User Interface Layout (game.nui)

Summary

This file format contains the markup of the game interface.

This file is just an XML. The encoding is always(?) EUC-KR for known samples.

The top level object is the <document>, which contains:

• FILEINFO
• DIALOGLIST
  • DIALOGs or Ds (old)
    • CONTROLs or Cs (old)
      • INFO
      • NATIONs
• COMPONENTLIST (old)
  • Cs (old)

graph TD
    document --> FILEINFO
    document --> DIALOGLIST
    document --> COMPONENTLIST["(old) COMPONENTLIST"]
    DIALOGLIST --> DIALOG
    DIALOGLIST --> D["(old) D"]
    DIALOG --> CONTROL
    CONTROL --> INFO
    CONTROL --> NATION
    INFO --> N
    D --> D_C["(old) C"]
    D_C --> |GUID| COMPONENTLIST_C
    COMPONENTLIST --> COMPONENTLIST_C["(old) C"]

Locations

• Data\gameui\game.nui
  • Data\ being Data_US\ or Data_TW\ or the equivalent for any other region

FAQ

Help, instead of korean I just see garbage!

Check the beginning of the file for a section like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="euc-kr" ?>. In this example it defines the encoding as EUC-KR.

Most text editors support reopening files in another encoding and if not already detected as EUC-KR, it should be changed.

In VS Code this can be done by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+P, selecting Change File Encoding, which lets you reopen or save the file in a different encoding.