EA hand Command & Conquer modders the source code for Tiberian Dawn, Renegade, Red Alert and Generals

Also, Steam Workshop enactment for a clump of classical C&Cs

EA person restored and released the afloat root codification for respective antique Command & Conquer games nether the General Public License, successful a reddish missive time for bid modders. The games successful question are the archetypal Command & Conquer (aka Tiberian Dawn), Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals, positive the latter's Zero Hour expansion. That's a batch of refurbishable strategy crippled to get your caput around.

All this is reportedly the effect of EA commissioning 1 peculiar modder, assemblage fig Luke "CCHyper" Feenan, to reconstruct the aged C&C root codes, arsenic described astatine fearful magnitude connected Reddit. If you're not acquainted with him, helium was progressive successful bringing the C&C Ultimate Collection to Steam backmost successful March 2024. RPS Tank Driver-For-Hire Steve Hogarty called that "the attraction these genre-defining games deserve".

You tin find the root codification for Tiberian Dawn on this Github page. The Red Alert codification is over here, portion Renegade is here, and Generals/Zero Hour is thisaway.

They're besides throwing customized mapmakers a container of bones by adding Steam Workshop enactment for Renegade, Generals, and Zero Hour, unneurotic with Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars, Kane's Wrath, Red Alert 3 - positive the Uprising enlargement - and Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight. All of the ngo exertion and satellite builder tools for these games person been updated truthful you tin people maps straight to the Workshop.

"When you subscribe to an point connected the Steam Workshop (via the Client oregon webpage), the games volition present propulsion that contented down erstwhile you adjacent motorboat the crippled and the maps volition beryllium displayed successful the singleplayer/multiplayer representation enactment menus," explains Feenan successful the Reddit post.

Finally, EA person released a C&C Modding Support pack, containing the root Xml, Schema, Script, Shader and Map files for each the games that usage archetypal bid developer Westwood's aged SAGE engine.

This feels similar a good clip to revisit Field Marshall At Large Jeremy Peel's piece connected the instauration of the archetypal Command & Conquer, featuring chinwags with co-creator Joe Bostic.