<function name="Create" parent="ents" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Creates an entity. This function will fail and return NULL if the networked-edict limit is hit (around 8176), or the provided entity class doesn't exist. Creates an entity. This function will fail and return `NULL` if the networked-edict limit is hit (around **8176**), or the provided entity class doesn't exist. <warning>Do not use before <page>GM:InitPostEntity</page> has been called, otherwise the server will crash! If you need to perform entity creation when the game starts, create a hook for <page>GM:InitPostEntity</page> and do it there.</warning> </description> <realm>Server</realm> <args> <arg name="class" type="string">The classname of the entity to create</arg>⤶ <arg name="class" type="string">The classname of the entity to create.</arg>⤶ </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="Entity">The created entity, or NULL if failed</ret>⤶ <ret name="" type="Entity">The created entity, or `NULL` if failed.</ret>⤶ </rets> </function> <example> <description>Creates a gmod_button entity near 0,0,0</description>⤶ <description>Creates a gmod_button entity near `Vector(0, 0, 0)`.</description>⤶ <code> local button = ents.Create( "gmod_button" ) button:SetModel( "models/dav0r/buttons/button.mdl" ) button:SetPos( Vector( 0, 0, 100 ) ) button:Spawn() </code> ⤶ </example></example>