RDL Text

Infocards stored in Freelancer resource .dlls are stored in an XML format referred to as RDL. These are encoded as UTF-16 text with a BOM.

Sample infocard:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<RDL>
    <PUSH/>
    <TEXT>Welcome to the Librelancer infocard example XML!</TEXT>
    <PARA/>
    <TEXT>This is the second paragraph</TEXT>
    <POP/>
</RDL>

RDL format takes a series of XML elements as sequential instructions.

Elements

PUSH

TODO, should be present at start of RDL

POP

TODO, should be present at the end of RDL

TEXT

Adds the text between <TEXT> and </TEXT> to the rich text with the current attributes.

JUST

Changes the text alignment, in format <JUST LOC="alignment"/> where accepted values are LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER

PARA

Paragraph, adds a line break. Similar to HTML <p>

TRA

Text Render Attributes, use this to change the font style, text colors etc. This comes in two forms.

Packed Form

The first packs the data into integers using a bitfield, e.g:<TRA DATA="1" MASK="1" DEF="0"/> will set the font to bold. DATA contains the values, MASK contains which values are used, and DEF serves as MASK but takes default values. Valid bitfield values are:

The XML tags only store signed decimal 32-bit integers, if editing manually it is best to do bitwise in hex then convert to decimal for the tag. Colours are stored: BBGGRR00.

Example: Red, bold text

DATA = Bold (0x1) | Red (0x1D1DBF00) = 0x1D1DBF01 MASK = Bold (0x1) | Color (0xFFFFFF00) = 0xFFFFFF01

Converted to signed decimal 32-bit integers this gives us the tag <TRA DATA="488488705" MASK="-255" DEF="0"/>

Unpacked Form

This is a more standard form, where the TRA tag has data in individual attributes.

Those attributes are:

Font index for both forms refers to the [TrueType] section in rich_fonts.ini.

An example entry being

[TrueType]
font = 0, Arial, 22
font = 1, Times New Roman, 35

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