NAME

       fheroes2 - free remake of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

SYNOPSIS

       fheroes2

DESCRIPTION

       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.

GAME DATA PATHS

       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.

ENVIRONMENT

       FHEROES2_DATA
              See the section GAME DATA PATHS above.

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.

                                             May 2022                                 fheroes2(6)