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CanadaMan777
CanadaMan777
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faction specific ui?

is it possible

July 8, 2008 2:43:52 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I haven't dabbled in it that much but I have been trying to create a new ingame ui. Now because of the radical differences of the factions in my mod (indeed even the vanilla game) I thought  might be more appropriate to give them different ui's. One being heavy militaristic/metal and the other perhaps looking holographic/plasma-like. Is it even possible to have different ui's?
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CanadaMan777
Aractain
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Reply #1 July 8, 2008 5:35:04 AM
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It looks hardcoded, for example the loading screen where your diffrent race is displayed has no informatin about which char image to pick in the .window file.
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ManSh00ter
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Reply #2 July 8, 2008 6:24:43 AM
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That's in the player .entity file, in the "hudSkinData" section.
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Reply #3 July 8, 2008 7:28:18 AM
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Indeed, how did I forget about that... lol

You would think I would remeber such things as "BottomWindowOverlayPhase" which is why I thought the game had originaly planned to have diffrent interfaces but then scrapped the idea and just made everything refrence the same file.
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Reply #4 July 8, 2008 11:03:59 AM
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I think that's a nice idea. Deffinately add to the atmosphere of the game, personally I'd like to use a version of the mod for the vanilla races.
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Reply #5 July 8, 2008 11:31:41 AM
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That's in the player .entity file, in the "hudSkinData" section.


Yep, I do believe it's possible, it just didn't get to happen for release.
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Reply #6 July 8, 2008 12:59:23 PM
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sweet! that's fantastic news for me. I'll get working right away
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