Building System

#1 How about the world editor? You can build things out of building blocks with the world editor, and all the source is there.

#2 3D Studio Max? Constructor? Lightwave? Maya? Blender? Radiant? 3D World Studio? Milkshape?

#3 You may want to check out Blockland?

#4 I mean a way to build something in game (while playing) and have it put onto the spot where you just were.

#5 I'm guessing you mean like "Forge", in Halo 3. Where you can add physics objects and interact with them.

#6 I do that all the time with console commands for testing things. Make a function called "spawnWhatever" and then type it into the console to run it.

#7 That is extremely helpful, but i'm still wondering, can you make a creator kind of like the one used in Spore.

#8 Do you mean the Spore Creature Creator? There is nothing remotely like that in Torque or any other game engine, or even game for that matter.

#9 Yep, Spore's a groundbreaker. They've done some incredible work with their algorithmically-generated skeletons and animations and textures, and you're not going to find that sort of innovation elsewhere -- yet. I expect next year will see us inundated with Spore knock-offs and design games, though. =)

You might look into the Hiding Meshes resource. You could easily make a DTS critter with meshes that could be turned on and off. It won't be anything near the level of Spore's on-the-fly critter design, but you can make things highly customisable by adding swappable limbs and bodies and so on.

Edit: url typo

#10 We're doing a lot of ingame creation stuff with Cubekind. Website. It was complex to code with lots of nuances but is working well.

Edit: Not of the level you mentioned though, just static objects and their properties