EA have restored and launched the complete supply code for a number of vintage Command & Conquer video games beneath the GPL license, in a purple letter day for sequence modders. The video games in query are the unique Command & Conquer (aka Tiberian Daybreak), Command & Conquer: Crimson Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals, plus the latter’s Zero Hour growth. That is loads of refurbishable technique sport to get your head round.
All that is reportedly the results of EA commissioning one explicit modder, neighborhood determine Luke “CCHyper” Feenan, to revive the previous C&C supply codes, as described at fearful size on Reddit. When you’re not accustomed to him, he was concerned in bringing the C&C Final Assortment to Steam again in March 2024. RPS Tank Driver-For-Rent Steve Hogarty known as that “the therapy these genre-defining video games deserve”.
You could find the supply code for Tiberian Daybreak on this Github web page. The Crimson Alert code is over right here, whereas Renegade is right here, and Generals/Zero Hour is thisaway.
They’re additionally throwing customized mapmakers a bag of bones by including Steam Workshop help for Renegade, Generals, and Zero Hour, along with Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars, Kane’s Wrath, Crimson Alert 3 – plus the Rebellion growth – and Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight. All the mission editor and world builder instruments for these video games have been up to date so you’ll be able to publish maps on to the Workshop.
“While you subscribe to an merchandise on the Steam Workshop (by way of the Shopper or webpage), the video games will now pull that content material down if you subsequent launch the sport and the maps shall be displayed within the singleplayer/multiplayer map choice menus,” explains Feenan within the Reddit submit.
Lastly, EA have launched a C&C Modding Assist pack, containing the supply Xml, Schema, Script, Shader and Map recordsdata for all of the video games that use authentic sequence developer Westwood’s previous SAGE engine.
This looks like a tremendous time to revisit Discipline Marshall At Giant Jeremy Peel’s piece on the creation of the primary Command & Conquer, that includes chinwags with co-creator Joe Bostic.
