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)