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* the game engine calls and interprets the text-mdl files, and some image-mdl files. | * the game engine calls and interprets the text-mdl files, and some image-mdl files. | ||
* the text-mdl files contain formatting, behaviour and placement instructions for the images and text. | * the text-mdl files contain formatting, behaviour and placement instructions for the images and text. | ||
* Images can be in the form of image-mdls, which are basically bitmaps wrapped in some code, or PNG files. | * Images can be in the form of image-mdls, which are basically bitmaps wrapped in some code, or PNG files (and [http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/features.html many more formates]). | ||
= The Game Engine = | = The Game Engine = | ||
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introduction
Allegiance's User Interface can be modified to an extensive degree. Several Mods have been made, and more are in progress of being developed.
Allegiance User Interfaces are determined by three sources
- the game engine calls and interprets the text-mdl files, and some image-mdl files.
- the text-mdl files contain formatting, behaviour and placement instructions for the images and text.
- Images can be in the form of image-mdls, which are basically bitmaps wrapped in some code, or PNG files (and many more formates).
The Game Engine
Understandably, not much can be altered here.
MDL
This is where modders spend most of their time.
Images
Creating or altering images is not difficult, given some experience with a decent graphics program.
