About
Dagor Engine is Gaijin Entertainment's official open-source release of the engine that powers War Thunder, including a full build toolkit and sample projects: an offline scene-viewer sample ("East District") and a multiplayer sample ("Outer Space"). Building it requires Windows 10 (x64), 16 GB of RAM, and 200 GB of disk space; a setup script downloads and configures the full compiler/SDK toolchain (MSVC, Clang, a DirectX 12 Agility SDK, Windows SDKs, and others) automatically. The project's open-source roadmap states more parts of the engine and its tools will be released over time.
Getting started
Getting it running requires cloning the repository, running a setup script that downloads and installs the required compiler toolchain, then downloading additional prebuilt asset archives before building the engine tools, samples, and shaders from source. Prebuilt binaries and ready-to-run sample viewers, including the East District offline scene viewer and the Outer Space multiplayer sample, are also published as separate downloads for those who don't want to build from source.
Additional notes
- Documentation
- The project's auto-generated API documentation is explicitly noted as incomplete and still being expanded.