I love open source! OpenRW joins the ranks of game engines like OpenMW (Morrowind), OpenRA (Command & Conquer, Red Alert) CorsixTH (Theme Hospital), OpenXcom (X-COM: UFO Defense) and many more.
It's early days for the project, but I have high hopes that it will join the ranks of many other playable and open source game engines.
Like other the other open source game engines it will require a legal copy of the games data files to run and it's completely unofficial.
Hopefully more developers interested in having it on Linux will join in on the effort, would be pretty awesome to have it on Linux. I remember when it first came to PC and my little unit couldn't handle it!
Find OpenRW on github. It's licensed under the GPL. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
It's early days for the project, but I have high hopes that it will join the ranks of many other playable and open source game engines.
Like other the other open source game engines it will require a legal copy of the games data files to run and it's completely unofficial.
Hopefully more developers interested in having it on Linux will join in on the effort, would be pretty awesome to have it on Linux. I remember when it first came to PC and my little unit couldn't handle it!
Find OpenRW on github. It's licensed under the GPL. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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wvstolzing May 20, 2016
Not so successful here... (openSUSE TW, nvidia 364.19)
The engine was built only when I turned off the option to build the test suite as well. (cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF)
To get the data files, I installed the original cds into a folder through my windows xp virtual machine. I also copied the contents of the audio cd (the 'Play' disc) into the audio subfolder. To set environment variables for X11 (xfce) under openSUSE can be tricky -- after a couple of false starts I learnt that I had to add the option to export OPENRW_GAME_PATH into ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc
Anyhow -- here's the result. The game starts, and the intro sequence plays just fine (graphics, music, everything works except motion blur):
As soon as the intro ends, though, a screen-sized 'minimap' flashes for a second, and then the game hangs on this screen:
I can still escape into the pause menu, but can't do anything there.
I'll see whether I'll get different results on my laptop, later on.
EDIT: So, being an idiot, I forgot to select the TEST option from the main menu. This is what it results in:
I can get inside & drive the cars, but can't descend to the lower levels of the car park. To see even this much is pretty nice, though.
Last edited by wvstolzing on 20 May 2016 at 3:50 pm UTC
The engine was built only when I turned off the option to build the test suite as well. (cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF)
To get the data files, I installed the original cds into a folder through my windows xp virtual machine. I also copied the contents of the audio cd (the 'Play' disc) into the audio subfolder. To set environment variables for X11 (xfce) under openSUSE can be tricky -- after a couple of false starts I learnt that I had to add the option to export OPENRW_GAME_PATH into ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc
Anyhow -- here's the result. The game starts, and the intro sequence plays just fine (graphics, music, everything works except motion blur):
As soon as the intro ends, though, a screen-sized 'minimap' flashes for a second, and then the game hangs on this screen:
I can still escape into the pause menu, but can't do anything there.
I'll see whether I'll get different results on my laptop, later on.
EDIT: So, being an idiot, I forgot to select the TEST option from the main menu. This is what it results in:
I can get inside & drive the cars, but can't descend to the lower levels of the car park. To see even this much is pretty nice, though.
Last edited by wvstolzing on 20 May 2016 at 3:50 pm UTC
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getting this compile error on Linux Mint 17.3 64bit
[ 1%] Performing update step for 'inih-repository'
Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
[ 2%] No configure step for 'inih-repository'
[ 3%] No build step for 'inih-repository'
[ 4%] No install step for 'inih-repository'
[ 5%] Completed 'inih-repository'
[ 9%] Built target inih-repository
[ 10%] Built target inih
[ 11%] Building CXX object rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/source/gl/TextureData.cpp.o
In file included from /home/chuck/Desktop/openrw-master/rwlib/source/gl/TextureData.cpp:1:0:
/home/chuck/Desktop/openrw-master/rwlib/source/gl/TextureData.hpp:3:23: fatal error: glm/glm.hpp: No such file or directory
#include <glm/glm.hpp>
^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/source/gl/TextureData.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
[ 1%] Performing update step for 'inih-repository'
Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
[ 2%] No configure step for 'inih-repository'
[ 3%] No build step for 'inih-repository'
[ 4%] No install step for 'inih-repository'
[ 5%] Completed 'inih-repository'
[ 9%] Built target inih-repository
[ 10%] Built target inih
[ 11%] Building CXX object rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/source/gl/TextureData.cpp.o
In file included from /home/chuck/Desktop/openrw-master/rwlib/source/gl/TextureData.cpp:1:0:
/home/chuck/Desktop/openrw-master/rwlib/source/gl/TextureData.hpp:3:23: fatal error: glm/glm.hpp: No such file or directory
#include <glm/glm.hpp>
^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/source/gl/TextureData.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Quoting: Wurmphlegmgetting this compile error on Linux Mint 17.3 64bit
[ 1%] Performing update step for 'inih-repository'
Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
[ 2%] No configure step for 'inih-repository'
[ 3%] No build step for 'inih-repository'
[ 4%] No install step for 'inih-repository'
[ 5%] Completed 'inih-repository'
[ 9%] Built target inih-repository
[ 10%] Built target inih
[ 11%] Building CXX object rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/source/gl/TextureData.cpp.o
In file included from /home/chuck/Desktop/openrw-master/rwlib/source/gl/TextureData.cpp:1:0:
/home/chuck/Desktop/openrw-master/rwlib/source/gl/TextureData.hpp:3:23: fatal error: glm/glm.hpp: No such file or directory
#include <glm/glm.hpp>
^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/source/gl/TextureData.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [rwlib/CMakeFiles/rwlib.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
fixed it by installing libglm-dev
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1mHfoksd1Z May 20, 2016
It's exciting news but I would be even more happy if it were a completely new game not just a clone... I mean, yeah, it would be nice to play it on Linux natively, but I'm sure that most of us won't play it for too long, only long enough to satisfy our nostalgia... If people would direct all this hard work into creating something new, and free (because this one requires us to buy the original) then it would also be much popular and more valuable.
