Moving objects script questions.

#1 1). Yes. Typically movement is done in C++, usually in the object's processTick() method. The player and vehicle classes provide examples of how to do movement calculations in the engine.

2). Look at GameCore::onMissionLoaded() or GameCore::startGame(). There are several steps involved in loading a mission so you may want to step through the code to see how it all fits together.

3). No, there's no TScript function called when the engine 'ticks'. You can add one fairly easily, though. See processList.cpp, specifically where it generates the processTick signals. You should be able to call a console function each time a processTick signal is generated (every ~32ms).

With that said, it's usually better to avoid writing code that requires constant updates/polling in TScript. Do the 'heavy lifting' in C++ and let TorqueScript handle the higher level, lightweight stuff.

#2 ScriptTickObject gives you ticks when the process list is being updated...

#3 Hopefully I am figuring this out right, been doing lots more reading to understand the engine and how the different objects interact and work.

Looks like I will want to make a game object something like pathWalker that inherits gameBase. Then add functionality to set that pathWalker to a path, and during processTick calculate the pathWalkers transform. Then to move the objects in the level that I want to move I mount the object to the pathWalker.

I am going to check out the AI stuff first to make sure there isn't something in there that will work just as well. Especially for the main reason I want to use it.

#4 If you just want an object to move you can use AI to move it using the path.

A full script to make it move along the path in a loop is available below
http://www.codesampler.com/torque.htm

#5 Yeah I checked out AI and wrote a script that uses followPath, it actually uses some of the script I had written before for looping, getting the path, and the currentNode. I also wrote something so that if the player is in the enemys line of sight it will start running at the player.