# TurokEX: rebuilding PC Turok on the Kex engine

> TurokEX reimplements the PC version of Turok on the Kex engine, with the game's actors, enemy AI, weapons, pickups, areas and HUD written as AngelScript classes. Its KPFGen converter reads the original CARTFILE.DAT and Turok.exe and packs their textures, fonts, sounds, models, levels and particle effects into a game.kpf archive. The engine side covers OpenGL rendering, collision and physics, OpenAL sound, a console, ENet networking and an SDL2 platform layer.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-10
- Original resource: <https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX/blob/90589b4bd3c35e79ea42572e4c89dc335c5cfbfe/tools/KPFGen/src/main.c>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/turokex-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/turokex-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/turokex-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The original PC Turok CARTFILE.DAT and Turok.exe are required for KPFGen to build game.kpf.
- **Prerequisites:** Microsoft Visual Studio solutions are provided for the engine and KPFGen, plus an Xcode project for the engine; SDL2, AngelScript and ENet sources and OpenAL headers and prebuilt libraries are bundled.
- **Limits:** KPFGen runs on Windows only; its non-Windows entry point is an #error TODO stub.
- **License:** Source files carry GNU General Public License version 2 or later headers; there is no licence file at the repository root.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX/blob/90589b4bd3c35e79ea42572e4c89dc335c5cfbfe/tools/KPFGen/src/main.c>
2. <https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX/blob/90589b4bd3c35e79ea42572e4c89dc335c5cfbfe/tools/KPFGen/src/textures.c>
3. <https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX/blob/90589b4bd3c35e79ea42572e4c89dc335c5cfbfe/kex2/turok/scripts/turokgame/components/weapons/turokWeaponChronoScepter.txt>
4. <https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX/blob/90589b4bd3c35e79ea42572e4c89dc335c5cfbfe/kex2/turok/framework/system.cpp>

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