Creating custom actors

Now that we know how the actor system works, we can move on to creating our first actor in C# and C++.

Note

By default, it is not possible to create actors purely using the Lua scripts. Typically, the actor is created in C++ and handles custom callbacks to a Lua script contained in the Game/Scripts/Entities/Actors folder.

Creating actors in C#

Using CryMono, we can create custom actors entirely in C#. To do so, we can derive from the Actor class as shown:

public class MyActor : Actor
{
}

The previous code is the bare minimum for creating an actor in CryMono. You can then navigate to your game rules implementation and spawn the actor once the client connects via the Actor.Create static method.

The CryMono class hierarchy

If you find yourself confused by the various CryMono/C# classes, see the following inheritance graph:

Note

Note that while querying entities using Entity.Get (or actors via Actor.Get), you'll get an object of type EntityBase or ActorBase. This is because the...