faction specific ui?

is it possible

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I haven't dabbled in it that much but I have been trying to create a new ingame ui. Now because of the radical differences of the factions in my mod (indeed even the vanilla game) I thought  might be more appropriate to give them different ui's. One being heavy militaristic/metal and the other perhaps looking holographic/plasma-like. Is it even possible to have different ui's?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
It looks hardcoded, for example the loading screen where your diffrent race is displayed has no informatin about which char image to pick in the .window file.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
That's in the player .entity file, in the "hudSkinData" section.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Indeed, how did I forget about that... lol

You would think I would remeber such things as "BottomWindowOverlayPhase" which is why I thought the game had originaly planned to have diffrent interfaces but then scrapped the idea and just made everything refrence the same file.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I think that's a nice idea. Deffinately add to the atmosphere of the game, personally I'd like to use a version of the mod for the vanilla races.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
That's in the player .entity file, in the "hudSkinData" section.
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Yep, I do believe it's possible, it just didn't get to happen for release.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
sweet! that's fantastic news for me. I'll get working right away