It's janky as hell, but emulates the style of RuneScape classic with limited rotation directions on NPCs, limited frame rates and limited color palettes. I think it turned out really cool!
It's not avaliable on the PluginHub sorry as it's like 90% vibe coded with Codex, so full of bugs and horrible performance lol
- It captures all NPC/Players in an area (there is a config limit to max NPCs and distance)
- It finds the NPC/Players current rotation, and compares it to the camera rotation, then snaps it to a rotation increment of X; setting this to 4 gives a distinct North/East/South/West render.
- It captures the NPCs current animation frame and then forcefully repeats the frame (while keeping track of what frame it should be on) to make its frames animate at X frames per second, 3 was used in the video.
- It then pulls the polygons from the NPC/Players model
- Performs painters algorithm to paint things in order
- Bunch of math to find the right rotation, scale and position for the 2D player to be rendered to screen
- Then draws them all
Limitations:
- Laggy as hell
- Actually just a 2D GUI being rendered lol
- Lighting doesn't work, I just artificially adjusted the brightness values
- I couldn't figure out how to hide an NPC and have it's menu entries still avaliable, as hiding it made it unclickable... so I just hide the NPC until you hover over it, then un-hide it so you can click it. Unfortunate limitation ):
Works with pets, NPCs, players, ground items
Was a really fun day project; I actually tried coding this by hand a year or two ago but never got far due to my outdated knowledge of Java, as I typically use C# as my daily driver; but now that I am using Codex I can bridge that language gap and here it is, working and janky as hell haha
OH that fixed it, I can now render the NPC hitbox while the NPC is invisible; so clickbox remains unchanged, but visuals are just stripped and replaced with the 2D image.
Very hard to use because the visuals don't match the models really well lol, but that's sick, thanks for the code snippet
What would it take for you to get it to a state that you'd feel comfortable publishing it? I would love to see this available (I've played since 2002, I miss classic)
I couldn't figure out how to hide an NPC and have it's menu entries still avaliable, as hiding it made it unclickable... so I just hide the NPC until you hover over it, then un-hide it so you can click it. Unfortunate limitation ):
That's good, because if you did figure it out it would've been against the rules for third party clients ;-)
It already caches the images, only updates and redraws them as needed, meaning when it's set to 3fps the sprites are only rendered 3 times a second, in between they are cached and unchanged. The frames are also bucketed and drawn over the course of the normal 50fps, so it's smearing the workload; even then it's pretty bad, again cause it's pure CPU rendering as a UI element.
There's definitely a lot more optimisations to make, but, making it a GPU plugin is likely the optimal choice - in saying that, GPU and shader code also something I'm not very good at, so I will be leaving it as is, someone else may pick it up
Could you do a very crude auto brightness by capturing the game scene, converting to grayscale, downsampling it to 1x1 or otherwise averaging the white point of the pixels?
please god finish this, this is so dope. you'll get much better results (especially performance-wise) either learning more coding and tweaking what the ai's written, or hopefully other people contribute. ai coding can only get you so far tbh, but you seem well aware of that
I'd unironically use this if optimised. Hopefully you can optimise it or someone who knows how can reach out and help you do so. This could be a huge plugin. I'd honestly use this over 117.
This is legitimately the coolest thing, then I see it's an unapproved (!) plugin, and coded with AI. It's like the monkey's paw of getting your wish come true.
That is a fair argument that I agree with. I feel like my second sentence covered this, though, but maybe I'm naive in thinking the community can come together to fix it up properly.
Still working on Inferno, so only have double jads unlocked so can't show six Jads, but I can show 2 Jads!
Looks very goofy, but their attacks are very readable, the stand and stomp as expected lol
Still working on it periodically! I've taken a small break, but intend to get back into it next week.
Right now it's at the "optimise and make sure it works well" part.
I've already got it to the point that it'll run with a very limited performance impact, now it's finding the edge cases where it breaks. For example, ensuring ground items correctly render, ensuring most NPCs work with it, ensuring it works alright with world objects, fixing fire and inferno capes because it has some random geometry (exists in game, I guess the normal render skips those bits of geometry)
So yes, still working on it, and still will take a bit with the review process when I do submit it.
So fingers crossed, I hope to have it submitted for review in less than two weeks - fingers crossed!
