Weapons

In GMod the weapon system was based on CBaseEntity in the engine. In s&box we don't even use the native classes. In s&box a weapon is just an entity with a bunch of interfaces implemented.

The weapon system is actually stupidly simple. It's based on the ActiveEntity system.

This function is called during the player's tick. If you have an ActiveChild and it's an IPlayerControllable, it'll also tick.

So on your gun entity you can do stuff like this.

And just for fun, here's the box shooter code