Setekh

yet every player and server owner accepts l2.exe or anti-cheat software from some dudes off the internet, running with admin privs :))

Wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't require Admin privs. unlike regular L2 lol.

It's more of an emulator than a client, it decrypts and loads everything at runtime. I dabbled in it on C4, to experiment with graphics, and got a bit far, but not as far as @Elfo, I don't even think this guy sleeps lol. Some of my dabbling: https://streamable.com/0rx1nu - terrain bsp and static objects https://streamable.com/t4tzgm - collision and camera collision via a physics engine (box3d) Some ray query tracing tests https://imgur.com/a/gj6jvq4

since it's java I'd rather use reflection or bytecode injection with javaassist. Not gonna tell ya how to do it, but if you research a bit, im sure u'll figure it out.

Thanks, I forgot about New World, after the buggy launch scandal. I heard they fixed it up and planning an content update. And yeah I'm also waiting for ashes, hope it's gonna actually launch. Keeping up to date on it fr Narc's YouTube channel.

I started with C4 on dexternet, then higher rates like elite pvp and clones of it on interlude. Later made my own servers and stopped playing after that. Then when Aion was available as private servers I started playing it, stopped, played a lil bit of wow on private and stopped again after a few months. When I didn't play L2 or an mmo, I would play games like elder scrolls oblivion & Skyrim (got like thousands of hours in that game) replayed games a lot like mass effect and assassin's creed. Right now its mostly cyberpunk 2077 and try out different builds. My first mmo was mu online, quite popular in Romania. And our main internet provider Digi, actually hosts or hosted the largest mu online server, linkmania. Im thinking of picking up guild wars 2. Regret not playing archage at launch L2 is mostly dead to me, i liked it till C5, then it turned in this weirdo korean fantasy game.

Not sure if the new client is x64, but wine can't run l2 on macOs since its 32bit, and since Catalina all that's x86 got removed, so if you brew install wine, you'll have wine64, and wine32 will crash. I tried making it work so many times T_T, since 2019. Most luck I had was with Parrallels vm's, but its not worh even developing like that. Maybe boot camp can help ? only thing I havent tried, since it always said that my windows 10 image is bad or something. Also for the "detection part" there are ways to trick the "anti cheat(lol)" to think it's running on a real device, usually what they do is look for strings to match those of real devices, like instead of video card manufacturer as "Microsoft Coorporation" to be "NVIDIA" and so on, with some registry tweaks and a few hours you may be successful. Nvidia had this protection once where the driver failed if it was a shared device in VMs, assholes >.>

Thanks, i'll take a look LE: A.. they didn't get far Found this tho https://github.com/Ruk33/l2auth, someone is giving it a go in C, which i kinda dig.

Thanks for understanding , that's what i want. :)

I have no idea what you're talking about. But ok I guess. (Dunno what TFlow or AE CS and etc, also i thought 3d max was dead)

But java is slow compared to a aot compiled language :D Also i'd just stick to open source software for 3d, so for asset creation it's blender and for a get up fast game engine its godot. Also not arguing buds, I'm actually hoping I can get someone as motivated to maybe watch or work with me :) LE: Here's a short presentation with blender

But i did it before with other games, to some degree. Performance is in architecture not so much language, you can make it in asm and still underperform. And about languages: Kotlin = Java -> BUT! Its less verbose and has really nice utils and you can get up and running really fast, at times it can be slower than java since it has overhead runtime checks. Go -> is a machine language with a GC with sweeps under 0.5 ms. Rust -> is basically C but with an awesome compiler and a rich toolkit. (Voted most loved language) I'm not saying imma complete a mmo server by myself, i'll most probably hit a limit where I can't do it alone anymore. That's why my scope is little, and will be like interpreting of static data that we already have in l2off and l2j, combat & a completeness of client features, I'm not gonna do quests, epic bosses or elaborate systems, unless someone else wants to make up a team. Also take my veteran advice, dealing with a small scale server != designing architectures for finleap companies with 300+ people & collaborators & several banking service providers. And i really wanna get proficient with go thats why this motivates me, if it's gonna help someone fine, if not I learn more go, so i'll be happy at the end. Thanks for the concern tho :*