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Spawning AI from a client to a server world

by Justin Woods · in Torque Game Engine · 01/17/2006 (9:28 pm) · 4 replies

I want to try and do some more simulation work in TGE 1.3 or 1.4 (whichever would be easier).

I am wondering if there is a way i can leave the game engine listening for vector-data sent by another computer/program and take in that data and simulate it with an AI.

Help with existing resources would be greatly appreciated.

I think it would be fine if I just had some help sending data from a client that the server traslated into movement commands for a DTS object in Torque Space.

Any thoughts?
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Torque Owner Justin Woods
#1
01/17/2006 (10:10 pm)
Even easier. What if I just wrote a client that could AISpawn() in a server that is running.

Effectively I have a server running, then I boot up a client app, and find the server on a list. Then I hit a button that says "send them a bot" or something and it would generate a random number for position and pass that to AISpawn on the server-side.

I don't need to control them right now, just spawn them.

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#2
01/17/2006 (11:02 pm)
This has been done in several commercial uses of Torque with different techniques, all of which are certainly feasible.

Given your initial thoughts, you could actually very easily just use commandToServer, or go straight to a NetEvent implementation and do what you need.

Torque Owner Justin Woods
#3
01/22/2006 (2:28 am)
What sorts of projects has it been used on?

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#4
01/22/2006 (1:48 pm)
Valador reads in telemetry streams from various data sources to control position/orientation/movement of hundreds of Torque objects simultanously. (Simulation/Visualization)

L3 also reads in a version of the DIS protocol to control Torque objects via external (military) simulators for combined virtual space training (Military/Combined Training).