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03 / ENGINE RECREATION / OPEN SOURCE

OpenMercs.

An open source decompilation and recreation of the MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries Titanium engine.

Inside the project ↓
A 1990S ENGINE, REBUILT IN RUST.Timber Wolf · original geometry and running cycle

THE PROJECT / Public release coming soon

OpenMercs is an independent, open source decompilation and recreation of the MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries Titanium engine, written in Rust. It reads the original game's assets and plays its recovered animations, so the original machines move again.

A 1990s engine, rebuilt in Rust.

  • RUST
  • ENGINE RECREATION
  • OPEN SOURCE

Public release coming soon

LANGUAGE
Rust
SOURCE ENGINE
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries Titanium
RELEASE
Public release coming soon

Built around the details.

CAPABILITIES / 04
01

ENGINE RECREATION

Rebuilding the original engine's systems for modern hardware.

02

ORIGINAL ASSETS

Reading the game's archive formats, geometry and textures.

03

RECOVERED ANIMATION

Playing the original machines' animations from the recovered data.

04

OPEN SOURCE

The source goes public soon, for anyone who wants to preserve or study the engine.

The Timber Wolf, in motion.

The scene above uses the original game's geometry, textures and running cycle, which OpenMercs' asset readers and animation systems recovered. Only the lighting is new.

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