Custom produced "gibs"-How to make Created 18 years ago2006-03-08 12:56:17 UTC by Xyos212

How can you produce custom "gibs" that are generated when something breaks? Are they models? Can gibs be saved and made in Hammer, then used as a gib?

If you look in Hammer and choose a model you can view the smaller versions of that model all broken up. Each broken piece is a seperate model I believe and so when you make a custom model you must make the full version and the broken version and somehow write the information in the model files which I think are .QC and uhm..I forgot.

Gibs are models too because in Smod the enemies explode on high pressure and then these bloody gib models fly everywhere and the room is filled with blood and GORE!

Hmm, guess I will have to learn modeling then. Thanks Habboi

They're models, both in HL (where they were often saved into a single model file as submodels) and in HL2.).

Multipart breakmodels.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Creating_Custom_Breakable_Gibs