Addon API is coming to RIFT

[Zal]

Biggest thing I look forward to with addons in Rift: unit frames customization. The default ones _suck_.

I fail to see how the UI is bad in rift when they give you the option to customize it however you like. Just bring up the menu and hit Edit Layout.

[Alge]

they give you the option to customize it however you like

This statement is only true for very limited values of "however you like".

Here is a small list of things that I would like to be able to do but can't do with Edit Layout:

• Remove the completely useless portraits. Combo points for rogues can go elsewhere.
• Remove the huge borders that most of the UI elements have.
• Have the raid frames flow horizontally rather than vertically.
• Show HoTs on raid frames.
• Change the relative size of health/mana/charge bars on unit frames. One of these is more important than the others.

There are many, many others. From my perspective, the default Rift UI is an exercise in bad UI design with a sheen of customisability. It seems to have been designed solely to make the transition from WoW as easy as possible. I hope they give us the option of changing every aspect of its look and feel.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

This statement is only true for very limited values of "however you like".

Here is a small list of things that I would like to be able to do but can't do with Edit Layout:

• Remove the completely useless portraits. Combo points for rogues can go elsewhere.
• Remove the huge borders that most of the UI elements have.
• Have the raid frames flow horizontally rather than vertically.
• Show HoTs on raid frames.
• Change the relative size of health/mana/charge bars on unit frames. One of these is more important than the others.

There are many, many others. From my perspective, the default Rift UI is an exercise in bad UI design with a sheen of customisability. It seems to have been designed solely to make the transition from WoW as easy as possible. I hope they give us the option of changing every aspect of its look and feel.

This ^^^^^.

Positioning = CHECK
Sizing/scaling = CHECK
Showing text in the health/mana bars = CHECK
Resizing other portions to basically give you anything similar to Pitbull/etc. that WoW had = FAIL

I'm not after every single feature like overheal prediction or full grid functionality but I'd very, very, very much like to be able to have 5 big green squares that show me something similar to the raid frames but in different order/etc. for team-only and/or raids. Also, ordering by alpha or discrete names would be nice.