Network Ownership System
Network Ownership System Control who simulates and updates networked GameObjects with the ownership system. Ownership Basics Every networked object has an Owner…
Player Controller - s&box Scene Documentation
Player Controller The Player Controller component provides character movement for games. It handles physics-based movement, ground detection, jumping, and camer…
Engine Frame Loop Order: FrameStart, Scene Tick, and FrameEnd Sequence
Engine Frame Loop Order The s&box engine frame loop runs in a specific order each frame. Understanding this is important for knowing when your code runs relativ…
NetworkHelper — quick multiplayer setup with auto-server and player spawning
NetworkHelper — Quick Multiplayer Setup is a built-in s&box component that handles the boilerplate of starting a server and spawning players. It's the fastest w…
Your First Project - s&box Documentation
Your First Project Creating Game Objects In s&box, everything in your scene is a GameObject. GameObjects can have Components attached to them that provide funct…
ActionGraph — visual scripting with action nodes, delegates, and C# integration
ActionGraph — Visual Scripting ActionGraph is s&box's visual scripting system. Nodes represent actions or expressions, and links carry values or signals between…
GameObjectSystem: Auto-Instantiation, Host-Controlled [Sync], RPCs, Stage Hooks, and Configuration Priority
GameObjectSystem: Auto-Instantiation, [Sync] Properties, and RPCs is a scene-level singleton that is automatically instantiated once per scene. Every non-abstra…
SyncFlags.Interpolate: How Networked Property Interpolation Works — Supported Types, InterpolationBuffer, and Delay
SyncFlags.Interpolate: How Networked Property Interpolation Works When is applied to a property, proxy clients receive a smoothed value between network ticks ra…
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) ,…
SceneAnimationSystem: Threaded Animation, Bone Merge Order, Procedural Bones, and Ragdoll Physics Step
SceneAnimationSystem: Threaded Animation Updates and Bone Merge Order drives all animation updates. It runs at (after , before ). Threading Model Animation upda…