<function name="Vector" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Creates a <page>Vector</page> object.</description>⤶ <description>Creates a <page>Vector</page> object.⤶ <warning>This function is very expensive when used in often running hooks or in operations requiring very frequent calls (like loops for example). It is better to store the vector in a variable or to use the [default vectors](https://wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/Global_Variables#misc) available.</warning>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="x" type="number" default="0">The x component of the vector. If this is a <page>Vector</page>, this function will return a copy of the given vector. If this is a <page>string</page>, this function will try to parse the string as a vector. If it fails, it returns a 0 vector. (See examples)</arg> <arg name="y" type="number" default="0">The y component of the vector.</arg> <arg name="z" type="number" default="0">The z component of the vector.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="Vector">The created vector object.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Creates a vector and prints the value to the console.</description> <code> print( Vector( 1, 2, 3 ) ) print( Vector( "4 5 6" ) ) local test = Vector( 7, 8, 9 ) print( Vector( test ) ) print( Vector( "4 5 test" ) ) print( Vector() ) </code> <output> ``` 1.000000 2.000000 3.000000 4.000000 5.000000 6.000000 7.000000 8.000000 9.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ``` </output> </example>