XPRO : cross platform client

[vykimo 68]

I'm not sure if I'm right to post here, I hesitated a lot by fear of being reprimanded. But I'm convinced the project worths to be known and don't be lost in oblivion... So that's why I venture to post, so please forgive me if crowdfunding is not allowed. I try to be fair as much in this demarche.
So, now let's explain the project :

XPRO

https://intro.vykimo.com/

I. PRINCIPLE

Based on the project RoBrowser by KeyWorld (a RO client on web browser). XPRO is the project to update RoBrowser and to bring it into Mobile devices.

XPRO goal is to fully support this following exe version (latest version supported by rAthena): 2018-06-20aRagexe.

This project is very huge and it's currently the most advanced custom RO client ever made. And it has the main advantage to be cross platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android supported) and very lightweight (ressources can be downloaded only when needed by the game engine).

 

II. MORE INFOS

You can find more infos on progress on my personnal website : https://vykimo.com/ (menu : zerobrowser)

Screen Example :

 

Watch it live - Playthrough in Orc Dungeon :

 

 

UPDATE 10/12/2019

BETA TEST :

I made 3 days of "real condition" tests with a team of 3 advanced players.

It was successfull, feedbacks were great and they only reported a few bugs in order to play "normally" on a RO server. What a good step !

In parallel, I talked with @Functor about possible Gepard Shield support in XPRO. But as you probably know, including Gepard Shield into Robrowser/AndRO opens a door in your server for bots. And we don't want to break his shield, so I'll work on my own encryption method. It'll be available later on...

 

UPDATE 03/01/2020

iOS version is out ! For the first time ever, you'll be able to play Ragnarok on iPhone and iPad !

 

Infos will come asap, stay tuned  

Edited May 5, 2020 by vykimo
zerobrowser to XPRO

[raPalooza~ 102]

As an enthusiast of modifying the visual features from the original client, just the idea of a full open client brings tears to my eyes ;]]], so many possibilities, even creating a near complete different game.

All the best to you and this project mate. I'll be soon donating you some coffee cuz this seems like a coffee chugging project xD

\o/

[master@ragna 12]

nice to see,..will be supporting you.. 

[vykimo 68]

Update 30/12/2018 :

Specialeffects
As you probably know, all the specialeffects (excepted str effects) are hardcoded in the client.
So, a big challenge is to reproduce the look of several effects we use everyday, as good as we can.
This task is the most laborous and hard part.
For instance, you can see my version of Warp NPC vs Official. I tried to reproduce it as close as official one.

src: https://vykimo.com/zerobrowser

 

BTW I'm looking for the list of effects with ressources that's use in data/texture/effect folder. If someone have partial or complete infos, I'm here!

Edited December 30, 2018 by vykimo

[Ridley 295]

Awesome work

[vykimo 68]

Continuing in that way : 

Heals (cylinders fx)
This time, I tried to mimic heal effects. It contains several textures (cylinders, particles) and it has a lot of randomization.
You can see here the comparison between my version and official effects. I spent +20 hours on these effects.
In the gif, you can see:

• Low heal
• High heal
• Highest heal
• Offensive heal
• Logout cylinder
• Teleport effect

src: https://vykimo.com/zerobrowser

 

(Still looking for help from you, if you have infos about textures used in specialeffects it could be nice !)

Edited December 31, 2018 by vykimo

[vykimo 68]

Update 19/01/2019 :

Official skill list
Finally the updated version of skill tree landed! It was a serious lack in robrowser, we only had the old 2008~2009 skill list version.
Now, zeroBrowser supports pre-setting skills points, apply and reset. It also support multi-tab and skills description now follow official behavior (checkbox).

Official skill tree
And the major update is the very famous Skill Tree view !!
Multi-tab, prerequisites visualisation (as you can see on the screenshot), and skill level selection are now available. (You can even notice your sitting character on bottom left side corner ^^)

Hope you'll like this update that I found essential.

 

NB: After seeing screenshots, I think that it's not obvious... but these screenshots are from ZeroBrowser .

 

Edited January 19, 2019 by vykimo

[raPalooza~ 102]

@vykimo
NICE! keepup the good work! everthing is looking awesome, im very curious on how it all done, lets hope it goes full realease ;]

cant donate via paypal ;/

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Sorry

Money pools aren't available in Brazil at the moment.

 

 

[Tio Akima 74]

Very Nice <3 

[vykimo 68]

Thanks a lot, your comments give me power to continue working on it. 

@raPalooza~ I'm really sorry that you can't participate, I thought this paypal functionnality was available everywhere... I will look for another kind of crowdfunding.

However for now, I'm open if you wanna buy me a cup of coffee

Edited January 25, 2019 by vykimo

[vykimo 68]

Official Costume support
A small update but quite interesting is the costume system now supported.
2 tabs are now available (I still don't know the purpose of 3rd one 'Title') and you're able to see yourself with or without costumes.

[vykimo 68]

Renew UI : Storage
Storage UI has been updated ! Now you're able to open mini windows, resize them, make a search (unlike official, my version is not case sensitive) and sort your storage by name (fall or rise).
I tried to reproduce tricky behavior (escape key to close mini windows faster), resizing, save windows location etc... But some needs confirmation. For instance, what goes into Costume tab?.. even in my own client nothing goes inside. Maybe it's related to 'itemInfo.lua' with 'costume' field.

Hope you like how it looks!

 

NB: You can watch progress on page : https://vykimo.com/zerobrowser . And propose some features + give infos/tests.

Edited January 31, 2019 by vykimo

[vykimo 68]

Map infos
Update is related to map infos. Recently pushed by Gravity, a system that allow you to see on minimap where are located some strategic points on a map.
Navigation isn't implemented so clicking on it does nothing for now.

In addition, I added icons upon head of some key NPCs which are described in `signboardlist.lub` (you know? sometimes you see floating icons on map ^^).

[Relzz 32]

It is very nice to see someone putting the final touches to the web client finally good luck on this

[vykimo 68]

Thank you for your message.

For now the development is paused, but if you could give me the list of things that are most important in the todolist in order to prioritize tasks. I could speed up progress

[vykimo 68]

Today, 2 updates :

Indoor view and cursor update
As you can see on the screen, indoor modified view is now available.
It makes the browser game looks like more again like the official one!

Too, the cursor "not allowed" is available on non-walkable cells.

QuestLog
Huge update is related to new quest log system. The idea to develop it was given by @rapalooza on discord.

I discovered than the old quest log UI was replaced by this light version. I like this version too, and it is now available on ZeRObrowser!

Features like mob counting on the head and short description on the top right of the screen are here too.
With it, I think playing on the browser for quest farming takes a strong importance now...

 

Source: https://vykimo.com/zerobrowser

Edited March 13, 2019 by vykimo

[Manuel94 2]

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Official Costume support
A small update but quite interesting is the costume system now supported.
2 tabs are now available (I still don't know the purpose of 3rd one 'Title') and you're able to see yourself with or without costumes.

 

Just in case you still don't know what's the purpose of the 3rd tab on the equipment (alt+q) window is for the Title System.

 

Depending on the achievement (achievement system) you finish you can get a Title, then you can select whichever title you want from your list and it will appear with your name.

EJ.   [Title] PJName

 

Edited March 15, 2019 by Manuel94

[vykimo 68]

On 15/03/2019 at 9:38 PM, Manuel94 said:

 

Just in case you still don't know what's the purpose of the 3rd tab on the equipment (alt+q) window is for the Title System.

 

Depending on the achievement (achievement system) you finish you can get a Title, then you can select whichever title you want from your list and it will appear with your name.

EJ.   [Title] PJName

 

Thank you for the precision, I'll implement it when I'll start working on Achievement system !

[banhelba2019 20]

whats this about recreating the specialeffects? id pay you just to respond 

 

do you have access to effects that werent included in the data.grf? If so i guess you must have some sort of packet viewer or something if you gotta make all the textures by hand again? 

Also you didnt post this on rathena ? 

Sorry im just a potato! 

Edited April 13, 2019 by Orca

[Asheraf 123]

2 hours ago, Orca said:

whats this about recreating the specialeffects? id pay you just to respond 

 

do you have access to effects that werent included in the data.grf? If so i guess you must have some sort of packet viewer or something if you gotta make all the textures by hand again? 

Also you didnt post this on rathena ? 

Sorry im just a potato! 

The data available in the GRF files is just the resources, the actual animation is done by the client code (which isn't public), basically his project is to look into decompiled client code and try to emulate these animations in roBrowser.

[banhelba2019 20]

30 minutes ago, Asheraf said:

The data available in the GRF files is just the resources, the actual animation is done by the client code (which isn't public), basically his project is to look into decompiled client code and try to emulate these animations in roBrowser.

ok but hes actually editting the textures used in the animations from what i can see.. unless your saying the decompiled effects are just a bunch of numbers representing . . . pixels colors and positions. . . or something

Edited April 13, 2019 by Orca

[vykimo 68]

Yes that's it. I recreate effects from my client IG (not decompiled version). For example, heal is only a flat texture applied on a cylinder with opacity and animation...

So I work hard on trying to imitate official content with code. (Btw if someone knows well which ressource is associated to which hardcoded effect, it'd help me).

 

For rathena forum, they deleted my topic because of the crowdfunding part.

[banhelba2019 20]

22 minutes ago, vykimo said:

Yes that's it. I recreate effects from my client IG (not decompiled version). For example, heal is only a flat texture applied on a cylinder with opacity and animation...

So I work hard on trying to imitate official content with code. (Btw if someone knows well which ressource is associated to which hardcoded effect, it'd help me).

 

For rathena forum, they deleted my topic because of the crowdfunding part.

Sounds like a pain

[vykimo 68]

Touch-motions supported
Very usefull update, I started to interest myself to mobile specific features.
Now, Android is officially supported and here are described touch motions I implemented to navigate in game.
I tried to be as intuitive as possible, inspired by Google Map gestures :

• Zoom : Spread fingers
• Perspective : Go up/down fingers
• Rotation : Inverted fingers
• Reset : Double tap

It gives an immersive experience and prepare future updates for mobile client version.

[vykimo 68]

Mobile UI
Another interesting update, the mobile UI.
I imagined by myself a new way to play Ragnarok Online on a mobile device.
I created a joystick on the left side in order to move your character easily. On the right side, I added skills in shortcuts in a rotating circle with size increased and an auto-attack feature.
Here are the gestures presented in the gif:

• Move : Joystick on the left
• Sit down/stand up : Simple click on joystick
• Shortcuts : 4 Rotating circles with your shortcut bars content
• Auto-attack : Click on swords in order to attack or cast skill on the nearest opponent
• Context menu : Long tap on player

It increase experience on smartphone and prepare for long games on it.

Edited September 26, 2019 by vykimo