fheroes2 - free remake of Heroes of Might and Magic II game
engine
fheroes2 is a free implementation of Heroes of Might and
Magic II game engine, a classic turn-based strategy, with significant
improvements in the gameplay, graphics and logic (including support for
high-resolution graphics, improved AI, numerous fixes and UI
improvements).
To play the game, original resources from a demo or full version
are needed.
The following directories are searched as data root:
- /usr/share/games/fheroes2
- The system-wide location that can be accessed by all users.
- FHEROES2_DATA
- This environment variable can contain a path to a directory with game
files.
- Current working
directory
- $HOME/.local/share/fheroes2
- Per-user data directory. This path can be overridden by XDG_DATA_HOME
environment variable.
The game resources which searched in these directories:
- data/*.agg
- Original assets (required).
- files/data/*.h2d
- Additional non-original assets from fheroes2 project.
- files/lang/*.mo
- Translations from fheroes2 project.
- files/soundfonts/*
- Additional SoundFont files for MIDI synthesizer. sf2 and sf3 formats are
supported.
- maps/*
-
Single scenarios and campaigns (h2c, hxc, mp2, mx2 files).
- music/*
- CD audio music tracks which are ripped in mp3, ogg or flac formats. The
tracks should be named as "homm2_XX.ext" or
"TrackXX.ext" where XX is a track number and ext is an
extension. Numeration starts from "01" for the
"homm2_" prefix and from "02" for the
"Track" prefix.
- anim/*.smk
or anim2/*.smk or heroes2/anim/*.smk
- Video files.
- $HOME/.config/fheroes2
- This directory contains per-user configuration files. fheroes2.cfg
is for game options and fheroes2.key is for hotkeys. This path can
be overridden by the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.