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 56975f8919 fix(terrain): align per-cell triangle geometry with ACE's ConstructPolygons convention
Our LandblockMesh, terrain.vert corner tables, and TerrainSurface.SampleZ
used the OPPOSITE diagonal for each CellSplitDirection enum value from
what ACE (and the decompiled retail client at FUN_00532a50) picks for the
same sign bit. Same formula, same sign-bit mapping, inverted geometry.

Symptom: remote players rendered at server-broadcast Z hovered or clipped
by up to ~1m on sloped cells. Flat cells masked the bug because all four
corner heights were equal so any triangle pair returned the same Z. Live
diagnostic confirmed +0.79m hover on cell (7,5) at lb(AA,B4) — a ~20°
slope — while flat neighbors agreed to floating-point noise.

Three coordinated edits so CPU mesh + GPU corner lookup + CPU sampler all
agree on the retail geometry:
 - LandblockMesh: SWtoNE branch now emits {BL,BR,TR}+{BL,TR,TL} (y=x cut),
   SEtoNW emits {BL,BR,TL}+{BR,TR,TL} (x+y=1 cut).
 - terrain.vert: corner-index tables updated to match.
 - TerrainSurface.SampleZ: swapped the two branches' interpolation.

After the fix, 19 live DIAG samples across flat + two slope transitions
all land within 0.01m of server Z. Staircase pattern during remote motion
on slopes is a separate bug (no per-frame collision resolution) and will
be addressed via the transition/FindValidPosition port.

Cross-verified against: ACE LandblockStruct.ConstructPolygons lines 221-
244, decompiled retail FUN_00532a50 (chunk_00530000.c:2235), ClientReference
IsSWtoNECut (tests/AcDream.Core.Tests/Terrain/ClientReference.cs).

Updated test SplitDirection_TerrainSurface_AgreesWith_TerrainBlending
with corrected expectations (Z values swap between the two branches).
All 717 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 13:20:59 +02:00
docs docs: mark Phase G.1+G.2 full visual stack as shipped 2026-04-19 10:54:33 +02:00
memory docs(memory): session 2026-04-19 handoff — remote motion port complete 2026-04-19 21:33:12 +02:00
src fix(terrain): align per-cell triangle geometry with ACE's ConstructPolygons convention 2026-04-21 13:20:59 +02:00
tests fix(terrain): align per-cell triangle geometry with ACE's ConstructPolygons convention 2026-04-21 13:20:59 +02:00
tools feat(core): port decompiled AC client physics — CollisionPrimitives + PhysicsBody 2026-04-12 23:54:51 +02:00
.gitignore chore: gitignore launch.log 2026-04-18 23:11:56 +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 docs(claude.md): add 'Running the client against the live server' section 2026-04-19 14:58:13 +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.