Here be dragons! phoenix studio is currently in very early development. Bugs are expected and might be very common.
phoenix studio aims to implement a fully featured development environment for ZenGin applications. The ZenGin was a game engine created by Piranha Bytes for their early-2000s games Gothic and Gothic II. Currently, it contains simple command-line utilities for reading and converting data files used for Gothic and Gothic II.
If you have any questions you can open a discussion on this repo or contact me on Discord, ideally by pinging me (lmichaelis#6242) in the GMC Discord in the tools channel.
If you'd like to contribute, please read contributing first.
phoenix studio comes with some tools to inspect and convert the ZenGin's file formats. The following is a list of all tools currently available:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
zdump |
Dump information about various files. |
zmodel |
Convert MRM, MSH, MMB, MDL and MDM files as well as world meshes into the Wavefront model |
zscript |
Display, disassemble and decompile compiled Daedalus scripts (similar to objdump). |
ztex |
Convert TEX files to TGA |
zvdfs |
Extract and list contents of VDF files. |
phoenix studio is currently only tested on Linux and while Windows should be supported you might run into issues. If so, feel free to create an issue or open a merge request. You will need
- A working compiler which supports C++17, like GCC 9
- CMake 3.10 or above
- Git
To build phoenix studio from scratch, just open a terminal in a directory of your choice and run
git clone --recursive https://github.com/lmichaelis/phoenix-studio
cd phoenix
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build buildYou will find the tool binaries in build/bin and the library in build/lib.
While the source code of phoenix studio is licensed under the MIT license, the phoenix studio logo is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
