In your examples '.type' & '.color' are known as 'dynamic fields' in the world of Torque. Internally each object has a SimFieldDictionary (basically a hashmap) that stores a key:value pair for each 'dynamic field' the object has. When you add a new dynamic field (e.g. %obj.myNewVar = 15) the object ...

shaders are compiled & cached on-use resulting in hitching with each unique material In fairness, we do suffer from the same issue at present, it's just that the shadergen feature(aka prefab snippets of shadercode) combo system cuts down on duplicates a bit. (I'd say a lot, but depending on just ho...

Glad you got it working!

setSkin/setSkinName are indeed networked but the actual retexturing work is done clientside by the reSkin() method. The only reason calling setSkin/setSkinName applies the change to all clients is because those functions set a netmask (SkinMask) which sends the mSkinNameHandle string across the wire...

Lots of fun stuff on the horizon. Will be good to finally see all of the pieces come together. And my little blurb on Godot since I spent some time evaluating it this year: 3.0 was supposed to be the big "this challenges Unity" release but I found that not to be the case. It does a lot of things rea...

The code is correct Az (at least on Windows, poor Linux...) but if the registry key is missing for some reason it'll fail which sounds like what's happening in Hodo's case. There are some other registry keys we can check as well (the thread I linked lists those). Another potential alternative would ...

It's an issue with their OS rather than your app/Torque. Platform::openWebBrower() will fail on Windows machines if it can't find the registry key that points to the user's default web browser. More info and some possible solutions: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/aa3a1535-aa8...

Center Centers the object in it's container. Only the position is changed, not the extent (width/height) of the GUI control. Right/Left/Top/Bottom Object will change position (not extent) when its container object is resized. This allows you to keep a control positioned at a specific position/offse...

I might be the only one that finds this useful but I'm constantly forgetting to close Torque before recompiling which of course results in VS complaining that it can't access the exe. This bit can be added as a Pre-Build Event and will automatically terminate the exe before building. taskkill /f /fi...

I believe they're making this claim based off of a post Timmy made over a year ago in which he talked about writing a new gfx layer for 4.2 that would rely on The Forge: https://forums.torque3d.org/viewtopic.php?t=1386#p10430 I doubt we'll see much progress on that any time soon and as of now T3D do...