Scenes: Loading, Component Lookup, and GameObject Directory
A Scene is a collection of GameObjects that represents the game world. Every Component and GameObject has a property for accessing the current scene, and you ca…
Math Types: Vector3, Rotation, Angles, and Transform
s&box provides several math types for 3D game development in the namespace. Vectors Vector2 — 2D (x, y) for screen/UI Vector3 — 3D (x, y, z) for world positions…
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…
MusicPlayer: Streaming Audio with Visualization and World-Space Positioning
in s&box handles music tracks and streaming audio with programmatic control over playback, positioning, and visualization. For sound effects, use the Sound syst…
Custom Snapshot Data: INetworkSnapshot for s&box Joining Client Data Transfer
s&box Components can write and read custom data during the network snapshot process by implementing . The snapshot is sent to clients when they join a s&box mul…
Rigidbody Component: Networked Velocity, Proxy Physics Simulation, Impact Damage, and SmoothMove
Rigidbody Component: Networking, Velocity Sync, and Proxy Physics Simulation The component is the primary way to add physics simulation to a . It implements and…
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…
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…
Sandbox: Map entities — Door, Button, FuncMover, TriggerPush, TriggerTeleport
Sandbox Map Entities — Door, Button, FuncMover, TriggerPush, TriggerTeleport These components implement interactive map elements. They live in the namespace and…
SkinnedModelRenderer: Bone Merge, Animation Parameters, Sequences, Attachments, and Animation Events
SkinnedModelRenderer: Bone Merge, Animation Parameters, and Attachments extends for models with bones and animations. It integrates with the for threaded animat…
ModelRenderer: Body Groups, Material Override, Material Groups, Shadow Modes, and LOD Override
ModelRenderer: Body Groups, Material Override, Shadow Modes, and LOD renders a static (non-skinned) model in the world. It creates a in the . Basic Usage Body G…
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…
Particle Effect - s&box Documentation
Official s&box documentation for Particle Effects - visual effects system. Particle Effect creates visual effects using GPU-accelerated particles. The system su…
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…
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…
RenderOptions: Game, Overlay, Bloom, AfterUI Render Layers — and Renderer.Attributes for Shader Parameters
RenderOptions: Render Layers for SceneObjects controls which render layers a component's appears in. It's exposed as a property on all subclasses. Render Layers…
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-…
SkinnedModelRenderer: Animation Events (Footstep, Sound, Generic, AnimTag) and Sequence Playback
SkinnedModelRenderer Animation Events and Sequence Playback Animation Events exposes callbacks for animation events defined in the model's animation graph or se…
s&box LineRenderer and TrailRenderer: Points, Spline Interpolation, Face Modes, Texture Scrolling, and DepthFeather
s&box LineRenderer and TrailRenderer: Procedural Line Rendering renders a line through a list of points with configurable width, color, and spline interpolation…
s&box SpriteRenderer: Billboard Modes, Animation Control, Broadcast Events, and Rendering Options
s&box SpriteRenderer: Animated Sprites, Billboard Modes, and Broadcast Events renders a asset in the s&box world with support for animation, billboarding, and f…