Merge AGS with Torque3d?

[Joseph]

This might be a stupido question, but I was wondering if there was a possibility to have your game in ags...but then for a mini-game, it "switches" to a 3d mini-game (and using torque 3d or something).

How would one go about doing something like this...90% is a 2d game in ags, but there is a mini-game that needs 3d, so it switches...when you're done, it goes back to the 2d game.

If this doesnt make any sense, just somehow find where I live and kill me. Thanks.

[Ghost]

It is possible to run ANOTHER AGS game from within an AGS game, but that's about it. I am not sure if a plug-in could provide that functionality (all you'd need to do is the ability to run any executable one could care to name)...

oh... oh... allowing that would result in all sorts of hilarity.

So I think not. Where did you live, you say?  

On the other hand, if you really just want to add a simple 3D mini-game, there are already some plugins available (Character3D and the like). Not too hard to use from what I know.

[Khris]

Clumsy way of doing it:
Use a loader that creates a small file when run, then runs the AGS game and continues to run in the background.
The AGS game checks if the file exists and exits with a message to run the loader if it doesn't.
When the minigame is supposed to run, the AGS game creates another small file. That gets picked up by the loader which steals the focus and runs the minigame. Upon successful completion, the loader goes backgronud again.

Like I said, clumsy. A plugin is probably the best way.

[RickJ]

It could possibly be done with a dos script.  The script would launch AGS.  AGS would activate the mini game by writing something to a file that identifies which mini-game to run, save itself, and then exit.  Script would then run, read the file, and launch the mini-game identified by the file.   Mini game exits and script loops back to beginning to launch AGS and restore previous session.

A plug-in would be better.

[Ishmael]

Am I too far from the box with thinking AGS3D?

But I suppose it's not working with 3 anyway.