[request]directly injecting/redirecting dat mods into memory?

Would it be possible to make a plugin that could directly inject some types of dats into memory

instead of having to manually hard-mod them and then reverting -> patching -> remodifying them at every patch?

Or if you could simply redirect it to load a file's contents from another location

I'm mainly talking 2d assets/ui stuff that is always loaded into memory

Since most of these never have their formats changed, only their contents.

It would certianly make it a lot easier to do stuff such as:

• status effect icon mods
• ui background style mods
• ui stytle/cursor
• player icon mods (the icons next to your name)
• ingame map mods

The ui dats are already made up of multiple files in a container,

Example:

Signet in the english dats is:

<ffxi root>\ROM\119\57.dat/st00_32

if you could redirect it to something such as

<windower root>\plugins\memload (or whatever)\ROM\119\57\st00_32.bmp

If anything this functionality would be added to LuaCore so addons could take advantage of it.