[Request]UI elements advice

[love28]

So, I'm no genius coder but I playing around in the games client side files for my own curiosity and because I want to learn! Anyway, i thought a nice place to start would be the UI elements, since any serious "MOD" to the game would require a UI in game, i figured it only made sense to start there!

So far, here's what i've found~

element\userdata\Layout houses random numbered files with each account you've logged onto's UI layout co-ords. I references things like Win_Chat_x and gives co-ords:

Win_BBS_x = 42.187500
Win_BBS_y = 45.117188
Win_Chat_x = 0.000000
Win_Chat_y = 83.593750
Win_ChatSmall_x = 0.000000
Win_ChatSmall_y = 76.562500

Things like that, easy enough to see what they are doing. Now question #1 I was hoping someone could shed some light on, is where it's getting the Win_Chat info from? If we know where it's from, we can add to it.

Now, i pulled the .pck files out and scoured them looking for any sign of them and got nothing, I wasn't really expecting to since I'm sure those Win_Chat things are pulling info from another master file of some sort.. I don't really know like I said i'm learning.

So anyway, This "Interfaces.pck" file look like it would be related. I milled over it trying to get a clear picture of where it may be housing the images for the UI's, and found nothing. I did however notice that some of the files reference to .tga's and .bmp amongst their barely readable contents.

Example WinMain1.dtf

DIALOG "Win_Main1" 0 0 227 42 0 1 0 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_±ê×¼±ß¿ò.dds" "" "" 0 0 -1 -1 "" 0 0 96 96 96 255 1
STILLIMAGEBUTTON "Btn_Inventory" "winventory" "SFX\Interface\ClickB.wav" 7 4 35 35 0 0 0 0 2 18 255 255 255 255 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" 3 1
STILLIMAGEBUTTON "Btn_Character" "wcharacter" "SFX\Interface\ClickB.wav" 43 4 35 35 0 0 0 0 4 18 255 255 255 255 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" 5 1
STILLIMAGEBUTTON "Btn_Skill" "wskill" "SFX\Interface\ClickB.wav" 79 4 35 35 0 0 0 0 6 18 255 255 255 255 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" 7 1
STILLIMAGEBUTTON "Btn_Pet" "wpet" "SFX\Interface\ClickB.wav" 115 4 35 35 0 0 0 0 8 18 255 255 255 255 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" 9 1
STILLIMAGEBUTTON "Btn_Quest" "wquest" "SFX\Interface\ClickB.wav" 151 4 35 35 0 0 0 0 10 18 255 255 255 255 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" 11 1
STILLIMAGEBUTTON "Btn_Action" "waction" "SFX\Interface\ClickB.wav" 187 4 35 35 0 0 0 0 12 18 255 255 255 255 "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" "Window\¶Ô»°¿ò_͸Ã÷É«.bmp" 13 1

Some funky bmp's and wavs in there. I assume somewhere in there there's the info i need to move on, but I've hit a roadblock. If anyone could offer some suggestions or advice as to where I might go next to find these UI elements i would be grateful. To put it into a clearer perspective my first objective is to create a new UI element accessible VIA a button on the standard UI. For example a "quest help" button, or a "mob locate" button, catch my drift? Also if anyone knows a way of working with those .data files they are one area i haven't been able to get into yet. Any help would be great! I'm still learning this stuff, I picked up on the instructions about the offsets and managed my own .exe's so far, this is hopefully my next step!

[jnel26]

Good Luck!!!