Modern open-source C# .NET 10 Asheron's Call client. Faithful port of retail client behaviour to Silk.NET with a plugin API.
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Erik 4752b8a528 chore(app): drop per-spawn animation diagnostic dump now that breathing works
The first-30-spawns dump was one-shot diagnostic to find the HighFrame=-1
sentinel bug. User confirmed breathing works post-fix (15 animated
entities registered at spawn 60, zero single-frame rejections — all
remaining rejections are framerate=0 static objects like chests,
doors, wells, which legitimately shouldn't idle-animate). The summary
animated-count line stays since it's useful for ongoing debugging.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-11 20:27:24 +02:00
docs/plans docs(plan): roadmap with every observed defect mapped to a phase 2026-04-11 18:30:55 +02:00
src chore(app): drop per-spawn animation diagnostic dump now that breathing works 2026-04-11 20:27:24 +02:00
tests feat(core): SurfaceDecoder — add PFID_P8, PFID_R8G8B8, and PFID_X8R8G8B8 2026-04-11 19:23:57 +02:00
.gitignore chore: phase 0 — skeleton + dat asset inventory 2026-04-10 09:02:56 +02:00
AcDream.slnx feat(net): AcDream.Core.Net scaffold + ISAAC keystream (Phase 4.1) 2026-04-11 14:14:28 +02:00
CLAUDE.md feat(net+app): SubPalette overlays applied to palette-indexed textures (Phase 5b) 2026-04-11 16:30:08 +02:00
README.md chore: phase 0 — skeleton + dat asset inventory 2026-04-10 09:02:56 +02:00

acdream

Experimental modern open-source Asheron's Call client in C# / .NET 10.

Status: pre-alpha, not playable. Phase 0 only — dat file asset inventory.

Stack: .NET 10, Chorizite.DatReaderWriter for dat parsing. Silk.NET + Avalonia planned for rendering/UI (not yet wired up).

Requires: A retail Asheron's Call install (Turbine/Microsoft property — supply your own). Set ACDREAM_DAT_DIR environment variable to the directory containing client_portal.dat, client_cell_1.dat, client_highres.dat, and client_local_English.dat, or pass it as the first CLI argument.

Layout

  • src/AcDream.Cli/ — console app that dumps asset counts from a dat directory
  • references/ — local read-only reference material (ACE, ACViewer, WorldBuilder, DatReaderWriter, holtburger, retail AC install). Gitignored.

Run

dotnet run --project src/AcDream.Cli -- "C:\path\to\Asheron's Call"

Or set ACDREAM_DAT_DIR and run without args.