I can't quite believe it either. Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals (inc. Zero Hour) have their code officially open sourced.
// Assumption: Things with a KINDOF_STRUCTURE flag can never be built from
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// force the tree control to redraw, it seems to have problems updating
// the plus signs, lame ass Microsoft
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HeirarchyView.cpp
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locale.cpp
// We need to be able to grab w3d's from a localization dir, since Germany hates exploding people units.
W3DFileSystem.cpp
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Weird, I had the same reaction to this and the news that Ron DeSantis said the Tate brothers aren’t welcome in Florida. “That’s nice but you’re still a massive piece of shit.”
Played hundreds of hours of Generals and Zero Hour, I tried playing it again a year ago but it wasn’t working well in windows 11. Making it open source might bring this great game back.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t mean that much, if anything OpenRA is ahead of what the original engine was. The only issue is saw with OpenRA’s engine was the odd unit pathing every now and then, so perhaps that could be one thing for them to look at (not that it was consistently great in C&C)
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There’s a thread on Reddit showcasing some hilarious Code Comments within the Generals Codebase: https://old.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izpkmh/funny_generals_source_code_comments/
Examples:
Best computer game theme ever
These waffles! They suck!
Die Waffen, legt an!
Could breath new life into the modding scene with this alone. Look at what a map editor did for the Warcraft franchise.
I was obsessed with Generals in 2003. It would be very damaging to my productivity if there was a Mac version.
Kim’s Hell March https://youtu.be/EWGIXSxBlpQ
ChinaEA has been generous.I almost feel dirty, liking something Electronic Arts does.
Generals being open sourced is massively goated. I can’t believe EA finally made a decision I actually like.
From EA? Interesting
EA? Why, what happened? Is it truly the end of time?!
No but seriously, does someone know what the motivation is?
They put an old Westwood dev in charge of the franchise a few years ago and basically just let him do anything he wants.
Reminds me of the recent news that the Pebble Smartwatch founder asked Google for the Pebble OS source code, and Google actually released it.
What’s happening with this timeline??
Weird, I had the same reaction to this and the news that Ron DeSantis said the Tate brothers aren’t welcome in Florida. “That’s nice but you’re still a massive piece of shit.”
Interestingly, ra2 and tiberium sun are missing… Hmmm. Hype intensifies.
Oh man. Generals was the last game that me and some friends played on lan together. Many many hours of fun. Sadly those days are long gone.
“My legs hurt”
China will grow larger
“my tank is full.”
Can I have some shoes?
“I will work!”
You change your mind often.
“Ak47s for everybody”
Now, I can get behind this.
Played hundreds of hours of Generals and Zero Hour, I tried playing it again a year ago but it wasn’t working well in windows 11. Making it open source might bring this great game back.
they just added it to steam a few months back. runs fine in win 11 with (i think) a config edit for higher resolutions.
I wonder what this will mean for OpenRA…
If videos and musics are also changed to creative commons than OpenRA can officially integrate them without that CD detection step…
edit: typo
I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t mean that much, if anything OpenRA is ahead of what the original engine was. The only issue is saw with OpenRA’s engine was the odd unit pathing every now and then, so perhaps that could be one thing for them to look at (not that it was consistently great in C&C)
That is fair, I could also see them not looking at the source to avoid being influenced and keeping OpenRA their thing.
It was pretty iffy in the original too
Open RA isn’t doing a reverse engineering project, so they’ll probably just keep working on it. They are doing a full gameplay modernization.