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02-16-12, 06:33 PM | #1 |
Question: Extracting RIFT UI
I'm new to RIFT but not new to writing addons for games. Is there any way to extract the developer's lua files for the official RIFT UI. I would like to make a number of modifications to the auction house and the chat system.
Obviously, it would help to be able to extract the existing files so I could hook into the existing UI properly without having to try and reverse engineer everything. I've written addons for both WAR & WOW and this was readily available by extracting the files from the data file. I see that RIFT uses a .pak file and was wondering if this was extractable. -sidsixseven PS: new to these forums, is there any easy way to change your user name. lol, i was registering a bit too fast and have a typo in my name. |
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02-16-12, 06:46 PM | #2 |
We do not have access to the default UI. We DO have access to hooks that allow us to work with or imitate the [functionality of the] default UI, though. We do not have access to everything yet, as the API is still very much so incomplete and in beta.
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02-17-12, 12:27 AM | #3 | |
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Or alternately, a way to dump all the objects? My preference would be to make modifications (or replace) the existing UI objects. EDIT: OK -- at least the dumping is no problem. It appears everything is under UI.Native .. A mousefocus would make things easier but I can work with this.. Code:
for k,v in pairs(UI.Native) do print(k) end Last edited by sidsixseven : 02-17-12 at 12:48 AM. |
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02-17-12, 01:42 AM | #4 |
In difference to other games the standard UI of Rift is not written in LUA itself. The UI.Native elements are used as placeholders to interface with the standard UI. The whole UI element approach is quite different to other games offering a LUA API.
Cheers N. |
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02-17-12, 01:50 AM | #5 |
Thx. That explains some things I'm noticing. It's looking like it might be easier to have a pop-up window. I'm starting to see why there are less addons, lol.
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02-17-12, 11:26 AM | #6 | |
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Cheers N. |
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02-16-12, 11:19 PM | #7 |
Yup, just send me a PM with what you'd like it to actually be and I will take care of it for you.
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