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,…
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…
s&box StackAlignMode: Stacker alignment modes
s&box StackAlignMode Enum StackAlignMode is an enum used by the Stacker tool to determine how the stack direction axis is interpreted. It controls whether stack…
Hotloading: Live Code Reload Without Editor Restart in s&box
s&box hotloading recompiles and live-reloads code when you save or files, without restarting the editor. How It Works IL Hotload (Fast): If only method bodies c…
Hotloading Pitfalls: Default Values, Types, Delegates, and Optimization
s&box hotloads code changes live when you save or files. Understanding the pitfalls helps avoid subtle bugs during development. How It Works IL Hotload (Fast): …
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…
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…
s&box StackDirection: Stacker tool directions
s&box StackDirection Enum StackDirection is an enum used by the Stacker tool to specify which axis to stack objects along. It defines the six cardinal direction…
GameObject: Transform, Tags, Children, and Components
A represents an object in the scene world. It contains a Transform, Tags, Children, and Components. Transform Represents where the GameObject is in the scene — …
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…
SkinnedModelRenderer Animation Parameters: Set, SetIk, SetLookDirection, Pre-Spawn Caching, and ClearParameters
SkinnedModelRenderer Animation Parameters: Set, SetIk, SetLookDirection, and Pre-Spawn Caching stores animation parameters in a dictionary and applies them to t…
Playing Sounds: SoundEvent, SoundHandle, and GameObject Audio in s&box
s&box provides several ways to play sounds in code: fire-and-forget at a world position, control via SoundHandle, attach to a GameObject, or use scene component…
INetworkSnapshot: Custom Binary Data in s&box Network Snapshots
s&box Components can implement to write and read custom binary data during the network snapshot process. When a client joins a server, the snapshot is sent once…
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…
Terrain System
Terrain System Create expansive outdoor environments with real-time terrain editing, heightmap import, and multi-layer materials. Features Creating Terrain Add …
Network visibility — culling networked objects per client with INetworkVisible
Network Visibility — Culling Networked Objects Per Client Network visibility controls whether a networked object sends updates (Sync Vars, transforms) to a spec…
Custom Particle Controller - s&box Documentation
Official s&box documentation for the Particle System - visual effects. Particle Effect creates GPU-accelerated visual effects. Custom Particle Controllers scrip…
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…
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…