Learn s&box Beta

A quick how-to for people already familiar with the basics of creating cosmetics.

How to make a basic door.

A comprehensive beginners resource collection helping you getting started with game development in s&box.

How to set up your IDE so Intellisense/lookups work

A guide for porting Custom models & S1 models into S&box as custom player models!

How to make your shaders run better when players have low video settings

A.K.A. "Why doesn't my panel update?"

How to make a game that Twitch viewers can interact with

Hello World in goo!

How to show a networked variable in your UI, like a score or a timer.

Import a 3D model and make your first .vmdl using ModelDoc

How to leverage storing information in stats to make a ghost replay system powered by Movie Maker.

How to create a First Person game

How to add images to your razor ui

A quick-guide on creating your first entity for our Sandbox game.

A brief insight on how to make use of s&box's stats service.

ok, let's go make

If your published game has missing images, check this out

This guide explains how to publish your map so it can be shared, downloaded, and played.

Build your first playable room in s&box using the Mapping tools.

An Open-Source "Subway Map" for all things S&Box

Step-by-step guide on how to port maps from any Source engine game

How to make your own custom UI in S&box (assuming you know nothing, but something helps)

A guide on how to setup Git Large File Storage (LFS) for S&box

This guide explains how to create a map project that targets a specific game.

Creating .cfg for lowest possible graphics settings

A super-simple guide to make a multiplayer game quickly!

A beginners guide to creating your first project in the s&box editor

Learn how to setup your own dediacted servers - no subscriptions needed

The SpriteController in s&box uses C# to convert player input relative to the camera's perspective, drive horizontal and vertical movement via CharacterController, and trigger 4-way sprite animations.

It's time for everyone to show off your clothing

Understand Shader code for S&box

A beginner friendly walk through for making simple interactive game UI.

get your player eyes and/or head to look at anything

Set up a pistol that can be added to the Inventory component's Loadout as a starting weapon. Works in first and third person.

Retarget humanoid animations between different rigs in s&box with automatic bone mapping, root motion, and optional animation variants.

Wire a coding agent into the live editor — drive the scene, query the API, write C#, all over a localhost MCP server.

Networking basics in just 4 steps.

just some useful links and guides

A quick guide to publishing your s&box game and making it publicly available on sbox.game.

import and rig custom player models

A beginner friendly walk through to defining and creating your own assets using resources.

A beginner friendly walk through for making drag and drop-able cards.

A beginner friendly walk through for making simple 2D top down animated movement with camera following.