast (degrees/sec) the gibs should spin. They will spin on the x and y axes between 10% and 100% of this speed.

Course Variance (m_flVariance) <float>: How much variance in the direction gibs are fired.

Gib Life (m_flGibLife) <float>: Time in seconds for gibs to live +/- 5%.

Lighting Origin (lightingorigin) <targetname>: Select an entity (not info_lighting!) to specify a location to sample lighting from for all gibs spawned by this shooter, instead of their own origins.

Physics (simulation) <choices>

How the gibs will be physically simulated.

GibShooter:

Important:This entity will be removed after this input.