Question about torque AI

#1 Hey. It seems to me like torque is mostly for multiplayer (at least that is what i have heard) and i have a question.

can you make enemies in a single player game have really good AI. I mean is torque just as good for making single player games as it is for multiplayer? I am mostly intrested in the AI quality. Like, can you make the enemys not just run around an shoot like in BFVietnam but instead do things like duck behind cover and react differently to different kinds of weapons?

#2 Well, you can code it yourself or wait for the AI pack. It looks like it's making awesome progress, though.

#3 There is also a FPS Single Player starter kit in the works too. Search for it on the forums/resources.

#4 Yeah iv heard of the Single Player Starter Kit and it looks pretty good. So when you say that you can code it yourself you mean that Torque has no restrictions on what you can code right?

#5 I don't think that there are any restrictions on what you can code, but I do know that you couldn't add some nifty features and then re-release the engine as your own. You would also have to make sure that you had the correct license for what you were releasing (say, a non-game architectural demo would fall under the commercial license rather than the indie game license).

#6 Oh im not planning on releasing a new version of torque or anything.
I just asked these questions because the games i will be making will be mostly single player and I was just wondering about the AI because I like programming that the most.

#7 Well I guess that I should refraise my q. What I mean is does Torque script come with any good AI commands?

#8 Depends on what you're after. I think it's shit, basically because I can't do much with it and probably because it's not considered finished either :)

You can tell a bot to go to a certain point or patrol, shoot.. simple commands like that. But nothing like "senses" or that kinda stuff.

I'd wait for the AI pack, as the others said; it looks pretty promising.