Serialization and Atlan Mod Packager

~~WIP~~Overview of serialization and Atlan Mod Packager

Eternal vs Dark Ages

Serialized Files vs Regular Decls

This section highlights differences between regular Dark Ages decls and Atlan-Serialized files. You must keep all of these in consideration when editing these files.

Colors

Serialized files use Linear RGB for color values. Example:

127.5 / 255 = 0.5
my_idColor = {
	r = 0.5; 
	g = 0.5;
	b = 0.5;
	a = 0.5;
}

File Paths

With normal decls, a reference to an entityDef file might look like this: entity = "projectile_ent/my_projectile_entity"

Inside serialized files, this same filepath will look like: entity = "entityDef/projectile_ent/my_projectile_entity"

The path before the first / is the file type. To correctly reserialize the file, you MUST ensure the file type is there, and capitalized accurately. See the end of this page for a list of correctly-capitalized file types.