Possibility to open FFXIV up to a moddable UI?

[Ilean]

Ah, WIN!

It may not be perfect but it's years ahead the shippy UI we have now.

Hello SE, serif fonts aren't the best for screen display.

I tried to photoshop an UI and how i would like to see it.

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...en/uiffxiv.jpg

(Blue squares are a tooltip).


upper left, your class, your exp bar, what you got on main hands, if a bow equiped, what ammo you're wearing, then some Arrows you are carrying in your bag, (different color meaning different ammo type), could have put how many arrow left on different type.
Bag inventory, gils on you (probably add guildmarks and stuff like that). upper right the buff/debuff on you.
Down right, target mode (ALL), minimap (square) with the R/S button that can change to orange/red depending on your traffic connection, with a tooltip that show the exact R/S. Took the buttons skin from Steam Buttonfacade (wowinterface), but any skin could be fine, that will show all the bar (and then their recast).

this is a minimalistic try, i didn't add my own bar or enemy bar or stuff like that.


My guess, it could be a great idea to let player design their own Unit Interface, without giving access to real "mods" (SE can probably easily grant access or not to thoses functions).

I dont think people can cheat with thoses things allowed, anyway, not allowing a mod and an ls asking you to use it, it's like asking you to use a claim bot to join an HNM ls (and some of FFXI linkshell ask that badly...).

(sorry for my bad english).

[Dreamer]

Ah, WIN!

It may not be perfect but it's years ahead the shippy UI we have now.

Hello SE, serif fonts aren't the best for screen display.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that isn't it for me. I dislike how the map is just sitting out there in the middle of screen, unnecessary icons everywhere, and where is my hp/mp bar? The fonts do look nice, but not at the expense of having such an awful number of unnecessary action bars cluttering up my screen.

[Ilean]

Functional > Pretty

That aside, there is no reason why we couldn't still relocate UI elements.

Edit:
Also, I would love the minimap to go the Tera route and become transparent: http://images.mmosite.com/tera/image...terface02l.jpg

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that isn't it for me. I dislike how the map is just sitting out there in the middle of screen, unnecessary icons everywhere, and where is my hp/mp bar? The fonts do look nice, but not at the expense of having such an awful number of unnecessary action bars cluttering up my screen.