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 9957070cab feat(render): Phase G.1/G.2 — SceneLighting UBO + sky renderer + shader integration
Wire the existing LightManager + WorldTimeService state into visible
rendering. Every draw call (terrain, static mesh, instanced mesh, sky)
now shares one SceneLighting UBO at binding=1 carrying:
  - 8 Light slots (Directional / Point / Spot, retail hard-cutoff)
  - Ambient RGB + active light count
  - Fog start/end/mode + color + lightning flash scalar
  - Camera world position + day fraction

The CPU side (SceneLightingUbo in Core.Lighting) is a POD struct that
gets BufferSubData'd once per frame from GameWindow.OnRender. Shaders
read the block via `layout(std140, binding = 1) uniform SceneLighting`
— no per-program uniform uploads.

Shader changes:
  - mesh.frag + mesh_instanced.frag accumulate 8 dynamic lights per
    fragment using the retail no-attenuation hard-cutoff model
    (r13 §10.2 / §13.1). Sun reads slot 0; spots use hard cos-cone test.
    Additive lightning flash + linear fog layered on top. Saturate
    clamps per-channel to 1.0.
  - terrain.vert bakes AdjustPlanes sun+ambient per vertex using the
    retail MIN_FACTOR = 0.08 ambient floor (r13 §7). terrain.frag adds
    fog + flash on top of the baked vertex color.
  - mesh.vert + mesh_instanced.vert emit vWorldPos so the fragment
    stage can do per-pixel lighting against world-space positions.
  - New sky.vert / sky.frag pair — unlit, scroll-UV, camera-centered,
    with its own 0.1..1e6 far plane. Ports WorldBuilder's skybox.

SkyRenderer (new file in App/Rendering/Sky/) ports WorldBuilder's
SkyboxRenderManager verbatim for the C# idiom: zeroed view translation,
dedicated projection, depth mask off, iterate each visible SkyObject
in the day group, apply arc transform (Z rot for heading + Y rot for
arc sweep), feed TexVelocityX/Y as a scrolling UV offset, apply
per-keyframe SkyObjectReplace overrides (mesh swap + transparency +
luminosity) for overcast / dusk cloud variants.

GameWindow integration:
  - OnLoad parses Region (0x13000000) into LoadedSkyDesc and hot-swaps
    WorldTime's provider to the dat-accurate keyframes. Seeds to noon
    for offline rendering. Creates the SceneLightingUboBinding and the
    SkyRenderer.
  - OnRender: set clear color from atmosphere fog, tick WeatherSystem,
    spawn/stop rain/snow camera-local emitters on kind change, feed
    sun to LightManager (zero intensity indoors — r13 §13.7), tick
    LightManager against viewer pos, build + upload the UBO, draw
    sky before terrain, draw terrain + static + instanced using the
    shared UBO.

5 new UBO packing tests (struct sizes, slot population, 8-light cap,
directional slot 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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tests feat(render): Phase G.1/G.2 — SceneLighting UBO + sky renderer + shader integration 2026-04-19 10:39:48 +02:00
tools feat(core): port decompiled AC client physics — CollisionPrimitives + PhysicsBody 2026-04-12 23:54:51 +02:00
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AcDream.slnx feat(net): AcDream.Core.Net scaffold + ISAAC keystream (Phase 4.1) 2026-04-11 14:14:28 +02:00
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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.