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Torchfire Barber

Based on game build 714014 | Last updated: 2026-03-07

Overview​

torchfire_barber is a prefab helper component that configures and manages custom particle effects for a Barber Fire entity. It defines and initializes three distinct particle emitters: smoke, fire, and ember, each with unique textures, shaders, colour/scale envelopes, and emission logic. This component is not a traditional ECS component but a factory function wrapper that creates a fully configured fire entity using MakeTorchFire from torchfire_common.lua. It is primarily used for visual fidelity in gameplay.

Usage example​

-- The torchfire_barber prefab is created via MakeTorchFire, typically as a direct prefab:
local inst = Prefab("torchfire_barber", ...)
-- (Instantiation and initialization handled internally by the engine and MakeTorchFire logic)

Dependencies & tags​

Components used: None — this file does not directly access components via inst.components.X.
Tags: None identified.

Properties​

No public properties.

Main functions​

common_postinit(inst)​

  • Description: Initializes particle effect emitters and configuration for the Barber Fire on non-dedicated servers. Sets up three VFX emitters (smoke, fire, ember) with custom render resources, particle counts, lifetimes, envelopes, blend modes, bloom, UV frame size, sort order/offset, and drag. Runs InitEnvelope() once to define colour and scale envelopes for all particle types.
  • Parameters: inst (entity instance) — the prefab instance being initialized.
  • Returns: Nothing.
  • Error states: Returns early if run on a dedicated server (TheNet:IsDedicated()), or if InitEnvelope was already called (due to InitEnvelope ~= nil check).

master_postinit(inst)​

  • Description: Sets the fx_offset property on the instance to -120, likely to adjust vertical positioning of visual effects relative to the entity.
  • Parameters: inst (entity instance) — the prefab instance.
  • Returns: Nothing.

Events & listeners​

None.