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Today I'm proud to represent my new project: UOExt.

Current version is 0.1.0 RC1.

Let me explain what it is..

This tool devepoling for shard owners, alloing them to ship their code to client, run it and communicate with client and protocol.
Right now it can: Automatically update, download plugins (controls from server), hook protocol and allow plugins to react to messages, meking transparently unpacking, decoding, resending etc... All this stuff.

It's arcitecture directed to minimize impact of heavy plugins, so it's created on proxy basis...

UOExt starts new thread in client's address space, allow you to hook some client APIs, amd communicate with proxy like normal thread communication, then it modifies connect API to force it to connect to local proxy, and connects to server pathing all protocol through self.

This project is open source, but due to plugin arcitecture you can write your own close-source pugins.

There is one small problem... Right now it bounds to RunUO(not fully, but close). So, if anyone with good knowledge of Spehre will write it support - it will be greate.

What it potentially (read it like "I know how it could be done, but I havn't got any time ") can do:
Hot-line statics and map patching (all changes will show to client immideatly).
Auto-connection tool (I konw that someone already do it, he changes login screen with custom controls and graphics, skips caracter creation screens, etc)
Many other improvements, that I couldn't imagine ))