This is not an engine in itself, this is just a term that can be used as a name for the "2D" RTS games Westwood Studios developed. They never officially announced, named or released this engine.
It was just added and named internally for purposes of ModDB by a member of the community.
About OpenRA with 10 comments by Milanium on Feb 24th, 2013
A frequently asked question is why there is no Tiberian Sun or Red Alert 2 mod. The short answer: the engine does not support it yet. The long answer: you can already try and convert the file formats to add infantry and buildings. So what is needed for native support without conversions:
This is currently not supported, but not as far fetched as one might think. We recently stumpled upon CnCMaps.Net which turned out to be re-factored OpenRA code to render high-quality map previews.
The file formats for infantry/buildings changed since Tiberian Sun, but it is already reverse engineered. In fact the SHP Viewer is built upon OpenRA and supports them.
The biggest addition to the engine by Westwood since Tiberian Sun is Voxel support. All vehicles are in fact 3D models although the games still had a static camera and the look and feel was still very much like that of sprite-only era. Paul started hacking on OpenRA again and presented some experimental voxel support a few days ago.
Tiberian Sun ships a bunch of partly broken C&C/RA1 units in voxel form. Westwood probably used them for early engine tests as well.
"Kirov reporting!"
Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell...
OpenRAOpen-Source reimplementation of Westwood’s Command & Conquer: Red Alert game engine, updated to use the hardware acceleration of modern video cards using...
Highest Rated (3 agree) 10/10
i love this engine!just noobs matter the graphics
P.S
i sorry EA kill you
Aug 1 2011, 6:47am by EITY10
still much respect for these awesome games can not say this for many games
Agree! Can't tell how many years i wasted on C&C.
Westwood was awesome!
This is definitely one of the best "engines" designed for RTS games. Especially the later versions (used for example in Red Alert 2) have many great features such as lighting and ambient sound system.
This is not called the Westwood 2D engine >_>
DuneII only shares the Westwood library, but it was not until C&C DOS that the first C&C RTS engine started, the code and class pattern can be seen from C&C DOS until RA2: Yuri's Revenge, Generals is where this engine departed.
The last game i see with the base Westwood library with somewhat existence is C&C3.
Dune II, albeit not CNC canon, also greatly shares ancestral heritage with this engine
this engine is the best engine ever. i loved playing all older cnc games before EA took over.
yes oldskool but still cool
Actually it's a 3D engine. THose one who work with it, know that is't a simple 3D
*Actually is 2.5D lol sounds wired but it is!
So, my mod is a part of this. Hi guys :D