Open source manual for Might & Magic: Heroes 5.5 mod.
Written on Ruby with Shoes 3.3.7 framework
Latest version: 1.4 with MMH55 RC13 database
main.rb - application code
changes.txt - tracker of release changes.
text - includes text packages for different languages (currently English and Russian)
pics - images only
settings->skillwheel.db - MMH55 game information
settings->app_settings.db - keeps contants related to the app behaiour (resolution, default language)
settings->fonts - includes app fonts
code->Tooltip - popup functionality
code->readskills - used for reading text files
code->GlobalVars - file sources, static arrays and vars
These are all the files the manual is built from.
Author: dredknight
- Download and install it the proper Linux/Windowx distribution from here
- Open Shoes cobler and install Zip 2.0.2 gem as it is required to extract the manual text.
- Clone the repo on your pc
- Launch main.rb using the framework
- Go to ToE /data and get data.pak and texts.pak
- Extract data.pak into folder called source/data
- Extract texts.pack into folder called source/texts
- Download the new version of the mod
- Install it and take the following files from DATA dir - MMH55-Data.pak, MMH55-Frame.pak, MMH55-HDTex.pak, MMH55-Index.pak, MMH55-Settings.pak. Extract them into source/data folder and overwrite all files.
- Take MMH55-Texts-EN.pak, extract it to source/texts and overwrite all the files.
- Use Notepad++ Python Script extention to run to_utf.py for all files in source/texts. to be continued...