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 5f9df4d620 sky(phase-3e): drive WeatherSystem from DayGroup name — no more rogue rain
User reported rain in acdream while retail showed a clear sunny sky
after Phase 3d landed. Root cause: two independent weather systems
running in parallel.

  1. Retail DayGroup picker (FUN_00501990 port, Phase 3c/3c.1) —
     selected DayGroup[6] "Sunny" correctly.
  2. WeatherSystem.Tick (legacy stub from pre-decompile era) —
     kept rolling its own hardcoded PDF every day (60% Clear, 20%
     Overcast, 12% Rain, 5% Snow, 3% Storm), independent of the
     DayGroup picker. Its output drove the rain/snow particle
     emitters via UpdateWeatherParticles. If its hash happened to
     land on Rain for today's dayIndex, rain rendered even on a
     Sunny DayGroup day.

Retail has ONE source of truth for weather: the DayGroup roll. There
is no separate weather state machine — rain/snow/storm are implied by
the DayGroup name and its per-keyframe SkyObjectReplace settings.

Fix (Phase 3e):
- WeatherSystem.SetKindFromDayGroupName(string?) — loose substring
  match on the retail DayGroup name: "storm" → Storm, "snow" → Snow,
  "rain" → Rain, "cloud"/"overcast"/"dark"/"fog" → Overcast, else
  Clear. Case-insensitive. Covers the names observed in the live
  Dereth dat dump (Sunny, Clear, Cloudy, Rainy + inferred variants).
- WeatherSystem._externallyDriven flag disables the internal
  RollKind auto-roll once SetKindFromDayGroupName has been called at
  least once. Tests that drive Tick() directly keep the legacy
  hash-roll behavior (offline fallback). ForceWeather still works
  for debug overrides.
- GameWindow.RefreshSkyForCurrentDay calls
  Weather.SetKindFromDayGroupName(grp.Name) right after it installs
  the new SkyStateProvider. Logs the resulting WeatherKind on the
  same line as the DayGroup pick for correlation.
- New WeatherSystemTests.SetKindFromDayGroupName_MapsRetailNames
  (theory, 14 cases) + SetKindFromDayGroupName_DisablesInternalRoll.

Expected effect: Sunny/Clear DayGroups → no rain emitter. Rainy/Stormy
DayGroups → rain emitter active. The user's specific scenario
(DayGroup[6] "Sunny") now correctly maps to WeatherKind.Clear and no
particles spawn.

Build + 733 tests green (+16 new).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-24 09:32:27 +02:00
docs sky(phase-3c): port retail FUN_00501990 DayGroup picker (uniform LCG) 2026-04-24 08:45:34 +02:00
memory docs(memory): session 2026-04-19 handoff — remote motion port complete 2026-04-19 21:33:12 +02:00
src sky(phase-3e): drive WeatherSystem from DayGroup name — no more rogue rain 2026-04-24 09:32:27 +02:00
tests sky(phase-3e): drive WeatherSystem from DayGroup name — no more rogue rain 2026-04-24 09:32:27 +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.