AI External Message Passing

Hello All,

I'm just looking for information here. I am trying to create an external AI control service that can integrate with Torque.

I see the Universal AI Starter Kit which looks promising for an interface, but I'm trying to decide if I can use it with my external control system or not.

Does anyone know if it would be easy to use the networking layer to pass messages to an external service on the same machine or if I need to allocate my own sockets?

I'm thinking that my service will accept messages on a port and pass them back to another port. Once torque receives the messages, the AI will have tasks added to it's task list.

However, I'm still trying to wrap my head around getting the aiplayer to do what I want it to do. I may be able to use the AI Starter Kit to take care of that part, but the whole message passing is holding me up right now.

Can anyone point me in the right direction or have experience with this?

Thanks,
Matt