is it possible to make otclient on web browser?
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MagicWall
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(Client) JavaScript/TypeScript (or WebAssembly + JavaScript/TypeScript) + Canvas + WebSocket + WebAPI + knowledge of binary data in a web browser + (optional) HTML + CSS + web framework.
(Server) WebSocket support in TFS (or WebSocket proxy in web account maker/microservice).
(Server) WebSocket support in TFS (or WebSocket proxy in web account maker/microservice).
Or you could go down the route of making your own tibia like game, on your own protocol, and your own server etc (I would still recommend something like socket.IO for networking if you take this route) ...
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Yes. WebAssembly is not magic; it has a lot of limitations. You only have access to Web APIs there, so you'd have to implement a WebGL/WebGPU renderer and use something like File System API for file access (or load everything from the server via HTTP, but still quite a lot of work). And there's also client-server communication - as mentioned above, browsers don't allow you to use raw TCP sockets (there's a draft of this feature though), so you'd have to implement WebSockets instead (on both the client side and server side).
And I guess many C/C++ libs that OTClient uses would not compile to WASM just like that.
Forby
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It is possible and I spent a long time writing a NodeJS gameserver with HTML5 client using a custom protocol over websockets. You can try it out here: Forby HTML5 Open Tibia Client (https://inconcessus.nl/). The source code for it is open but it doesn't work properly out of the box (Inconcessus - Overview (https://github.com/Inconcessus)). At some point I'll invest some time to make a better release.
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amazing job but im looknig 100% otclient in webThis is very smooth. Nice job man!!
