genie

A Python module to access Genie engine (Age of Empires etc) files.

How to test

• Install Python, construct and pyglet_.
• Run python browse_slp.py path/to/your/AOE/directory
• This automatically loads graphics.drs.
• You can now enter ls to see all available files, play ID to play a WAV file, show ID to display a SLP file and, if you're feeling lucky, showanim ID to display an animated SLP file.

Resources

Kudos to the people who wrote documentation about the proprietary DRS and SLP formats and the Age of Empires SLP files:

• http://alexander-jenkins.co.uk/blog/?p=9
• http://www.digitization.org/wiki/index.php/SLP
• http://artho.com/age/files/drs.html
• http://aoe.heavengames.com/downsnew/dlfiles/misc/slplist.zip
• http://www.ferazelhosting.net/~bryce/re.html (dead)
• http://www.boekabart.net/aoe2wide/hg/slp.txt (or http://old.zaynar.co.uk/misc2/slp.txt)
• http://www.cryer.co.uk/file-types/p/pal.htm

Thank you very much!

License

As stated in the LICENSE file, this Python package is BSD-licensed (2-clause).

.. _python: http://python.org .. _construct: http://construct.readthedocs.org .. _pyglet: http://pyglet.org