Any need for contributions?

[CatchABus]

Would any kind of contribution help moving forward? Like some work on networking and packets simulation.

[realratchet]

Hey, thanks for interest. It definitely wouldn't hurt, the L2J project and various bots have pretty much fully decoded all required packets for emulating the client-side networking. However, I have recently accepted a year long contract in addition to my FTE so I don't expect to have a lot of time to work on this unfortunately.

There is a basic character controller which respects the collision hulls that could be used for connecting to the server as my short term goal was to make Talking Island explorable.

Last thing I was working on a separate branch which can fully decode the UE assets and UE scripts needed for mobs/skills in addition to refactoring how the assets are loaded.

So I would appreciate any contributions but just informing you that it might seem like the project has stopped, it hasn't and it pains me to not have time for it. Also if you do choose to help out, I know the README says it's C3 but eventually I got into a problem where I couldn't progress without a server running and I couldn't find a working solution to run my own C3 server due to some issues with missing updates so I switched the client to C4 and there are some edge cases that don't work with C3 assets.

https://github.com/realratchet/L2JLisvus (docker https://hub.docker.com/u/realratchet)
The client I used was the one I yoinked from elmore labs and changing the l2.ini

[CatchABus]

Hey, thanks for interest. It definitely wouldn't hurt, the L2J project and various bots have pretty much fully decoded all required packets for emulating the client-side networking. However, I have recently accepted a year long contract in addition to my FTE so I don't expect to have a lot of time to work on this unfortunately.

There is a basic character controller which respects the collision hulls that could be used for connecting to the server as my short term goal was to make Talking Island explorable.

Last thing I was working on a separate branch which can fully decode the UE assets and UE scripts needed for mobs/skills in addition to refactoring how the assets are loaded.

So I would appreciate any contributions but just informing you that it might seem like the project has stopped, it hasn't and it pains me to not have time for it. Also if you do choose to help out, I know the README says it's C3 but eventually I got into a problem where I couldn't progress without a server running and I couldn't find a working solution to run my own C3 server due to some issues with missing updates so I switched the client to C4 and there are some edge cases that don't work with C3 assets.

https://github.com/realratchet/L2JLisvus (docker https://hub.docker.com/u/realratchet) The client I used was the one I yoinked from elmore labs and changing the l2.ini

Hey, thanks a lot for responding and for all your effort on this. Also, good job on getting that contract!

It's unfortunate that you were forced to switch client.
I could help with the matter of C3 server emulator instead since I happen to be the maintainer of L2JLisvus, and some community members have been wanting this too. (one of them has also provided me with working client patches up to protocol 560)

This is an invitation to discord server if you haven't already joined and can contact us anytime: https://discord.com/invite/nsw2s4G
Hopefully, things will also be easier for you the next time you manage to revisit this project. 😄

[realratchet]

I didn't realize you're DnR :D Thanks, I will definitely revisit switching back to C3 someday in the future. The C2 & C3 disks I had burnt as a kid were retail versions without updates and protocol versions just weren't compatible with L2J server versions I had available, that's why I made a switch.

In any case joined the discord.