About RED+

RED+ is RED, the Red Faction level editor, with Direct3D 11 rendering and many fixes and additions, most of them to lighting. It is an unofficial, fan-made tool.

RED+ is in private testing. Builds are handed to testers as a development package, with a quick start for testers.

What RED+ is built on

• RED+ runs the editor from your own Red Faction install and loads its additions into it. RED.exe is not part of the package.
• It is built on Alpine Faction 1.4.0, which is based on Dash Faction.
• Parts of its lighting code are adapted from Glacier.
• A file it inherits from Alpine Faction contains structure definitions from rf-reversed, and its readers for VFX and V3M mesh files implement the formats documented there.

Licences

• RED+ itself is Copyright (c) 2026 RomekRF, all rights reserved. That covers the code of RED+, its images, data and documents, and the d3d8to11 translation layer. You may use the RED+ package, and redistribute it whole and unmodified, free of charge, for use with a lawfully obtained copy of Red Faction. Any other use needs the copyright holder's written permission. It comes without any warranty.
• Alpine Faction and Dash Faction. The files RED+ inherits from them, including the ones RED+ has changed, are under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, and so are a few RED+ files that NOTICE.txt names. The RED+ terms do not limit your rights under that licence.
• Glacier. The parts of the lighting code adapted from it are under the MIT License.
• Third-party components. d3d8to9 and subhook are under BSD-2-Clause, toml++, dds.h and Win32++ under MIT, stb under MIT or public domain, zlib and minizip under the zlib licence, and SHA-1 in C++ is public domain. The Wine Direct3D 8 headers are under LGPL-2.1-or-later.
• Red Faction material. RedPlusFaction.vpp holds eight meshes from Red Faction, by way of Alpine Faction, and a sun icon adapted from the Red Faction Ultor logo. The package also has fonts and sounds that carry notices of their own.

Source code

• Alpine Faction and Dash Faction are published by their authors. The package is based on Alpine Faction 1.4.0.
• The changes RED+ makes to those files, and the RED+ files under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, are available from RomekRF on request, at no charge, through the contact given where you downloaded RED+.
• The rest of RED+ is not open source. d3d8to11.dll is RED+'s own and contains no Mozilla Public License code. d3d8to9.dll is third-party software under the BSD-2-Clause licence.

Trademark

Red Faction is a trademark of THQ Nordic GmbH. RED+ is an unofficial, fan-made tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by THQ Nordic or Volition. It requires a lawfully obtained copy of Red Faction.

The about folder

The about folder in the RED+ package holds the full texts: