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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…

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May 12, 2026

s&box SnapGrid: World-space snap grid overlay

SnapGrid: World-Space Snap Grid Overlay SnapGrid is a sealed class that manages a world-space snap grid overlay projected onto a surface plane. It is used by th…

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May 12, 2026

s&box PostProcessGroup: Post-process categories

PostProcessGroup Enum Documentation PostProcessGroup is an enum that categorizes post-processing effects for organization in the spawn menu and asset browser. I…

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May 20, 2026

Platform Chat - Built-in Multiplayer Text Chat System

Built-in text chat for multiplayer games. Messages are routed through the host, validated, filtered, and displayed via the standard overlay UI - no game code re…

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May 4, 2026

SceneCamera: World-to-Screen, Screen-to-World, Render Hooks, and Camera Properties

SceneCamera: World-to-Screen, Screen-to-World, and Render Hooks is the main camera class in s&box. It wraps a native frustum and provides coordinate conversion,…

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May 20, 2026

Platform Chat: Built-in Text Chat with IChatEvent Filtering

s&box includes a built-in platform chat system for multiplayer games. Messages are routed through the host, validated, filtered via Steam's text filter, and dis…

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May 4, 2026

s&box CameraComponent: Screen/World Conversion, RenderToTexture, Priority, Viewport, and Oblique Projection

s&box CameraComponent: Screen/World Conversion, RenderToTexture, and Priority wraps a and provides the main rendering configuration for a s&box scene. Every sce…

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May 20, 2026

HudPainter: Immediate-Mode HUD Drawing in s&box

Each has a property (HudPainter) for immediate-mode drawing onto the screen. More efficient than UI panels since there's no layout, stylesheets, or interactivit…

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May 4, 2026

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…

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May 3, 2026

Editor Tools

Editor Tools Create custom tools for the s&box editor. Creating a Tool Scene Access Gizmo Drawing Preventing Selection Overlay UI Editor Project Setup Tools mus…