AOEMods.Essence
C# library and tools for working with Age of Empire 4's Essence engine (.sga, .rrtex, .rrgeom, .rgd currently) (by aoemods)
essence-archive-viewer
Patched version of Company of Heroes 2 Archive Viewer (official tool provided by Relic Entertainment) to work with Company of Heroes 3 and Age of Empires IV SGAs. (by Janne252)
| AOEMods.Essence | essence-archive-viewer | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2 | |
| 29 | 26 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.0 | 0.0 | |
| 6 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AOEMods.Essence
Posts with mentions or reviews of AOEMods.Essence.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-29.
-
AOE 4 original portraits and logos pictures
Don't know if it still works but : https://github.com/aoemods/AOEMods.Essence
- Dear modders, what are the strenghts and limitations of the editor?
-
Patch 10267 attribute changes from game files
I made a library / program that deals with some of AOE4's formats including the game data format (.rgd). https://github.com/aoemods/AOEMods.Essence
-
Tickrate, Commands and Animation Canceling
Judging by this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/qfci86/aoe4_quick_sheet_all_landmarks_all_maps_all_techs/hi0pvjd/, attack animation duration info is accessible from the game datafiles. Is this modding tool up-to-date and does it allow reading the datafiles: https://github.com/aoemods/AOEMods.Essence? (I don't have AoE IV, so I can't test it myself.)
-
Model extraction support for AOEMods.Essence
I added initial mesh extraction support to https://github.com/aoemods/AOEMods.Essence (binaries for a visual editor and CLI can be downloaded here). Right now it can convert .rrgeom files to .obj files, although only vertex positions and faces are used right now (more to come soon). Shoutout to the people on this forum / thread for figuring out some of these things.
- Ingame Icons and images as files ?
essence-archive-viewer
Posts with mentions or reviews of essence-archive-viewer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-23.
-
Ingame Icons and images as files ?
For the SGA files there is that : https://github.com/Janne252/essence-archive-viewer/releases
-
AoE4 Modding Discord
AOE4 does not have official modding support yet but we already have some tools to read some of the files. The archives can be opened with https://github.com/Janne252/essence-archive-viewer and RGD files which contains the game data such as unit statistics can be viewed with https://github.com/RobinKa/RGDReader/ which I created today (see https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/q144mt/game_files_does_anyone_know_how_to_convertread/ for some more conversation).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AOEMods.Essence and essence-archive-viewer you can also consider the following projects:
RGDReader - C# library, command line interface too and graphical user interface for reading Age of Empire 4 files such as rgd and rrtex
Stoats-Stuff - The Several "Unwanted Libarrys"
aoe4_stats - Analytics tool for the RTS game Age of Empire 4.
XtoX - Convert any data type from x to x with ease!
TheLastTime - C# .NET 5 Blazor WebAssembly Progressive Web Application that tracks when was the last time you did something
Cinchoo ETL - ETL framework for .NET (Parser / Writer for CSV, Flat, Xml, JSON, Key-Value, Parquet, Yaml, Avro formatted files)
dodge-mod - Ages of Empires 4 mod - Dodge enemies for 100 rounds - Written in TypeScript