blackmesa_crossbow_tracer

This entity is not in the FGD by default.
It should not be put directly in a map because it can only be configured through code.

blackmesa_crossbow_tracer is a point entity available in Black Mesa. This is the beam that appears after zoomed shot from crossbow in multiplayer game. It was added to make it easier for players to determine where a crossbow zoomed shot came from, because players with crossbow are very dangerous. This beam also has a wind effect that always moves the beam to the left side of player's view (env_wind does not affect this). This entity can't be configured in Hammer and doesn't provide any unique inputs and outputs.

Represented by class CEnvCrossbowTracerEffect.

Dedicated Console Variables

Cvar/Command	Parameters or default value	Descriptor	Effect
bm_crossbow_tracer_alpha	400	Float value	Transparency of the beam. You can use values from 0 to 255.
bm_crossbow_tracer_end_width	2.0	Float value	Width of the beam.
bm_crossbow_tracer_fade_duration	0.66	Float value	Fade duration of the beam, or how long it takes before the beam disappears completely.
bm_crossbow_tracer_start_width	0.75	Float value	Start width of the beam. Doesn't work.
bm_crossbow_tracer_wind_scalar	1.5	Float value	Wind push scale. Note:Don't use huge values here, because such beams can go through walls.