Q: DS:DC - Exporting all "Find files" results as JSON? And/or text UUIDs for ObjectUUID in JSON exports?

[anijatsu]

My goal is to mod Death Stranding: Director's Cut to hide/remove the distracting button prompts when the player character loses balance. There is a preference in HUD options to switch those off, but it impacts way more than just the balancing prompts - it includes interacting with objects/enemies, etc.

So far I managed to locate and erase the text corresponding to the "Shift weight left/right" prompts in localizedtextresources objects (Which in turn are located in Initial/localized/sentences/ds_ui/ds_action_icon/simpletext.core), but I am not sure how to now approach the hiding of the icons themselves.

My theories so far is that there could be either a logic file that triggers the entire UI element - the icon + localized string - to show up. Failing that, there should at least be a definition of the UI itself which defines how/where this element shows up.

I hoped there simply would be a .core file which references both the icon and the localizedtextresource object alongside it, but I haven't figured out a good way to search for those. "Find references to..." doesn't give me enough information - it does give me a few files, but having looked through them, I didn't spot any related entries...

So that's it for background.

Exporting JSONs from Find Files?

I was looking through interface/ds/ds_ui_general_icon.core and thought I could make the search a little faster. Knowing that #15 and #40 are already reported, is there a way to instead export a selection of items from "Find Files" window into a set of JSON files, the way that it is already possible to do on a per-file basis?

That'd make it a little easier because then I could try to cross-reference files using UUIDs of the objects through text search.

Readable/alphanumeric format for ObjectUUID in exported JSON files?

But I also noticed that within the exported JSON files ObjectUUID is not presented as text, I assume it's encoded somehow. E.g.:

[
	{
		"$type": "DSUIHUDPolygonElementResource",
		"ObjectUUID": {
			"$type": "GGUUID",
			"Data0": -84,
			"Data1": -79,
			"Data2": 100,
			"Data3": -72,
			"Data4": 73,
			"Data5": 31,
			"Data6": 78,
			"Data7": 31,
			"Data8": -121,
			"Data9": -34,
			"Data10": -40,
			"Data11": 80,
			"Data12": -107,
			"Data13": -42,
			"Data14": -18,
			"Data15": 20
		},

where in the program it shows up a copyable text format: {b864b1ac-1f49-1f4e-87de-d85095d6ee14}

I'd be grateful for advice!

[REDxEYE]

Hello, "export as json" exports data as-is, no formatting applied. GGUUID internally is an array of bytes.