Further UI modding resources
Further resources for UI modding
The main means to get up-to-date documentation on how to modify the UI is to take a look at the addons/scripts contained in the catalog files.
Use the catalog tool to extract the content of the UI-directory. The following is a quick run-down of the directory and the files it contains:
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ui |
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| the root directory containing all ui data |
| addons |
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| root-directory for Egosoft-provided UI addons |
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| ego_xxxx |
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| each addon (prefixed with ego_) has its own directory |
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| ui.xml |
| this file describes the content/basic information of the addon (see Getting started guide) |
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| *.lua |
| Lua script file(s) (see Getting started guide) |
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| *.xpl |
| these are internally used files not relevant for UI modding support (just ignore them) |
| core |
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| root-directory of coreUI related files |
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| Lua |
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| jit |
| folder containing internal XPL/Lua files not relevant for UI modding (just ignore this) |
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| *.lua |
| Separate scripts for the different parts of the UI. Each script represents a certain part of the UI. Certain scripts (at the time of writing this these are: Billboard.lua and WriteText.lua) are used internally and are of little interest to UI modding. |
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| *.xpl |
| these are internally used files not relevant for UI modding support (just ignore them) |
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| presentations |
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| * |
| These are the resource files used by the different parts of the UI. There's no official support for modifying these at the moment. |
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| *_recovered | These directories contain textures used by the UI. |
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| addon.xsd |
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| The XSD describing the structure of the ui.xml-file for mods. |
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| coreaddon.xsd |
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| The XSD describing the structure of the ui.xml-file for addons provided by Egosoft - not relevant for UI-modding. (just ignore this) |
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| default.bgp |
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| UI-internal file. Not relevant for UI modding. (just ignore this) |
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| messageconfigurationgraph.dtd |
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| Describes the structure of the corresponding XML-file. |
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| messageconfigurationgraph.xml |
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| Description file for displaying target elements. There's no official support for modding this file at the time of writing this. |