Saints Row: The Third User Interface Questions

Kyle873

Kyle873

I was curious as to how the in-game user interface was created? What files and tools would be necessary in order to modify them or make additions/changes? Say to add a new page to the cell phone or insert new menu options into already existing menus.
 
Kyle873 said:
I was curious as to how the in-game user interface was created? What files and tools would be necessary in order to modify them or make additions/changes? Say to add a new page to the cell phone or insert new menu options into already existing menus.
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We use an internally developed tool to build our interface screens. I'm not overly familiar with these tools, but you would need to create textures, create vint documents and alter the existing phone screen document in order to add something to the screen.
 
Speaking of vint, which I assume stands for Volition Interface, any plans for vint tools? That's one thing we've never been able to work with.
 
IdolNinja said:
Speaking of vint, which I assume stands for Volition Interface, any plans for vint tools? That's one thing we've never been able to work with.
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That is one of the harder tools to port, but it is on our list to try and do that for you. At the least, we can release the file format.
 
flarn2006 said:
Port? Was it written to run on an Xbox or something? :confused:
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No.
In-House tools usually make use of in-house resources, like Version Controls and Remote file locations on servers.

They need to make sure they can strip all that stuff out and have it still function properly.
 
I don't completely understand how it couldn't work properly. If the files it needs are on a remote server, I doubt it would be very hard to modify it to load those files from a local directory, and include them in a ZIP file with the tool. The only way I can think of for this to be impossible is if the program operates by modifying the game's source code before it's compiled, but I doubt that would be an issue for something like an editor for externally-loaded interface files.

Could someone from Volition clarify please?
 
If you have a tool that's written to make use of resources at \\servername\fileshare\folder\folder\location, it's obviously not going to work anywhere but in a place where you have access to that server.
 
Arglaar said:
If you have a tool that's written to make use of resources at \\servername\fileshare\folder\folder\location, it's obviously not going to work anywhere but in a place where you have access to that server.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking, but it doesn't seem like it would be too hard to make it load from c:\sr3toolfolder\folder\folder\location instead. [V] Knobby seems to imply it could potentially be impossible.
 
flarn2006 said:
Yeah that's what I was thinking, but it doesn't seem like it would be too hard to make it load from c:\sr3toolfolder\folder\folder\location instead. [V] Knobby seems to imply it could potentially be impossible.
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You know, how things aren't like they always appear, probably not as easy as it seems.

Hopefully it gets figured out.
 
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