(Dynamic) StaticShape T3D Example

Make a new *.cs file and call it staticshape.cs, and place it anywhere you like - though I'd suggest art/datablocks. Remember to exec the file in art/datablocks/datablockExec.cs.

As an example we'll use a stock Torque rock (art/shapes/rocks/rock1.dts) and we're going to make it vanish when a player touches it. This new staticshape object we'll call DynamicRock ... because staticshapes are really dynamicshapes ...

In your new staticshape.cs put this.

datablock StaticShapeData( dynamicRockData )
{	
   category = "StaticShape";//adds a folder category to the world editor scripted section if there isn't one already
   shapeFile = "art/shapes/rocks/rock1.dts";
};

function dynamicRockData::onCollision(%this,%obj,%col)
{
	if(isObject(%obj))//don't do anything if we don't exist :P
		{
			if (%col.getClassName() $= "Player")
			{ 
				%obj.delete();
				echo("DynamicRock has been touched by a player - piff paff poof - it's gone!");
			}
			else
			{
				//do nothing, cos it's not a player that has collided
			}
		}
}

Boot up T3D and open up the world editor in a level. See the new StaticShape folder under World Editor->Library->Scripted. Open up this folder and you should the DynamicRock object. Place one in the level, on the ground where the player can get at it. Quit the editors and go back to the game - and now run the player into the rock and watch it vanish on contact - magic!