The base entity to derive from. This must be a valid Lua entity

Type of the entity. This must be one of these:

• anim
• brush
• point
• ai
• nextbot
• filter

See Scripted Entities for a more detailed explanation of what each one is.

Entity class name of the entity (File or folder name of your entity). This is set automatically after the entity file is loaded.

The folder from where the entity was loaded. This should always be "entity/ent_myentity", regardless whether your entity is stored as a file, or multiple files in a folder. This is set automatically before the entity file is loaded.

(Clientside) Set this to true if your entity has animations. You should also apply changes to the ENTITY:Think function from the example on that page.

Default: false

(Clientside) Spawnmenu category to put the entity into

Default: "Other"

Whether this entity should be displayed and is spawnable in the spawn menu

Default: false

Whether the entity supports Editing. See Editable Entities for more info.

Default: false

Whether or not only admins can spawn the entity from their spawn menu

Default: false

(Clientside) Nice name of the entity to appear in the spawn menu

Default: " "

(Clientside) The author of the entity

Default: "\u0022\u0022"

(Clientside) The contacts of the entity creator

(Clientside) The purpose of the entity creation

(Clientside) How to use your entity

(Clientside) The entity's render group, see Enums/RENDERGROUP.

Default: RENDERGROUP_OPAQUE

(Serverside) Disable the ability for players to duplicate this entity.

Default: false

(Clientside) Sets the spawnmenu content icon type for the entity, used by spawnmenu in the Sandbox-derived gamemodes. See spawnmenu.AddContentType for more information.

Default: "\u0022entity\u0022"

(Serverside) If set, the entity will not be duplicated via the built-in duplicator system.