Resource Generation

Resources like images for civilizations and researches, and language strings for most things, are generated automatically from the HD Edition source files. They're generated using the script in tools/makeResources.php. To run it, enter the following in the command line:

composer run-script make-resources /path/to/SteamApps/common/Age2HD/

You need to have a recent version of HD Edition installed (4.6+, probably, but maybe an earlier version works too). You also need Node.js to render the images.

The make-resources script uses the Openage convert library. It extracts data from the empires2_x2_p1.dat file, and renders images using the slp-render command line tool.