UI Modding Possible? What about conversations/voice acting?

[salec]

I've been digging through some of the modding docs while I sit here at work and I'm not seeing much info concerning UI modding. Does anyone know if it's possible?

What about conversation topics and voice acting? I'm a bit tired of having the same conversation scripts come up and would like to throw in a few additional ones.

[enenra]

Conversations and voice acting are no problem technically, just a lot of work.

UI modding is and will be very limited until we get access to the LUA files (which might never actually happen).

[Tenlar Scarflame]

hmph. I thought the LUA files were supposed to be open season for modders. That was the pitch from months ago, anyway...

[salec]

Are they precompiled Lua scripts or just embedded in the cat files?

Lua is great for modding as long as the API is well documented and up to date. Here's hoping

[MegaJohnny]

Hold the phone, Rebirth uses Lua for the UI? I'd love to get my hands on that, but how do we know this?

[UniTrader]

Hold the phone, Rebirth uses Lua for the UI? I'd love to get my hands on that, but how do we know this?

in the Cats/dats there is a folder which is called ui/core/lua and contains over two dozen xpl files

[MutantDwarf]

Are they precompiled Lua scripts or just embedded in the cat files?

Lua is great for modding as long as the API is well documented and up to date. Here's hoping

It uses precompiled LuaJIT files. They can be decompiled, but I'm not sure if we can recompile them in order to use them, and the decompiled files don't include things like variable names. They're still just barely readable, though.

[enenra]

Are they precompiled Lua scripts or just embedded in the cat files?

Lua is great for modding as long as the API is well documented and up to date. Here's hoping

It uses precompiled LuaJIT files. They can be decompiled, but I'm not sure if we can recompile them in order to use them, and the decompiled files don't include things like variable names. They're still just barely readable, though.

They don't need to necessarily be compiled again. There were and probably are ways to make uncompiled ones take precedent.

[Syphus]

As an actor, feel free to hire me to do all the voices you desire.

[L00cK]

Would be a shame if they dont let the modders mod a pc friendly ui, i guess egosoft will not change their ui because they were really proud of their controller friendly ui at the preiview events.

[Chobittsu]

As an actor, feel free to hire me to do all the voices you desire.

Same, I work for peanuts

[stk25]

Are they precompiled Lua scripts or just embedded in the cat files?

Lua is great for modding as long as the API is well documented and up to date. Here's hoping

It uses precompiled LuaJIT files. They can be decompiled, but I'm not sure if we can recompile them in order to use them, and the decompiled files don't include things like variable names. They're still just barely readable, though.

They don't need to necessarily be compiled again. There were and probably are ways to make uncompiled ones take precedent.

It looked like the LuaJIT decompiler only decompiled it to some intermediate Lua assembly format though, it doesn't resemble Lua at all, not sure if the Lua engine in XR could read them. Then again though I might have been decompiling them wrong...
Be much better if Ego would release the Lua sources

[enenra]

@stk25 It's not unlikely to happen. ^^
The question is when...