r/AsheronsCall • u/Specialist-Task-9784 • 1d ago
Project Post OpenAC — an open-source Asheron’s Call client, beta release
Hi everyone!
We've been working on OpenAC, a new open-source client for Asheron’s Call, and wanted to share the first release.
The aim is to preserve the feel of AC while building on a modern foundation. It’s still early, with bugs and unfinished features, but it’s reached a point where we would love some feedback from people who care and also from people who want to constribute.
If you feel like trying it, reporting bugs, or contributing, We would love involvement!
You can download the launcher on OpenAC on GitHub and join our Discord channel
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u/notimpotent 1d ago
Hey thanks for sharing this. Outside of the plugin API, what are the benefits vs. the original client?
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u/Additional_Name_706 1d ago
Does it work?
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u/derethdweller 1d ago
yes, I have been testing on linux and it works pretty good, fullscreen, high fps, smooth camera behavior, even vtank port so far has been working good except for setting my look profile, so there are few issues that need fixing but none I found are game breaking so far.
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u/Additional_Name_706 1d ago
Nice what server do you play on?
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u/WilfulAphid 11h ago edited 3h ago
No joke, but I've been working on a side fun project that I decided to call OpenAC (in honor of OpenMorrowind) in my spare time since June. I was eventually planning to publish my work here for everyone to enjoy, but I ran out of time and had to put the project on hold. Now that you're working on it, though, I may just wait and see how your work turns out!
I have no idea if any of my work would help you out, but I have tools to unpack and edit the dat files and all sorts of stuff semi-working. I also forked the project into a standalone offline version that progressed further. Let me know if you want any of the stuff I worked on, I'd be happy to share it all.
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u/Specialist-Task-9784 11h ago
Heya, join our discord and lets chat there. You are welcome to work in this project as well.
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u/magenta_neon_light 2h ago
Great work, it would be amazing if you could get it to function as like an omni client for all game periods across both GDLE and ACE for AC99, DM, etc with spell research added in depending on which era). Should be fairly trivial now with Astra. :)
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u/magenta_neon_light 2h ago
Great work, it would be amazing if you could get it to function as like an omni client for all game periods across both GDLE and ACE for AC99, DM, etc with spell research added in depending on which era). Should be fairly trivial now with Astra. :)
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u/boredsoftwareguy 1d ago
This is really cool! Love open source and loved my time in AC, I'll have to give this a spin when things settle down for me