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Heroes of Might and Magic 5.5 manual

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

Repository files

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

Build instructions

1. Download and install it the proper Linux/Windowx distribution from here
2. Open Shoes cobler and install Zip 2.0.2 gem as it is required to extract the manual text.
3. Clone the repo on your pc
4. Launch main.rb using the framework

Update manual database

1. Go to ToE /data and get data.pak and texts.pak
2. Extract data.pak into folder called source/data
3. Extract texts.pack into folder called source/texts
4. Download the new version of the mod
5. 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.
6. Take MMH55-Texts-EN.pak, extract it to source/texts and overwrite all the files.
7. Use Notepad++ Python Script extention to run to_utf.py for all files in source/texts. to be continued...