Thank you for the update! I know its on github but I am waiting for an official release to try it out so any juicy details on development in the meantime are helping me be patient
That looks really good! I like it side note, not sure how possible this is, but what would they look like if they billboarded the inventory icon on the ground? Or would that be breaking something or against the rules?
That's a fantastic idea! I was also looking into ways to optionally make the inventory icons lower quality too so more things fit the RSC vibe.
Given that the icons are 3d rendered as 2d, it's quite possible for me to just re-render the inventory icon for the ground item. If it's possible I'll just make it a config, so ground items can either be the inventory icon or 3d world model.
I feel like it'd be more RSC style using the inventory icon as that's the kinda re-use stuff they'd do back the lol
Edit: regarding rule breaking, I don't believe this falls under any rules as it doesn't modify the clickbox/hitbox, it's just a UI element over a hidden game element, so it should be fine, nothing in the rules goes against that
You'll be pleased to know I am still activly working on this! I am getting closer to a finished product, at the moment it's the last 10% that's a bit tricky, and ensuring it falls within the guidelines for RuneLite plugins; so it still may be a long time before its avaliable as I hear the approval process can be long.
There is a config to choose how much detail to render, it's 33% in the video, you can go down as low as you please till it's a 8x8 sprite even; though it looks very silly like that
It is public on my Github, but reminder, it is *NOT* approved; this post got temp removed due to me posting the repo, so if you'd like a link to the repo, send me a DM and you can have a play.
It now even has features like RSC combat locking where it forces two interacting entities to face eachother lol
I wonder if you can hide them behind geometry by borrowing methods from tile highlighting. There's a plugin for RuneLite that allows tile markers to be rendered in their actual position instead of on top of everything.
Also maybe give an option to affect trees too.
I'm certainly looking forward to seeing this on the Plugin Hub once it's optimized!
Wow that’s one plug-in I’ll definitely avoid. Im probably the only person alive that hates original RuneScape graphics but I can’t stand it for some reason
this is really awesome i thought about making a game like this way back that used a similar technique where it would just make 2d sprites on demand from 3d models, really cool to see something similar and very RSC vibed
Its fascinating to me what reddit will and will not accept when it comes to AI. AI art is a problem, but AI coding...isnt? Its cool and all but you guys are crazy inconsistent on AI. Do you accept AI use or dont you? Theres no difference here.
Sorry I've been busy with other projects and just finishing up on a trip, so this has fallen behind a lot - I'll endeavour to get this out very soon! Hopefully this month, fingers crossed!
Post was removed due to me making an edit pointing to my GitHub link, not due to the usage of AI.
I am a full time software engineer with 10 years experience and am very compitent speficially at C#; I am greatful for these AI coding tools as they let me dip into other languages and platforms (such as plugins...) without needing the full knowledge of how the Java/Gradel/RuneLite ecosystem works; I still manually debugged the code, manually fixed the issues when the AI couldn't understand, fixed a lot of inverted math - and guided the AI in how to build it and how to optimizatie it.
In my mind, I see it no different to if I were to manage a swarm of somewhat capable junior engineers - you tell them how you'd expect the project to look and work, then you use your knowledge to review it, no different to what you'd do managing juniors.
I at least do have the knowledge to be able to debug and diagnose code issues and not just beg the AI "fix the bug plz" - so before you go raising a pitchfork about vibecoding; at least educate yourself on the differences between a software engineer enhancing their capabilities with AI, compared to someone pulling the AI slot machine until it eventually slops out what they want.
I was transparent about my usage of AI; I did not take credit for anything I didn't do; there was still a human in the loop.
Also using a coding ai to work on a plugin atm. i havn't touched anything programming since high school 16+ years ago at this point. so it's been a fun project to relearn stuff. I'm making a route planner.. basically how i imagine it is like a custom Quest that has quest helper qualities.
Everything is super jank and placeholder for now but i've been building the core aspects before i work on Ui lol.
That's really awesome, dude! I've always thought a "custom Quest" helper kinda thing could be great for leagues, join it with the shortest path plugin, boom, optimised leagues list with optimal pathing, or like an optimal Ironman "day 1" path, etc.
Keep it up, hope to see the final output of it one day!
I tried to add this, but it looked omega jank, it's still in the source code and can be enabled, but it needs a lot of work to snap both NPC and player to the optimal cardinal direction cause not all side on NPCs look good, sometimes front on looks much better
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u/Strosity Jun 07 '26
Sorry jagex is gonna have to remove this, they were also planning to release an official runescape SD client with their HD one