CE1 (CryEngine 1)

Project aims to bring CryEngine 1 to modern systems, improve overall stability, add QoL changes while maintaining compatibility with Far Cry.

Key changes

• Using Premake5 for project files generation
• Converted code to build with Visual Studio 2022 and GCC
• Enabled C++17, removed legacy stuff
• Sandbox Editor runs on latest MFC
• Multiple buffer overflows found and fixed with ASAN
• SDL2 for handling window and input
• Code file structure cleanup
• crysound replaced with FMOD, since it's the same thing
• Bink & DivX replaced with FFMpeg
• Updated Cg to 3.1

Compatibilty changes

• CrySystem - HTTPDownloader.cpp: commented 309-310 lines
• CryNetwork - Disabled ubisoft nerwork code

Future work TODO

• Fix original bugs
• Bring multi-threading
• Optimize loading times
• Merge some bits of code from more recent CryEngine versions
• Support for importing FBX to use as static and skinned objects
• Replace FMOD 3.74 with OpenAL
• Replace nvTriStrip with meshoptimizer
• Replace nvDXT with nvtt
• Rewrite renderers and get rid of obsolete hardware support
• Remove x86 assembly code
• Remove custom data structures like TArray, list2, etc and replace with eastl or e2ds (Eq2 Engine Data Structures)
• Cross platform compiling and running

Legal notes

This project is intended for educational and non-commercial purposes only.

Based on source code published 24 june 2023. https://archive.org/details/far-cry-1.34-complete