Chapter 1. TorqueScript: The Only Script You Need to Know

In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

• Accessing delimited fields within a string

• Iterating on words in a string list

• Retrieving components of a variable using accessors

• Iterating on objects in a SimSet or SimGroup collection

• Getting a random object from a SimSet or SimGroup collection

• Finding an object in a SimSet or SimGroup collection using its internal name

• Executing a method on a SimSet or SimGroup collection

• Creating a new SimObject instance

• Creating a new internal name only SimObject instance

• Creating a new Datablock object

• Creating a new singleton

• Extending a SimObject instance using the class property

• Using a variable to access methods or properties of a SimObject instance

• Using call() to call a variable method on a SimObject instance with arguments

• Using call() to call a variable function with arguments

• Using script arrays as dictionaries

• Using ArrayObject and custom script sorting callbacks

• Scheduling SimObject methods

• Scheduling functions

• Activating and deactivating a package