New client for the Community Patch project

[ShaDoOoW]

Hello, I am near final release of the Community Patch 1.71 and due to the latest issue with gamespy I think that this is a good opportunity to distribute a new client with my project.

1) Can I use the NWNCX source for this purpose?
2) Is anyone willing to help with that?

I have a little different vision of how such client should look like. And the current NWNCX doesnt met my standarts. I am willing to distribute NWNCX as it is if you allow me that but if it would be possible I think that some adjustions should be made:
1) detract the plugin framework. While this is great for a development and developers, not so much for a players. And I am trying to make a new standard - client enhancements like open-faced helmets, custom weapon vfxes, custom beams doesnt need to be divided into several plugins, thats a bit standard imo
This custom client would then be cut off from ongoing NWNX development. Developers would be point to the plugin architecture and original sources to make adjustments.
2) possibly custom exe that runs and hooks original nwmain.exe 1.69
3) possibly no DLL or maximally one if it cannot work without it.
4) using only the less agressive method of hooking in order to avoid false AV alarms or blocking by firewall. I dont know which method is that - maybe the current NWNCX already solved this problem and is able to run under any AV,FW,winOS without security warnings.

Ok, so hows this community stands with project like this?
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[virusman]

I don't really think this is a good reason to fragment the community and the code by doing another fork of NWNCX.
All of these things, if made with sufficient quality, can be part of the official NWNCX distro.
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[ShaDoOoW]

[virusman]

Making a special modified 'unofficial' public distro is exactly what a fork is. It just makes supporting the codebase more difficult. As I said, I have nothing against these modifications, and they can be included in the main codebase without having to do a separate project for it. If someone can come up with better patcher or loader or plugin/module API or whatever, I'd be glad to include that.
And sure, you can distribute NWNCX with anything.
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