I think that having this open source engine is great, and the same goes for OpenMW... but I really hope that one day we will see forks that bring new, original and open source data files as well... Unfortunately, I really doubt this will happen :(
There aren't many open-source games out there, and most of them are copies of Windows games... which is kinda sad. The best open-source game that it's also original, is, in my opinion, 0 A.D. which did start as a remake of AOE 1 but then became much more than that to the point that they don't really have much in common anymore.
There's also a difference between remakes and copies... If this engine would offer better mechanics and graphics and be more mod-friendly, then of course, I would be much happier. That would actually bring something new.
Now I'm sorry if I sounded too harsh, I'm actually grateful for their work, but I thought that someone should really make a critical comment between the sea of the positive ones.
I wrote this hoping to determine you to make an even better job, I didn't do it in bad faith.
Last edited by 1mHfoksd1Z on 20 May 2016 at 5:27 pm UTC
I think that having this open source engine is great, and the same goes for OpenMW... but I really hope that one day we will see forks that bring new, original and open source data files as well... Unfortunately, I really doubt this will happen :(
There aren't many open-source games out there, and most of them are copies of Windows games... which is kinda sad. The best open-source game that it's also original, is, in my opinion, 0 A.D. which did start as a remake of AOE 1 but then became much more than that to the point that they don't really have much in common anymore.
There's also a difference between remakes and copies... If this engine would offer better mechanics and graphics and be more mod-friendly, then of course, I would be much happier. That would actually bring something new.
Now I'm sorry if I sounded too harsh, I'm actually grateful for their work, but I thought that someone should really make a critical comment between the sea of the positive ones.
I wrote this hoping to determine you to make an even better job, I didn't do it in bad faith.
Last edited by 1mHfoksd1Z on 20 May 2016 at 5:27 pm UTC
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aristorias May 20, 2016
Do EULAs of modern games still allow such things?
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TacoDeBoss May 20, 2016
Quoting: wvstolzingNot so successful here... (openSUSE TW, nvidia 364.19)
As soon as the intro ends, though, a screen-sized 'minimap' flashes for a second, and then the game hangs on this screen:
I can still escape into the pause menu, but can't do anything there.
I'll see whether I'll get different results on my laptop, later on.
I can get inside & drive the cars, but can't descend to the lower levels of the car park. To see even this much is pretty nice, though.
The game hangs on the end of the beginning cutscene on Intel/Nvidia hardware only.
Runs flawless (but slow, obviously) on my AMD A8-7410 APU running fglrx 15.3 on my laptop.
Last edited by TacoDeBoss on 20 May 2016 at 6:55 pm UTC
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TacoDeBoss May 20, 2016
The map issue on Nvidia hardware can be fixed by switching to Nouveau/Mesa.
Also, there's an in-game debug menu accessed with the M key.
Also, there's an in-game debug menu accessed with the M key.
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wvstolzing May 20, 2016
Quoting: TacoDeBossRuns flawless (but slow, obviously) on my AMD A8-7410 APU running fglrx 15.3 on my laptop.
That looks great; and thanks for having already reported it on github.
I wish I had AMD hardware to try it on; but I'm limited to intel integrated & nvidia.
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One of the flaws of the early GTA games were the loading breaks when entering another district of the city. I wonder if they could manage to get rid of them. It should be no problem to hold all the data in memory with today's hardware.
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TacoDeBoss May 20, 2016
Quoting: jf33One of the flaws of the early GTA games were the loading breaks when entering another district of the city. I wonder if they could manage to get rid of them. It should be no problem to hold all the data in memory with today's hardware.
Already done. There's no loading in this version.
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