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Today Allakhazam held a developer chat with the folks at SOE. A chat log of the event has been posted for your reading pleasure. Many different questions were answered and its a great read. I've quoted the one question directly related to UI Authors...

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kiara: Question number eight (point 5 --Bludwyng): (Stugein) Any chance you guys can pass Pet Health to the clients in the same way you pass group member health so UI modders can add members' pets' health to group windows to make life easier for healers?

Autenil: I've actually wanted this forever. Unfortunately we haven't had time to do it.

Autenil: I could probably be talked into getting this on the schedule as something that UI modders would be able to do.

Autenil: We probably wouldn't be adding it to the default UI though. :)

they take it all wrong. they didnt ask for it to be added to the default, they asked for the data to be exposed to the client so people can use it in their own mods.

soe really needs to sit down and expose more data sources as objects/datapoints that people can use.

theres a couple i would love to have for use with the G15, but they dont exist as exposed data

/sigh

I think, that even adding the dynamic data will be a bit of hassle and that is why it wasn't done "on the fly".

But nice to hear that it still isn't ruled out.

I can see it already, 48 slot raid window for 24 people + their 24 pets (assuming they only add the data for the first pet). WTB a larger screen.

Data for raidwide impairments would be much more interesting tbh.