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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Phase 4.7g visual verification turned up several issues and I needed
better visibility into what's actually streaming from the server.
Removes the "suppress after 10" limit on the spawn log and adds
drop-reason counters so I can distinguish "inventory item with no
position" (expected, ~16 per login) from "setup dat missing" and
"zero mesh refs" (unexpected failures).
Findings from a full live run with the new logging:
live: summary recv=60 hydrated=44 drops: noPos=16 noSetup=0
setupMissing=0 noMesh=0
Meaning: every positioned CreateObject is hydrating cleanly into
IGameState. The only drops are the 16 inventory/equipped items that
the server sends without a position (they inherit from their wearer).
The foundry statue is NOT being silently dropped at the codec layer —
it's in our render list somewhere, probably indistinguishable from
generic naked humanoids because we don't decode ObjectDesc yet.
User observations from the visual verification:
* NPCs + +Acdream visible, but naked (no clothing/armor)
* Doors now exist (Phase 4 win over offline-only)
* Portals render as black squares
* Foundry statue not identifiable (most likely a generic-looking
spawn due to missing ObjectDesc)
* Holtburg town crier sign half underground (small Z offset)
All of the "wrong appearance" findings trace back to the same root
cause: CreateObject.TryParse skips past ModelData without extracting
the palette swaps, texture changes, and animpart changes that define
each entity's unique visual presentation. Base setup mesh renders
as-is. Phase 5 work.
Next step in this session: port the ModelData parser (primarily the
AnimPartChanges list — replacing body parts with armored/statue
versions is the single biggest visual improvement for a character model).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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 directoryreferences/— 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.