Required Directory Structure for Content and Development Tools

The original developers of City of Heroes utilized a rigid directory structure to organize their development and production content. Most tools developed "in house" rely on this directory structure for operation. It breaks down as follows:

• C:\game - this is the root directory of all tools, source, assets, etc... it MUST reside at the root of C:\ unless modifications are made to the tools
  • \data - the data directory houses all content that is ready for use by the client and/or servers
    • \bin
    • \character_library
    • \fonts
    • \fx
    • \geobin
    • \menu
    • \object_library
    • \player_library
    • \scenes - this houses various Scene files
    • \scripts.loc - this houses various .LUA scripts and .ZONEVENT files
    • \server
    • \shaders
    • \sound
    • \texts - this houses all written content for the game such as dialog, labels, texture words .TEXWORD, menus, powers, map and mission .SPEC, etc..
    • \texture_library - this houses the .Texture files which are converted DDS files and has a sister library under /src
    • \tricks
  • \src - the src directory houses all content that is in its working format and not usable by the client and/or servers
    • \texture_library - this houses the .tga files in development that will be converted to .Texture files for its sister library under /data
  • \catalog - houses html exports of game data for QA review as part of the Catalog process
  • \tools - houses various scripts and tools to assist in content creation or general development and administration