Marbled red, blue and yellow flow along the blade, and the hook at the tip catches the brightest part of the pattern. A gut knife is meant to open a hide along the belly, which is what that hook is for.

The view model holds 27,366 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 38 bones and five textures. Three of them dress the hand, at 512×512 for the arm, the fingers and the glove; one is the blade map; and the last is a 64×64 chrome map for the mirrored sheen GoldSrc puts on metal. The idle runs 149 frames with an inspect in it. The third-person model comes at 12,004 polygons against the stock 112, while on the ground the knife stays standard, since the archive has no model for it.