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Suggest adding an optional entry to all prototypes, Userdata (Or some other name, based on Wc3 equivilent). Essentially, its a table, which can be setup however you want, and can be accessed via script. This would allow custom information to be attached to any prototype, which scripts can use.

What's the use case?

Allowing data.lua and control.lua to communicate with each other.

DaveMcW wrote:Allowing data.lua and control.lua to communicate with each other.

But why?

As a workaround to this.

DaveMcW wrote:As a workaround to this.

No, that's a garbage solution.

We do a ton of post-processing of the data.raw data so even if it was available runtime it would be mostly wrong.

How hard could it be to transfer a single table over? I mean, how different is that from the basically unchanged Max Health stat?

How hard could it be to transfer a single table over? I mean, how different is that from the basically unchanged Max Health stat?
I can understand that you take the original table and convert it into something far more compact without excessive information, so the game can use it without as much computation cost.. Or something, but that is why I made something that would be entirely out of the way.