ENT Structure

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Information about an ENT, used in ENT creation. For list of callbacks, see ENT Hooks.

While some of the fields may be serverside or clientside only, it is recommended to provide them on both so addons could use their values.

Type	Name	Description
string	Base	The base entity to derive from. This must be a valid Lua entity Default: "base_entity"
string	Type	Type of the entity. This must be one of these: anim - An "animated" entity, an shared entity with a model brush - A server-side only brush entity. (This should really by named trigger entity) point - A point entity, an entity without a model that is serverside only by default, but can be networked to clients ai - An "old style" NPC nextbot - A "new style" NPC filter - A serverside only filter entity, a valid filter to be given to engine based trigger entities that accept filters Default: "anim"
string	ClassName	Entity class name of the ENT (File or folder name of your ENT). This is set automatically after the entity file is loaded.
string	Folder	The folder from where the entity was loaded. This should always be "entity/ent_myentity", regardless whether your ENT is stored as a file, or multiple files in a folder. This is set automatically before the entity file is loaded.
boolean	AutomaticFrameAdvance	(Clientside) Set this to true if your entity has animations. Default: false
string	Category	(Clientside) Category the ENT is in
boolean	Spawnable	Whether this ENT should be displayed in the Q menu Default: false
boolean	Editable	Whether the entity supports Editing. See Editable Entities for more info. Default: false
boolean	AdminOnly	Whether or not only admins can spawn the ENT from their Q menu Default: false
string	PrintName	(Clientside) Nice name of the ENT Default: ""
string	Author	(Clientside) The author of the ENT Default: ""
string	Contact	(Clientside) The contacts of the ENT creator Default: ""
string	Purpose	(Clientside) The purpose of the ENT creation Default: ""
string	Instructions	(Clientside) How to use your entity Default: ""
number	RenderGroup	(Clientside) The entity's render group, see RENDERGROUP_ Enums. Among other things, this decides which draw hook is called: ENTITY:Draw and/or ENTITY:DrawTranslucent. The default value is the engine’s default. It is recommended to specify a value to avoid the entity to be invisible.
boolean	DisableDuplicator	(Serverside) Disable the ability for players to duplicate this SENT. Default: false