Azeroth Survivors Overhaul

Recipes, installer and converters that upgrade the Windows build of Azeroth Survivors (the survivor-like built on World of Warcraft art) with higher-resolution models and textures built from your own WoW install, plus new races, zones, bosses and gear.

Bring your own game. This repository contains code, recipes (hashes and instructions) and documentation only. It ships no Blizzard assets, no community HD files, no game executable and no patched executable or archives.

What it does

• HD from your own WoW Retail / Forever install. Converters read your installed WoW client and build model and texture overlays for the game, so the result is made on your machine. Each package is optional and installed separately:
  • skinned character and creature models (tools/skinned-converter)
  • rigid items and gear (tools/asset-coverage, tools/retail-rigid-preview, tools/retail-item-equip)
  • character, face, hair and armor tools (tools/characters)
  • world terrain/doodad overlays and spell effects (tools/world, tools/spells)
  • a renderer pass (sharpening, rim light, fog) (tools/renderer-upgrade)
• New content: new playable races (Goblin first, tools/new-races), new zones, bosses and gear sets (tools/content).
• A transactional installer (tools/installer): plan first, verified backups, a receipt for every change, and one-command rollback. Saves and config are hashed before and after and must not change.

Screenshots

These are frames from automated runs of local preview builds (1280x720). They show the result of the packages above.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 and Python 3 (tested on 3.14). The installer uses the standard library only.
• A legitimate copy of Azeroth Survivors for Windows (the folder that holds AzerothSurvivors.exe). Tested against v0.103.x.
• For HD packages: your own World of Warcraft client install (the build named in each recipe) and the offline CASC reader library, which you build or supply yourself (the installer checks its SHA-256 before loading it).
• Community HD packages need files you obtain yourself; the installer verifies every byte against the recipe.

Install and roll back

The CascLib reader is built from the included source (needs Visual Studio Build Tools and CMake): powershell tools/casc-offline/build.ps1, then pass the resulting DLL as --casc-dll. See tools/casc-offline/README.md.

cd tools/installer
python as_installer.py detect   --game-root <your game folder> --client-root <your WoW folder>
python as_installer.py recipes
python as_installer.py plan     --game-root <game> --client-root <wow> --casc-dll <CascLib.dll>   # changes nothing
python as_installer.py apply    --game-root <game> --client-root <wow> --casc-dll <CascLib.dll> --yes
python as_installer.py status   --game-root <game>
python as_installer.py rollback --game-root <game> --yes

1. Close the game. Run plan and read every blocker and hint.
2. apply builds in a work folder, verifies, backs up every file it touches, then installs in one transaction.
3. rollback --yes restores the backups; it refuses if a file changed since (so it never overwrites your own edits).

See tools/installer/README.md and tools/installer/RECIPES.md for the full command list and safety model. Developer scripts under tools/* expect a workspace folder (game files at the root, tools/ beside them, outputs in analysis/ and previews/); the installer is the supported entry point.

Credits and legal

• Azeroth Survivors is the game by Aethus (online version: wow.aethus.pl; source repo: OutThisLife/azeroth-survivors-re). This project is unofficial and not affiliated with its author.
• wenilla: the engine/save naming used by the game (wenilla-rogue).
• VanillaHD community HD pack: used only as an optional, user-supplied input. It carries no license, so it is not included or redistributed here; users obtain it themselves.
• World of Warcraft and its art are the property of Blizzard Entertainment. Screenshots show game rendering from local lab runs; no Blizzard assets are included. Third-party code notices: tools/distribution/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.
• Code and documentation here: MIT, copyright finalpantasy (see LICENSE). The license covers only this repository's code, recipes and docs. Game files, World of Warcraft assets and community packs are NOT covered by it and are NOT included.

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