Falltergeist

Opensource crossplatform Fallout 2™ engine writen in C++ and SDL. https://falltergeist.org/

Dependencies

• SDL2
• SDL2_mixer
• SDL2_image
• GLEW
• GLM
• Zlib

Compilation

CMake options:

• USE_CLANG_TIDY - if set then clang-tidy checks are enabled

Linux

cmake . && make

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install  build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libglew-dev libglm-dev zlib1g-dev

cmake . && make

Windows (Visual Studio x64)

You could add dependencies manually but it is easier to use Conan.

First, set up your Conan profile to match your compiler or let conan autodetect your settings (conan profile new vs --detect and use --profile=vs when running conan install). Visual Studio 2019 profile should look like this:

[settings]
os=Windows
os_build=Windows
arch=x86_64
arch_build=x86_64
compiler=Visual Studio
compiler.version=16
build_type=Debug

If using VS2017 or building on Release then use: compiler.version=15, or build_type=Release respectively.

To be able to download conan SDL2 packages, further configure your conan instance by introducing a new remote:

conan remote add bincrafters https://bincrafters.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/conan/public-conan

Then open 'Developer PowerShell for Visual Studio' and execute the following commands:

mkdir build
cd build
conan install .. --build missing
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64
devenv /build Debug falltergeist.sln

Or open and build the solution in Visual Studio instead of running the devenv command. If using VS2017 or building on Release then use: “Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64”, or devenv /build Debug respectively.

Running

Put master.dat and critter.dat files into the falltergeist data directory, that is

• ~/.local/share/falltergeist/ or /usr/local/share/falltergeist (for global installs) on Linux,
• ~/Library/Application Support/falltergeist on OS X,
• %APPDATA%/falltergeist on Windows,

or mount CD-ROM with original game, then run ./falltergeist on *nix or .\bin\falltergeist.exe on Windows.

Development roadmap

This is a pretty highlevel roadmap to get to a playable game. The idea behind it is to step by step get closer to the full game.

• Worldmap support
• Elevators
• NPCs
• Combat AI
• Full scripting support
• Skills