xray-16 VS SFML

Since you are on linux, someone remade the engine and there is a native port of it https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16 It works with luxtorpeda if you have the game on steam or know how to add a non Steam game and give it the id of the game then choose luxtorpeda as a compatibility tool

Yes. It's a based on a fork from Open X-ray.

So knowing that I can play Stalker COP with the use of OpenXRay/xray-16, I started searching for Anomaly engine source code.

Here, Xray 1.6, no need for scammy links

In the future it may be worth checking out OpenXray too - https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16

Take a look at SFML. Very easy to get started, and quite capable.

https://www.sfml-dev.org/

As for windows, you'd probably be alright looking into SFML, you can see their Getting Started tutorial for how to install it in your IDE of choice.

SFML (zlib/C++) https://github.com/SFML/SFML

SDL or SFML for drawing. They are both gfx libs but are used differently so read about what you thing suits you better.

Make a game with https://www.sfml-dev.org/ (I used SFML Rust to start learning Rust)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(CMakeSFMLProject LANGUAGES CXX) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(SFML GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git GIT_TAG 2.6.0) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SFML) add_executable(CMakeSFMLProject src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE sfml-graphics) target_compile_features(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE cxx_std_17)