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 ac2af96b15 docs(plan): roadmap with every observed defect mapped to a phase
Captures all the "this looks wrong" findings from the Phase 5 visual
verification and assigns each to a future phase. Top-of-document is
phases done, then phases ahead in suggested order, then a quick
lookup table that maps user complaints to their owning phase.

Phases ahead:
  6  Animation system (creature poses, walk/attack motions, breathe-idle)
  7  Multi-floor interiors + dungeons (second floors, foundry interior,
     subterranean rooms)
  8  Player input → server (movement, interact, ack pump, combat)
  9  Visual polish (portals, mesh-origin offsets, exact palette ranges,
     lighting/shadows)
 10  UI / HUD (chat, inventory, character panel, spellbook, minimap)
 11  Sound (SoundTable, audio engine, 3D positional audio)
 12  Streaming + perf (chunked landblock loading, frustum culling, LOD,
     background net thread)

Each phase entry has: what it owns, what it requires, references in the
existing references/ tree, and rough effort estimate.

Document is intentionally a living roadmap — updated whenever a phase
lands or when a new defect is observed that doesn't fit the existing
buckets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-11 18:30:55 +02:00
docs/plans docs(plan): roadmap with every observed defect mapped to a phase 2026-04-11 18:30:55 +02:00
src fix(core): SetupMesh prefers Placement.Resting over Default (Phase 5d) 2026-04-11 18:21:13 +02:00
tests feat(net): CreateObject body parser — GUID + Position + SetupId extracted (Phase 4.7d) 2026-04-11 15:18:54 +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.