Terrain System — heightmap creation, material painting, and sculpting
Terrain System s&box terrain is a heightmap-based landscape system with material painting, sculpting tools, and built-in LOD. Terrain data is stored in a reusab…
Terrain System
Terrain System Create expansive outdoor environments with real-time terrain editing, heightmap import, and multi-layer materials. Features Creating Terrain Add …
s&box CharacterController: Physics-Free Movement Component
s&box CharacterController: Physics-Free Movement Component provides collision-constrained movement without a . It only moves when you explicitly call or . Key P…
Creating Terrain: Heightmap Setup, World Scale, and Asset Reuse
To add Terrain to your s&box scene, right-click in the Hierarchy and select 3D Object → Terrain. The inspector prompts you to create, import, or link an existin…
DecalDefinition: PBR Decal Assets with Color, Normal, and Parallax
A DecalDefinition in s&box holds what a single decal should look like. It describes color, normals, roughness, metalness, ambient occlusion, and optional parall…
Custom Assets: GameResource Definition with Inspector and Hotloading
Define custom asset types as in s&box. They provide inspector windows, are hotloaded in-game, and are stored as JSON files with custom extensions. Creating a Cu…
Styling Panels - s&box UI Documentation
Styling Panels Style your UI panels using SCSS-like stylesheets or direct code styling. Using Stylesheets Create files alongside your files: Or specify a differ…
Custom GameResource Assets: Define, Create, and Access Custom Asset Types
Define custom asset types as subclasses. They get a nice inspector window, are hotloaded in-game, and are stored as JSON files with a custom extension. Creating…
Navigation: Recast NavMesh Generation and Pathfinding in s&box
s&box implements Recast Navigation (the industry standard used in Unreal, Unity, and Godot) for navmesh generation and navigation agents. What is a NavMesh? A s…
PlayerController: Architecture, Ground Detection, Jump System, WishVelocity Sync, and Physics Step Integration
PlayerController: Architecture, Ground Detection, and Jump System is the built-in s&box character movement component. It uses a internally and implements to hoo…
s&box PhysicsBody: Body Types, Adding Shapes, Forces vs Impulses, Move vs Transform
s&box PhysicsBody: Body Types, Shapes, Forces, and Move vs Transform is the s&box physics simulation object. It wraps the native physics engine and can have mul…
NavMeshAgent: MoveTo, WishVelocity Pattern, Off-Mesh Links, Area Constraints, and Path Queries
NavMeshAgent: Navigation, WishVelocity, Links, and Path Control is the s&box component for AI navigation using the scene's navmesh. It uses DotRecast (Detour/Cr…
ClothingContainer: Apply, ApplyAsync, CreateFromConnection, RemoveUnownedItems, and Body Group Masking
ClothingContainer: Avatar Dressing System — Apply, CreateFromConnection, and RemoveUnownedItems manages a player's avatar outfit. It handles clothing compatibil…
ScreenPanel and WorldPanel: AutoScale Strategies, ZIndex, LookAtCamera, and Interaction Range
ScreenPanel and WorldPanel: UI Components in s&box Scenes ScreenPanel is the root component for 2D screen-space UI. It renders attached children to the screen. …
VirtualGrid
VirtualGrid Efficient virtualized grid component for large lists in UI. When to Use Use when displaying: Large item lists (100s-1000s) Inventories with many slo…
VirtualGrid: Virtualized Grid Panel for Large Item Collections
is a s&box UI Panel that virtualizes large item collections — only rendering visible cells. If you have thousands of items, it creates only the few on screen an…
Clutter System: GPU-Instanced Scattering for Grass, Rocks, and Debris
The s&box Clutter System scatters large amounts of small objects (grass, rocks, debris) with GPU-instanced rendering. It handles placement, streaming, and LOD a…
Video: VideoPlayer Decoding and VideoWriter Encoding with Streaming Support
s&box provides VideoPlayer for decoding video and VideoWriter for encoding video frames. VideoPlayer Decodes video files or URLs, exposing the current frame as …
Clutter System — scattering grass, rocks, and debris with GPU instancing
Clutter System — Scattering Grass, Rocks, and Debris The Clutter System scatters large amounts of small objects (grass, rocks, debris) across a scene using GPU-…
VR Development
VR Development Build virtual reality experiences with OpenXR support, tracked devices, and VR-specific components. Setup Enable VR in your project settings. s&b…