BEbelthesar·Mar 4, 2025
These were released almost instantly when the game was released: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection
In Salty game dev comments, easier mods are in Command and Conquer's source codeelectronicarts
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Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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14 sourcesThe 1995 source code was effectively released when they open-sourced the Remastered collection 5 years ago. The remastered collection was simply a wrapper to make them Windows-compatible via DLLs (basically).
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
In EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other gamesIDK why but it ironically brings me joy to find typos in old code. Maybe a reminder that we're all human (well back when code was written by humans /s).
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
In EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other gamesThis is what you're looking for right?
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
In EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other gamesIt was released as freeware back when by EA originally, which is what openRA relies on. Later the source was released under GPL[1] during the CNC remastered collection from EA.
[1]https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
In OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon DeluxeI'm not talking about OpenRA, but the source released by Electronic Arts under GPLv3 with the Remastered Collection: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection
It doesn't include the full engine, but as far as I'm aware this is the full source for parts specific to Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn, as the main motivation for releasing the source was to facilitate modding. I haven't looked very deep though, so do correct me if I'm wrong.
In Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?If anyone curious about some historic examples here is the pathfinding code from the C&C/Red Alert games
>The path algorithm works by following a LOS path to the target. If it collides with an impassable spot, it uses an Edge following routine to get around it. The edge follower moves along the edge in a clockwise or counter clockwise fashion until finding the destination spot. The destination is determined by Find_Path. It is the first passable that can be reached (so it will handle the doughnut case, where there is a passable in the center of an unreachable area).
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
(on a side note the comments are incredibly detailed, considering this is from 1993-95)
In How to smooth and spread A* paths for an RTSThey licensed it under the GPL3 so it's free software. You can also get it also from EA's GitHub:
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection
They only released the source to the game logic, not the full engine.
And of course, the game data is not free.
In OpenRA: Open-source RTS game engine for games such as Command and ConquerOne thing that helped me to get some insides in c++ was the old Command and Conquer source code from the 90's https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection Jason Turner has multiple videos where he takes this old code and transforms it to more modern cpp code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oee7gje-XRc
In Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?Command and Conquer source code is in GPL violation
1 points · Open discussionTIL the dogs in Red Alert were attached to invisible bullets when they attacked
4 points · Open discussionThe dogs in Red Alert were attached to invisible bullets when they attacked
4 points · Open discussionThey have uploaded the pathfinding related code for Red Alert [1] and Tiberian Sun.
1. https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
In EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn & Red Alert Released Under GPL3
45 points · Open discussion