Modifying the User Interface

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.

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.