Class EntityFactory

Namespace: ValveResourceFormat.Renderer.Entities
Assembly: Renderer.dll

Creates entities from classnames. Classnames absent from the table are not implemented.

public static class EntityFactory

Inheritance

object ← EntityFactory

Remarks

Filled in statically rather than by scanning types, to stay trim-safe and AOT-compatible.

Methods

Create(EntitySystem, EntitySpawnInfo)

Creates the entity for a classname, which the entity system adds to the world to spawn with the rest of its spawn group. An unimplemented classname gives a GenericModelEntity when it has a model, otherwise a GenericEntity.

public static BaseEntity? Create(EntitySystem system, EntitySpawnInfo spawnInfo)

Parameters

system EntitySystem

spawnInfo EntitySpawnInfo

Returns

BaseEntity?

The entity, or null when the keyvalues name no classname or a worldspawn.

Register<T>(string, EntityCreator)

Registers a classname and builds its entity class's table of EntityInputAttribute handlers. Safe to call while maps are loading.

public static void Register<T>(string classname, EntityCreator creator) where T : BaseEntity

Parameters

classname string

The classname to link, matched case-insensitively.

creator EntityCreator

Constructs the entity.

Type Parameters

T

The entity class the classname spawns.