Getting Started

Building OpenRW

There are currently no official builds of OpenRW available, we recommend building from source. See Building for instructions on how to do this for your operating system. However, Some users have already packaged OpenRW for certain operating systems.

Running

rwgame

This is the game binary. Before running the game a config file is needed, see Configuration

• Options:
  • -w n, -h n sets initial window size
  • --newgame starts a new game automatically
• Controls:
  • WASD: Move
  • Shift: Sprint
  • Space: Jump
  • F: Enter/Exit Vehicle
  • Mouse Wheel: Cycle weapons
  • Mouse 1: Fire Weapon
  • For more debug controls see Development

rwviewer

This is a Qt tool for opening the game data. It currently supports looking at objects and their models, and a primitive world viewer. It needs more work to be useful for looking inside archives and viewing textures.

Help & support

If you need help running openrw please check the subreddit r/openrw or the IRC channel #openrw on irc.libera.chat. Do not post support issues on GitHub as they will be closed.

Contributing or Reporting Issues

If you would like to contribute features or fixes to OpenRW or report issues, please read the contributing page for more information.