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== Engine interfaces ==

===eiface.h===

{| class="standard-table"
! Class
! Description
! Version string
|-
| IVEngineServer
| Interface the engine exposes to the game DLL
| INTERFACEVERSION_VENGINESERVER
|-
| IServerGameDLL
| These are the interfaces that the game .dll exposes to the engine
| INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMEDLL
|-
| IServerGameEnts
| Interface to get at server entities
| INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMEENTS
|-
| IServerGameClients
| Player / Client related functions
| INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMECLIENTS
|-
| IUploadGameStats
| {{confirm|Steamworks stats}}
| INTERFACEVERSION_UPLOADGAMESTATS
|-
| IPluginHelpersCheck
| Allows the game dll to control which plugin functions can be run
| INTERFACEVERSION_PLUGINHELPERSCHECK
|-
| IPluginGameHelpers
| {{todo|Contains only SendMenu()}}
| INTERFACEVERSION_PLUGINGAMEHELPERS
|-
| IServerDLLSharedAppSystems
| Interface exposed from the clientfor specifying shared .dll IAppSystems
| SERVER_DLL_SHARED_APPSYSTEMS
|-
| IServerGameTags
| Querying the game dll for Server cvar tags
| INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMETAGS
|}

=== vstlib/random.h ===

{| class="standard-table"
! Class
! Description
! Version string
|-
| IUniformRandomStream
| A generator of uniformly distributed random numbers
| VENGINE_SERVER_RANDOM_INTERFACE_VERSION (eiface.h)
|}

=== engine/iserverplugin.h ===

{| class="standard-table"
! Class
! Description
! Version string
|-
| IServerPluginCallbacks
| Callbacks the engine exposes to the 3rd party plugins (ala MetaMod)
| INTERFACEVERSION_ISERVERPLUGINCALLBACKS
|-
| IServerPluginHelpers
| Functions that only 3rd party plugins need
| INTERFACEVERSION_ISERVERPLUGINHELPERS
|}

=== game/server/iplayerinfo.h ===

{| class="standard-table"
! Class
! Description
! Version string
|-
| IPlayerInfo
| Accessors to player data
| None; use IPlayerInfoManager
|-
| IPlayerInfoManager
| Gets IPlayerInfo objects
| INTERFACEVERSION_PLAYERINFOMANAGER
|-
| IBotController
| Runs bot [[usercmd]]s, teleports them, etc.
| INTERFACEVERSION_PLAYERBOTMANAGER
|}

=== igameevents.h ===

{| class="standard-table"
! Class
! Description
! Version string
|-
| IGameEventManager2
| Keeps track and fires of all global game events
| INTERFACEVERSION_GAMEEVENTSMANAGER2
|-
| IGameEventListener2
| Receives event callbacks
| None; inherit from this
|-
| IGameEvent
| An event
| None; receive with IGameEventListener2
|}