EDITOR PLUGIN: Export to XAGE v0.4

[clarvalon]

What better way to spend a Saturday night than writing my very first AGS Editor plugin?  This plugin is based upon the RoomXML exporter code by Denzil Quixode.

NOTE:  The second stage of the conversion requires XAGE Editor v0.5, which has not yet been released to the public (so it's pretty useless to most people at the moment).

Usage:  This plugin prepares AGS game files in a way that is suitable for conversion to the Xna Adventure Game Engine (XAGE), in order to play them on the Xbox360 or via a web browser.  It is designed to be as straightforward as possible, so the instructions should hopefully be self-explanatory.  After copying AGS.Plugin.ExportToXAGE.dll to the AGS Editor executable directory, a new option should appear on the toolbar, 'Export -> Prepare game for XAGE':





If selected, the plugin will then launch XAGE Editor and automatically begin the second stage of the conversion process.  



Download:  ExportToXage v0.4.zip

Changelog:
  v0.4 - FIXED - Rooms with no description & View subfolder warning.
  v0.3 - FIXED - Uses relative rather than absolute paths.
  v0.2 - ADDED - Extracts Hotspots, Regions, WalkAreas, WalkBehinds as PNG.
  v0.1 - Initial version.  Automates extraction of Room XML, sprites and room background images.

[[ Arj0n ]]

Amazing & awesome job your doing with this AGS -> XAGE project clarvalon!
Hope you get supported with enough useful sources from ags gamemakers
so you can work it all out to a 100% finished and stable version
I'll keep an eye on this project for sure.
Good luck!

[Denzil Quixode]

Cool! I'm glad to see you're getting use out of that code already

One thing though, do I need a box.net account or something to download it? The URL doesn't seem to give me any obvious option to download the file, I just see a generic landing page

[clarvalon]

Whoops, I cocked up the URL.  Fixed now.

[Dualnames]

I'm waiting for you to post a linky on XAGE Version 0.5! Why the tease?!!!

[clarvalon]

But waiting is fun!  Sometimes I like to just sit and stare at my enormous ToDo list and happily twiddle my thumbs.

[clarvalon]

Cracked it - All masks are now being extracted as PNG images.  AGS Hotspots are now successfully being extracted and converted into XAGE objects.  WalkBehinds should be fairly straightforward.  Regions and WalkableAreas are going to prove much trickier.  Plugin updated to v0.2.

[Dualnames]

Cracked it - All masks are now being extracted as PNG images.  AGS Hotspots are now successfully being extracted and converted into XAGE objects.  WalkBehinds should be fairly straightforward.  Regions and WalkableAreas are going to prove much trickier.  Plugin updated to v0.2.

Great, still can't see it, but greatness so far..

[clarvalon]

Plugin updated to v0.3 (paths now stored as relative rather than absolute to make it easier to move or share conversion projects).

[clarvalon]

Plugin updated to v0.4 (rooms without a description were not being correctly converted, also added a warning to ensure all views are in the base folder rather than organised into subfolders, as the game.agf deserializer cannot cope with recursive types in the xml).

[Dualnames]

Cool! Two updates so fast! Still need the ... thing missing ()..

[clarvalon]

Chances are the XAGE v0.5 alpha will be released once I'm done with Awakener, but I may sit on it a few weeks longer to work on the GUI stuff, to help more games convert to a playable state.  Not too long now 

[Dualnames]

Chances are the XAGE v0.5 alpha will be released once I'm done with Awakener, but I may sit on it a few weeks longer to work on the GUI stuff, to help more games convert to a playable state.  Not too long now 

No worries, I don't think I'll be able to convert HHGTG anyway..