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Hi all, Sometime last year I started working on a Ragnarok client. (Again...) It's very close in behavior to the original client, using DirectX and the original 3rd party libraries (granny2.dll, mss32.dll etc). It doesn't have a name yet, but I like to think of it as my "SakExe", since that's what it's based on. At this point it can be used for basic gameplay, though much of the user interface is still missing, as well as a lot of the effects. Recently I've made a few changes, making an alternative rendering implementation using OpenGL. After a little work I was able to compile my client for Linux and finally Android. I'll use this topic as a showcase/work log. Feel free to ask any questions. And now for some pictures... DirectX mode on Windows 8. Some features like the Granny3D actors are only supported on Windows. It's working great on Android, although some additional tweaks are needed to make it more accessible. What I've done so far is to scale the UI to make it easier to hit buttons, and adding touch gestures for things like camera rotation. This is with OpenGL ES rendering on my x86 Android phone (1920x1080). It also runs on 32 bit ARM. I've been testing it on both my newest phone and my old Samsung Galaxy Note II, the latter of which is a little over 3 years old at this point. Originally I got like 0.5~2 FPS on my phones with my naive GL renderer, but after some work the performance it pretty solid on both of my phones.

Please Use This code. it will be fixed your problem. //---------------------------------------- // Tell client how many pages, kRO sends 17 (Yommy) //---------------------------------------- void chclif_charlist_notify( int fd, struct char_session_data* sd ){ WFIFOHEAD(fd, 6); WFIFOW(fd, 0) = 0x9a0; // pages to req / send them all in 1 until mmo_chars_fromsql can split them up WFIFOL(fd, 2) = (sd->char_slots>3)?sd->char_slots/3:1; //int TotalCnt (nb page to load) WFIFOSET(fd,6); }

you can revert this ? https://github.com/rathena/rathena/commit/aea025e and test again

Did you used the kRO from nickyzai? I experience client crashing when I used the kro from nickyzai. After I tried this one. LINK I didn't encounter crashing anymore.

storage_storageadd() gets items from your inventory, not the cart. There is a storage_storageaddfromcart() function, which you would use instead.

Forgotten features While revisiting games I've played for years, one of the things I find the most exciting is discovering new features. By this I mean features that were planned at some point, but in the end never made it into the final product. When projects get to a certain size there will always be a few ideas that are rejected - some at a stage where you can still find remnants in the final product. In the case of Ragnarok we even had the lead designer leaving the company relatively early on. Despite the reason for this not being public, one of the reasons I've heard cited is that he didn't get the creative freedom he wanted. Who knows what might have been? In any event, what follows are a few features I've discovered that never made it into the final game. Highly immersive footwear As you're probably aware, the player characters change appearance based on the equipped items. The first layers are the body and head sprites, followed by up to three different accessories (upper, lower, mid). There's the left and right hand weapons, as well as the shield. Different sprites for different shoes were planned as well. In old versions of the network protocol you can even find shoe IDs in the player structures. This feature was most likely eventually left out because it would simply be too much work to animate the shoes for all the different classes. Even special weapon and shield sprites have been somewhat limited in use, and I believe these require significantly less work than it would take to create shoe sprites. Having players leaving footprints was also planned early on. From the looks of it this was originally meant to complement the different shoe types. I think when they scrapped shoe sprites idea they also forgot about the footprints. The effect is still present in the client, although I believe they intended to refine it a bit more. I guess it was eventually used for the Stalker class' Stealth skill. Here's what it would originally have looked like if enabled when normal players walk around: Destroyable maps? In Ragnarok the map is completely static, which is pretty boring. A partially implement feature would allow dynamic changes in the map elevation. It's uncertain how this would be used in practice, and therefore also why they chose to leave it out. Maybe they intended that the map could be destroyed by skills? E.g. have meteor storm leave a deep crater on the ground. That could be a pretty cool feature. Maybe I'll try implementing it myself someday. Model culling Another cool effect that was left out was having static models between the camera and the player disappear so that they don't hide the player. I'm not sure if the models were planned to be completely or just partially hidden. This feature was more or less complete, but the approach used is maybe to simple so that it doesn't always work as intended. I also discovered a bug in the calculation of the bounding box used especially for this purpose. You can actually try out this feature by using NEMO patcher, as I found a relatively simple approach to enabling it. Just enable "Restore model culling" when patching your client. Sky box This one is pretty self-explanatory if you've ever worked with 3D. Instead of having the background of the map be completely black (or blue like in Yuno), the client could instead show a picture of the sky or a landscape in the far distant. It's one of the simplest and most common effects used in video games to improve immersion, so it's a shame they never got around to finishing it. Weather There are some working weather related effects like snow and fog in-game, but a much more comprehensive system was planned at some point. This would include dynamic sun location and a true day/night cycle. One problem was probably that model shadows in Ragnarok are precomputed. A rain effect was implemented, but it was probably never finished as it looks pretty bad. The jRO team used to have some pictures related to this on their news page, and I believe they planned to release the new weather system with the Yuno update. Private server developers took matters into their own hands. If you played on an eAthena server around 2004 you may remember the horrible night effect that was enabled by default: Enabling the blind effect on all players until it was "morning" again! Everything 3D Considering the fact that licensing the RAD Game Tools SDK must have been pretty expensive, it's strange that Gravity never did more with Granny3D than implementing guild flags, the emperium and the castle guardians. (Not to mention Zombie Dragon!) Additionally as I mentioned in a previous post, Gravity already had their own RSX format which would have been sufficient if they only wanted a few simple 3D actors. The obvious explanation is that they wanted to do much more with it. Indeed, it appears that at one point they planned to introduce 3D customizable player characters. Perhaps this was a reaction to contemporary MMO titles, where full 3D quickly became the norm. The results of these experiments were never disclosed, so what it would have looked like is a mystery.

in the addon, did you guys check to see if the theme folder in the addon is name the same as your theme.