This fan-made patch for Serious Sam Classics includes a lot of modern enhancements that aren't present in the open-source release, nor in the official Steam patches since 2014.
This super project gathers everything together under a single solution for proper development.
CoreLib- library with core functionality that's used by other projects.DedicatedServer- dedicated server application for launching your own classic servers.EnginePatches- library with dynamic patches for Serious Engine functions that can be selectively applied to specific modules.ExamplePlugin- example of how user plugins can be made for Serious Sam Classics Patch.GameExecutable- executable file for playing the game that includes many quality-of-life improvements.Mod- libraries of a special mod that fixes more intricate issues and expands gameplay possibilities.PatchedGui- patched EngineGUI library from the engine that allows to integrate new features into different tools.Plugins- projects with various plugins that come with Serious Sam Classics Patch.Shaders- patched Shaders library with certain fixes for SKA models and shaders used by them.WorldEditor- patched Serious Editor application that works on 64-bit systems.Builds- directory for assembling final builds of Serious Sam Classics Patch for every supported game version.Builds/TSE107/Mods/ClassicsPatchMod- shell of a special mod that includes resources necessary for properly running it.
Docs- up-to-date contents of the wiki for any specific release.Extras- third-party dependencies that the projects utilize.Includes- Serious Engine 1 SDK that includes static libraries and engine headers for different game versions.Localization- translations of Serious Sam Classics Patch contents to different languages.Properties- common properties for use in project files.Resources- resources in text & binary formats that are included into final builds.
Original source code of DedicatedServer, GameExecutable, Mod, PatchedGui, Shaders and WorldEditor projects is taken from Serious Engine 1.10.
Before building the code, make sure to load in all of the submodules. Use git submodule update --init --recursive command to load files for all projects.
To compile the code, you'll need to use a compiler from Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.
Full guide: https://github.com/DreamyCecil/SE1-ModSDK#building
After the project solution is built for the Release_TSE107 configuration, you can apply the patch to your build of TSE 1.07 one level above by using the DeployToBin.bat script (e.g. to C:/SeriousSam if this repository resides is in C:/SeriousSam/SuperProject).
This project is licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file).
Some of the code included with the SDK may not be licensed under the GNU GPL v2:
- zlib (located in
Extras/zlib) by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler