Recoil Engine

Recoil Engine

The actively-developed engine powering Beyond All Reason and other modern titles — a continuation and significant extension of the original Spring RTS engine. Documentation below is imported verbatim from the official RecoilEngine wiki on GitHub.

Recoil Engine on GitHubAll categories

Building the Engine

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• Recoil:Build Environment (Docker)
• Recoil:Building on MSVC
• Recoil:Building the engine without Docker
• Recoil:MINGW64 Setup (Windows x64)
• Recoil:Windows build environment, step by step

Lua Scripting

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• Recoil:Lua Handle
• Recoil:Lua SyncedControl
• Recoil:Lua UnsyncedCtrl
• Recoil:Lua UnsyncedRead
• Recoil:Lua VBO and VAO
• Recoil:Lua annotations convention

Configuration

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• Recoil:Engine Configuration Overview
• Recoil:Engine Settings Config File
• Recoil:Mod Rules
• Recoil:Move Definitions

Engine Internals

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• Recoil:ClientGameState and ServerGameState state dumps
• Recoil:Determinism in Engine

Reference

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• Recoil:Console Commands
• Recoil:Known games

Development & Releases

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• Recoil:Pre-release testing and release checklist

Profiling & Debugging

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• Recoil:Profiling Linux Builds with Perf
• Recoil:Tracy Profiling