Modern Tactics

#1 Okay so the way I see you plan so far you have the following elements required

Terrain, Units, Weapons, GUI, Controls

1. Terrain management per level - in Torque you can handle this with the following

i) Terrain can be formed in the editor (F11) to access terrain (F7)

OR
ii) A displacement map - 256x256 greyscale put into "example\creator\editor\heightScripts" and loaded as
a bitmap operation in the editor.
** You'll need 10 of these.

2. Terrain textures - Torque allows you to blend bunches of textures together - the default is 6 but there are tutes to show you how to extend this. You need to make these 256x256 and tileable to work the best. Once you have these prepared you place them in "example\starter.fps\data\terrains" - replace starter.fps for your game name and make a new folder in the examples folder - copy starter.fps to put all the things in place.

3. Some sort of array handling system to deal with your units. You'll need to plan the attributes out, but for a start you'll at least need the following...

i) alliance
  ii) DTS reference (the object that is loaded)
  iii) movement sfx filename
  iv) weapon slot 1,2,3 etc
  v) armor
  vi) movement speed
  vii) turn speed
  viii) health / damage etc.

The weapon slots point to another array for each weapon

i) Name
   ii) Refire rate
   iii) temperature drain
   iv) cpu cost
    v) damage
    vi) durability
    vii) DTS
    viii) sound fx
    ix) skill level required

etc...

4. Interface - is it step mode? Use the GUI editor F10 to design your interface to control / move units etc, advance play, go to menu that sort of thing.

5. Control - mouse clicks? Keys? You'll need a ray check for picking objects using the mouse.

That should get you started - the list goes on...

#2 Thanks, that helps! Well its a 3d grid where units can travel only a certain amount of blocks.

#3 You can tag textures with sound by the way so you can have the units make different sounds as you walk across the terrain....

AddMaterialMapping("grass", "color: color: 0.46 0.36 0.26 0.4 0.0", "sound: 0");

...but you'll have create your own array to deal with the 3d grid. I would suggest make each grid unit large, say 5 - 10 meters, so your array isn't too large, and attempt to make the contents of the grid using the smallest memory - try using BYTES (not sure if you can specify this in Torquescript) but this gives you a value of 0(passable) to 255 (user defined - ie 1 = rock, 2 = lava etc) - you'll need to define this in script or build your own grid editor.
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