A printed scene runs the length of a dark navy blade: a pale white-haired figure near the middle, cyan streaks branching around it like lightning, and the whole picture dimming to near black at the point. The guard and pommel are painted the same deep blue, and the guard keeps the ring by which a bayonet slides onto a rifle barrel.

The view model holds 3406 polygons against the stock knife’s 1040, on 38 bones, under five textures. Three of them are the game’s own hand maps at 252×123, 124×126 and 252×250; a 512×512 sheet carries the knife; and a 64×64 chrome map supplies the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 150 frames and every other sequence 28. The archive holds the view model alone, so in other players’ hands and on the ground the knife stays standard.