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fheroes2 is a recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.
https://ihhub.github.io/fheroes2/
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Where's "CHOOSE.SMK"? #5872

Closed vanfanel closed 2 years ago

vanfanel commented 2 years ago

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Hi there,

I just built the latest version of FHeroes2 on Debian 11 GNU/Linux, and when starting a new campaign I get "Required video files for campaign selection window are missing", etc on a pop-up window.

Looking at the code, it seems that the game is looking for CHOOSE.SMK, which is a file I don't have on my Heroes 2 Gold (GOG) installation.

Where does that file come from, please?

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zenseii commented 2 years ago

Hi @vanfanel.

This file comes from the ANIM folder of the Heroes 2 gog installation. fheroes2 comes with a script that should find all these files in your installation called extract_homm2_resources.sh.

This folder can also be found manually by either mounting the heroes2.gog file as a disc image, potentially just rename to heroes2.bin, or if you grab the heroes 2 gold windows edition from GOGs website where you downloaded it from then the ANIM folder will be unpacked in the installation directory.

Don't hesitate to ask should you encounter any problems.

vanfanel commented 2 years ago

Found it, thank you @zenseii !

My GOG install didn't have the ANIM folder, for some reason... So got it elsewhere.