GUI Distribution

Overview

The Anarchy Online GUI can be modified quite throughly. Some of the things which can be modified:

• The entire static screenspace
• F10 options menu
• Textures of most GUI elements
• Loading screens

A GUI distribution consist of three sets of files: XML, Loading Screens and Graphics Archive. All these may be placed under cd_image\GUI\GUIName (see Custom GUI: Naming and Placement of files for more info)

Enabling a custom GUI

Lets take a specific gui as example: Demoder's upcoming GUI; currently named "DemodersGUI".

/setoption GUIName "DemodersGUI"
/setoption GUISkin "GUI\DemodersGUI\Archives\default.uvgi"

If you are distributing a GUI, you might want to add the above to a script which the user can execute.

Technical Information

XML

Locations

• Custom: cd_image\gui\GUINAME\
• Default: cd_image\gui\Default

These define where static GUI elements are located, and how many GUI elements look.

Loading Screens

Locations

• Custom: cd_image\gui\GUINAME\gfx\
• Default: cd_image\gui\Default\gfx\

This folder contains an AI, SL and RK loading screen. AO chose which loading screen to use based on the highest expansion of the logged in account.

• ai_loading_login.png: Alien Invasion login screen
• loadingimage_fullscreen.jpg: Shadowlands login screen
• welcome_to_rubika_shadowlands.jpg: Default loading screen

Graphics Archive

Locations

• Custom: cd_image\GUI\GUIName\Archives
• Pre-SL: cd_image\textures\archives\
• SL: cd_image\textures\archives_ep1

This folder contains *.UVGA and *.UVGI files. The *.UVGA files contain a series of image files appended one after another. The *.UVGI file is an index with the following format (as of 18.4.0):

path_to_UVGA_file (this seems to be ignored)
number_of_entries
entry1_key filepos length
entry2_key filepos length
...

Custom GUI: Naming and Placement of files

Recommended Locations

• XML files: cd_image\gui\GUIName\
• Graphical Archives: cd_image\GUI\GUINAME\Arhives

Files & Folders to avoid

You should never touch these folders, nor files within:

• cd_image\gui\Default
• cd_image\textures\archives
• cd_image\textures\Archives_ep1