SFTtech / SFTtech/openage

Age of Empires 1: Definitive Edition new features support

Open
#1,288 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

area: assets good first issue lang: python
Dominant language
Python
Stars
14.4k
Forks
1.3k
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

Required skills: Python

Difficulty: Medium

At the moment, the converter has basic support for the Age of Empires 1: Definitive Edition (DE1) release. The modpack generator reuses the converter for the original 1998 release (AoE1 + Rise of Rome). New features from DE1, e.g. walkable farms, still need to be supported. A lot of the new features were taken over from AoC, so you can probably reuse functionality from its conversion processor.

Additionally, not all of DE1's media formats (terrain textures, UI, particle effects, etc.) are exported yet. Adding those to the converter would be optional for now. The data conversion is much more important.

Further reading:

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with openage/convert/processor/conversion/de1/processor.py and compare it with the RoR processor, then read the converter architecture and workflow documents. Identify which DE1 data features, such as walkable farms, are missing and whether AoC conversion functionality can be reused. Done means the important DE1 data conversion works; additional media formats are optional.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
game-dev, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.