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**Scripted Entities** (or **SENT**s for short) are custom entities coded entirely in Lua. The difference from **Engine Entities** being that you cannot use on engine entities. # Scripted Entity Types There are 6 different types of Scripted Entities: | | | nextbot | A NextBot NPC. A newer "style" NPCs with better navigation.<br/><br/>All <page>NextBot</page> functions and hooks are also usable on these entities. | | anim | A normal entity with visual and/or physical presence in the game world, such as props or whatever else you can imagine. | | brush | A serverside only trigger entity. Mostly used very closely with the Hammer Level Editor. | | point | A usually serverside only entity that doesn't have a visual or physical representation in the game world, such as logic entities. | | filter | A different kind of "point" entity used in conjunction with trigger ("brush" type) entities. | # Scripting The following is usable with **Scripted Entities**: * * <page>ENT</page>⤶ * <page>Structures/ENT</page>⤶ * <page>Entity</page> functions The following is usable with **Scripted Weapons** (Also known as **SWEP**s): * * <page>SWEP</page>⤶ * <page>Structures/SWEP</page>⤶ * <page>Entity</page> functions * <page>Weapon</page> functions