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May 4, 2026

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…

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May 4, 2026

Sound.Play and SoundHandle: 3D Audio, Volume, Pitch, Occlusion, UI Sounds, and Dedicated Server Behavior

Sound.Play and SoundHandle: Audio Playback in s&box is the static entry point for audio playback. is the returned handle for controlling a playing sound. Playin…

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May 4, 2026

GameObject.Clone: Two-Pass Cloning, CloneConfig, NotCloned Flag, and Reference Rewiring

GameObject.Clone: Spawning Prefabs and Cloning GameObjects with CloneConfig is the primary way to instantiate prefabs and duplicate GameObjects in s&box. It per…

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May 4, 2026

RealTime vs Time: Wall-Clock vs Scene Time — RealTimeSince, RealTimeUntil, GlobalNow, and SmoothDelta

RealTime vs Time: Wall-Clock vs Scene Time — When to Use Each s&box has two time systems. Choosing the wrong one is a common source of bugs. Time (Scene Time) ,…

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May 4, 2026

Game Static Class: ActiveScene, ChangeScene, TypeLibrary, Cookies, and Core State Properties

Game Static Class: ActiveScene, ChangeScene, TypeLibrary, and Core State The static class is the primary entry point for global game state in s&box. Core State …

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May 4, 2026

Connection Class: Local, Host, All, Find, Permissions, Kicking, and Visibility Origins

Connection Class: Local, Host, All, Find, and Permissions represents a network connection to a player. It's the primary way to identify and interact with player…

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May 4, 2026

Networking Static Class: IsHost, IsClient, CreateLobby, Connect, SetData, and Debug Convars

Networking Static Class: IsHost, IsClient, CreateLobby, Connect, and Server Data The static class manages the multiplayer session in s&box. Session State Note: …

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May 4, 2026

Component Marker Interfaces: ExecuteInEditor, DontExecuteOnServer, IDamageable, INetworkSpawn, IPressable, INetworkVisible

Component Marker Interfaces: ExecuteInEditor, DontExecuteOnServer, IDamageable, INetworkSpawn, IPressable s&box uses marker interfaces nested inside the class t…

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May 4, 2026

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. …

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May 4, 2026

Joint Components: HingeJoint Motor Modes, BreakForce, Body Resolution, and Joint Creation Timing

Joint Components: HingeJoint, FixedJoint, and the Joint Base Class s&box provides physics joint components for constraining physics bodies. All joints extend th…

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May 4, 2026

BasePostProcess: Custom Post-Processing with GetWeighted, BlitMode, and PostProcessVolume Blending

BasePostProcess<T>: Custom Post-Processing Effects with Volume Blending is the current (non-obsolete) base class for post-processing effects in s&box. It replac…

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May 4, 2026

ScenePhysicsSystem: Physics Sub-Stepping at 120Hz, Collision Event Routing, Keyframe Colliders, and Editor Physics

ScenePhysicsSystem: How Physics Steps Work in s&box is the built-in that drives physics simulation. Understanding it explains the physics step order and collisi…

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May 4, 2026

TextRenderer: 3D World Text, TextScope, Localization via # Prefix, Scale vs FontSize, and JsonUpgrader Pattern

TextRenderer: 3D World Text with Localization Support renders text in 3D world space using for font configuration. Basic Usage TextScope The property controls a…

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May 5, 2026

Publishing Clothing - s&box Clothing Documentation

Publishing Clothing Publish clothing assets to sbox.game for players to use. Setting up your .Clothing File Create a clothing definition asset: Right-click in A…

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May 5, 2026

Components - s&box Documentation

Components A Component is added to a GameObject to provide functionality. This functionality can vary wildly. You could add a component that renders a model at …

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May 5, 2026

Hotloading - s&box Documentation

Hotloading Whenever you save a code file in your project (.cs or .razor files), we recompile and attempt to live-reload the changed assembly. This lets you quic…

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May 5, 2026

RPC Messages - s&box Documentation

RPC Messages Components can contain RPCs. An RPC is a function that when called, is called remotely too. Supported RPC arguments are the exact same as Sync prop…

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May 20, 2026

Connection Permissions: CanSpawnObjects and CanRefreshObjects

The host can change permissions for a specific in s&box multiplayer. The ideal place to set these permissions is in the network event callback when a player con…

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May 12, 2026

s&box LocalProps: Built-in prop definitions

LocalProps Static Class LocalProps is a static class that defines hardcoded models that ship with the game and are not available on the workshop. These models a…

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May 12, 2026

s&box WheelOverlay: Direction arrow overlay

WheelOverlay Static Class WheelOverlay is an internal static class that draws a spinning direction arrow overlay on wheel faces. Used by the Wheel tool to visua…