<function name="NetworkVar" parent="Entity" type="classfunc"> <description> Creates a network variable on the entity and adds Set/Get functions for it. This function should only be called in <page>ENTITY:SetupDataTables</page>. ⤶ See <page>Entity:NetworkVarNotify</page> for a function to hook NetworkVar changes.⤶ <warning>Make sure to not call the SetDT* and your custom set methods on the client realm unless you know exactly what you are doing.</warning> </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="type" type="string">Supported choices: * "String" * "Bool" * "Float" * "Int" (32-bit signed integer) * "Vector" * "Angle" * "Entity"</arg> <arg name="slot" type="number">Each network var has to have a unique slot. The slot is per type - so you can have an int in slot 0, a bool in slot 0 and a float in slot 0 etc. but you can't have two ints in slot 0 instead you would do a int in slot 0 and another int in slot 1. <br/> The max slots right now are 64 - so you should pick a number between 0 and 63. An exception to this is strings which has a max slots of 4.</arg> <arg name="name" type="string">The name will affect how you access it. If you call it "Foo" you would add two new functions on your entity - SetFoo and GetFoo. So be careful that what you call it won't collide with any existing functions (don't call it "Pos" for example).</arg> <arg name="extended" type="table" default="nil">A table of extended information. **KeyName** If the table contains a "KeyName" key the value can be set using <page>Entity:SetKeyValue</page>. This is useful if you're making an entity that you want to be loaded in a map. The sky entity uses this. **Edit** The edit key lets you mark this variable as editable. See <page>Editable Entities</page> for more information.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Setting up data tables</description> <code> function ENT:SetupDataTables() self:NetworkVar( "Float", 0, "Amount" ) self:NetworkVar( "Vector", 0, "StartPos" ) self:NetworkVar( "Vector", 1, "EndPos" ) end -- Code... -- Setting values on the entity self:SetStartPos( Vector( 1, 0, 0 ) ) self:SetAmount( 100 ) -- Code... -- Getting values local startpos = self:GetStartPos() </code> </example>