help with ai

#1 How are you creating them?

#2 im using new aiplayer(name) { datablock="playerbody"; position=localclientconnection.camera.getposition(); };

#3 This is through the console or in a script? If you're doing this by typing that line in the console then it will not save.

To save AI in a mission will usually requires some sort of marker and some script to spawn AI at the marker when the mission starts or when a player enters a trigger.

I have no idea if the documentation covers that or not, haven't looked, but there a few script-only AI Resources you could look for: AIGuard, Improved AIGuard, and Killer Korc. All of those use a marker that spawns a bot upon mission load. Look for Steve Acaster's FPS Example to see how to spawn bots from a trigger.

#4 how do i create a marker on my own that will drop guys and how do i program them

#5 Check out the aiGuard resource. There are actually several. AiGuard, aiPatrol, killerkork and advanced aiGuard. All of those are great examples of how to do what you are looking to do.

#6 i tried those and since i am a beginner i could'int make them work so if you could tell me that would be a great help

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#8 I use aiGuard resource.

At the beginning, you'll find:

//The AIGuard marker is placed in the map during edit mode. When the map is loaded the
//marker is replaced by a guard player. (Assuming that the $AI_GUARD_ENABLED variable is set
//to true.) The marker is hidden or not depending on the value set in $AI_GUARD_MARKER_HIDE.
//The AIGuard marker can use a dynamic variable - set during map creation - called 'respawn'
//Creating and setting the 'respawn' variable will override the default value set in
//$AI_GUARD_DEFAULTRESPAWN. This allows more freedom in determining which bots respawn and which do not.
datablock StaticShapeData(AIGuardMarker)
{
   // Mission editor category, this datablock will show up in the
   // specified category under the "shapes" root category.
   category = "AIMarker";
		
   // Basic Item properties
   shapeFile = "art/shapes/actors/gideon/base.dts"; 
   
};

The code above used the gideon actor as your marker that you drop in while setting up your map. It does 1 thing. It tells torque where to drop your ai player.

function AIGuard::LoadEntities()
{
	//Check to see if the AIGuards are to be loaded.
	if ($AI_GUARD_ENABLED == true)
	{
	echo("Loading Guard entities...");
	//This performs a search for all items within the radius from the starting point.
	//All of the items that match "AIGuardMarker" trigger a bot to be placed at the 
	//position of the marker found.
	%position = "0 0 0";
  %radius = 100000.0;
  InitContainerRadiusSearch(%position, %radius, $TypeMasks::StaticObjectType);
  %i=0;
  while ((%targetObject = containerSearchNext()) != 0)
  	{
  		if(%targetobject.getclassname() $= "StaticShape")
 				{
 				if (%targetobject.getDataBlock().getName() $= "AIGuardMarker")
     		{
  			%i++;
     		%player = AIGuard::spawnAtMarker("Guard" @ %i, %targetobject);
   			}
   		}
  	}
	}

This code tells torque to look for the aiGuard marker. If it already has an ai active in it, look for another one.
Once it finds an empty marker, it drops an ai there.

The best way to understand the aiguard resource is to read all the comments. It is commented extremely well.
If you add it, and it doesn't work, make sure you are compiling the cpp/h files and that there aren't any errors, plus, make sure to add the cs file and ensure there are no errors there eather.