Originally Posted by Mace
I'm not sure if you've seen this, but I thought it might be relevant for the progress?


Thanks Mace, I saw those.

GUI is one of those things which appears not to be up for modding much by Larian mostly because it uses .swf and many games I have dabbled in use other formats, the most often I have come across is the .dds format. Those are basically icons/pictures.

.swf is proprietary technology owned by adobe, so you are forced to use their software to make the best of it, and the .swf is specially the 'end-result' compile of source material, it is not designed to be reversed engineered and this is intended, so people cannot simply 'steal your work'. This is obviously a big issue for modding as whilst we are not 'stealing it' but simply 'reusing it' to the benefit of Larian and the community, not having those source materials makes it very difficult to get right, especially with low-level of general expertise in the format.

Having the source material would also allow those 'less-savvy' to mod easier, as you can do 'rearranging the plate' to get the desired results compared to having to prepare the food and cook it all.