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.
  • Ardyssian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    13 hours ago

    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:

        // Assumption: Things with a KINDOF_STRUCTURE flag can never be built from 
    // a factory (ProductionUpdateInterface), because the building can't move
    // out of the factory. When we do our Starcraft port and have flying Terran
    // buildings, we'll have to change this ;-)
    // Remember: To ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME. 
    Player.cpp

        // HERE WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR AN IDIOT TEST:
  // REJECT SIMULATION NODES THAT ARE OFF SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
    // HERE WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR AN IDIOT TEST:
  // REJECT SIMULATION NODES THAT ARE OFF SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
  W3DTerrainVisual.cpp

      //
  // force the tree control to redraw, it seems to have problems updating
  // the plus signs, lame ass Microsoft
 //
  HeirarchyView.cpp

      ; String is returned by const for a reason.  Bad things will happen 
  ; if you modify it.  You have been warned.
  locale.cpp

      // We need to be able to grab w3d's from a localization dir, since Germany hates exploding people units.
  W3DFileSystem.cpp

      // I can't take it any more.  Let the record show that I think the UpgradeMux multiple inheritence is CRAP.
getAutoHealBehaviorModuleData()->m_upgradeMuxData.muxDataProcessUpgradeRemoval(getObject());
  AutoHealBahaviour.h
  • weker01@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    16 hours ago

    EA? Why, what happened? Is it truly the end of time?!

    No but seriously, does someone know what the motivation is?

  • TheLowestStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    17 hours ago

    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.”

  • dicksteele@lemm.eeEnglish
    49·
    22 hours ago

    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.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      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.

    • erin@social.sidh.bzh
      13·
      21 hours ago

      If videos and musics are also changed to creative commons than OpenRA can officially integrate them without that CD detection step…

      edit: typo

    • xploit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      21 hours ago

      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)

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        21 hours ago

        That is fair, I could also see them not looking at the source to avoid being influenced and keeping OpenRA their thing.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        21 hours ago

        The only issue is saw with OpenRA’s engine was the odd unit pathing every now and then

        It was pretty iffy in the original too

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    22 hours ago

    Could breath new life into the modding scene with this alone. Look at what a map editor did for the Warcraft franchise.