Where exactly is all of Marble Blast's functionality described?

Hey guys, long time no see.

I was looking around the Marble Blast Gold folder and found many TorqueScript files seeming to be describing game functionality (I know next to nothing about how Torque games work) However, I can't help but notice that some info is missing? Take powerup.cs for example. In it, only the Gravity Modifier and Time Travel are fully described (what they actually do); all the other powerups' effects are not described. Where does it say what a SuperJump does on use? I can't find it anywhere in these files. Is it encoded into the .exe somehow? Am I missing some files? Do people who create sophisticated mods (such as PQ) manage to decompile the .exe somehow, back into a Torque project, or do they do all the work in these .cs files?

Yes, I believe the missing stuff is all in the EXE and DLL files. The EXE stuff was written in C++ I believe, whereas all CS files are in TorqueScript. PQ was made largely through CS files but also through engine injections (note the additional DLLs). Derpking did most of the reverse engineering, I think.

A complete decompilation would be too difficult to bother with, and no one has even managed to decompile the weird and mysterious physics engine. Whirligig has made a CS file version (posted on the forums) of MBG's powerups, so that can be used to modify them. He used it in MBPU.

Could you link me that forum post?

Also, mh. It's strange. Big chunks of MBG are written in TorqueScript; take game.cs for example. Why would some parts be implemented in C++ and others with TorqueScript? Where's the logic in that?

davidskanal wrote: Big chunks of MBG are written in TorqueScript; take game.cs for example. Why would some parts be implemented in C++ and others with TorqueScript? Where's the logic in that?

TorqueScript isn't powerful enough for implementing the marble physics. It's very slow, among other things.

Alright, I get that. I actually wonder how much of Marble Blast's physics relies on native Torque physics functionality and how much of it was hand-written specifically for game's needs.

Whirligig's powerup code: marbleblast.com/index.php/forum/mbdk-codes/394-remade-powerups

See also: Marble Blast Powered Up, in which Whirligig made a whole mod reimplementing various parts of the game in script.