The numbers thing is just how the language works. You can still easily generate prefixes with that limitation, just stick a random char or short string in front of the number

output is

0_testmaterial
1_testmaterial
2_testmaterial
3_testmaterial

Names and vars can't start with numbers. Switch the names to testmaterial_[%i] and things will start going much smoother.

I never used them outside of the shape editor, but importing and playing the animations worked fine for me. Creating a new project using the dev branch could help, this isn't the first time someone has reported the prebuilt binaries doing things they shouldn't. For future reference - torque does not...

Imported the cubeman dae and it seems to work just fine for me. What version of torque are you running?

hm... try resetting the scale/pos/rot of everything with shift a maybe? Also get rid of any shapekeys and use loc/rot/scale for keyframes.

http://forums.torque3d.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=523
http://forums.torque3d.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=576

One of those might help

This resource changes the shading on most objects, making them look like this http://i.imgur.com/slbN28E.png . Changes: shaders\common\lighting\advanced\vectorLightP.hlsl, line 203 float dotNL = dot(-lightDirection, normal); to float dotNL = clamp(smoothstep(0.4, 0.43, dot(-lightDirection, normal)),...

@deathbravo I believe that problem has been fixed in a recent blender release. @HanaAnderson Yes, you can replace the default character. http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque-3d/fps#/4-characters/#Change_Player_Model . It does not need animations to work. If you were asking if you need to make ...

I would recommend going through a tutorial like this if you have a lot of questions http://www.garagegames.com/products/tor ... -scripting.
It should help you figure a few things out.

Thought I should mention the alternative to editing the model in a modeling program. The shape editor lets you create nodes that are children of bones, so it is possible to add a correct mount point to an object after it is made.