TiberianDawnHD VS spring

All the art and sound assets come from a legally purchased copy of C&C, specifically the "C&C Remastered Collection" on Steam or Origin. OpenRA uses the assets from that, so it's all legal! Stratagus does the same thing with Warcraft assets.

https://github.com/OpenRA/TiberianDawnHD#asset-installation

There's a remaster version of OpenRA TD, not for RA yet tho: https://github.com/OpenRA/TiberianDawnHD/releases/tag/release-20230225

But wait, there’s more! This release brings major behind-the-scenes changes towards supporting the C&C Remastered Collection assets. This support is still incomplete, but works well enough that we are today also releasing a development preview of “Tiberian Dawn HD”. It is a separate release and can be downloaded here. This preview is multiplayer-compatible with the main 20230225 release, but performance, memory usage, and loading times have not been optimized, and do not reflect the expected final requirements. The C&C Remastered Collection must be installed through Steam or Origin, and the project README provides installation instructions for macOS and Linux.

This release brings major behind-the-scenes changes towards supporting the C&C Remastered Collection assets. This support is still incomplete, but works well enough that we are today also releasing a development preview of “Tiberian Dawn HD”. It is a separate release and can be downloaded here.

There's work being done to support the remastered assets in OpenRA: https://github.com/pchote/TiberianDawnHD

Just download, install and play. You need to have the Remastered Collection in Origin or Steam and it will get the assets from there. Enjoy. https://github.com/pchote/TiberianDawnHD/releases/tag/playtest-20221203

Recoil (previously called Spring) - https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring

If you want to develop the engine https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring, checkout GitHub wiki of that repository which contains compile instructions with docker, without and for MSVC setup.

Many current BAR developers are old BA devs. Many old BA players are current BAR players. Then also the engine fork happened (Recoil) (https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring) for similar reason as above, and Recoil+BAR currently receive the most active development, with other Spring RTS games like Zero-K also migrating to Recoil.

All is about providing a correct start script for each player: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/blob/BAR105/doc/StartScriptFormat.txt

Yes, it's using continuously developed fork (https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring) of the Spring RTS engine.

Well, my personal preference is for Zero-K/Spring, because I actually like micro :

http://zero-k.info/

But BAR/Spring seems like it would fit you better (it's also the closest of them to TA, which is otherwise a bit old these days) :

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

(BAR used to stand for Balanced Annihilation Reloaded, while Zero-K used to be called Complete Annihilation.)

Still a number of active projects where the game (or variations of it) are being played. Check out Beyond All Reason