This project is no longer maintained. Please use the bundled modding tools instead.

• Company of Heroes 3: https://www.companyofheroes.com/en/post/company-of-heroes-3-essence-editor
• Age of Empires IV: https://support.ageofempires.com/hc/en-us/articles/5407791017108-Launching-the-Age-of-Empires-IV-Content-Editor

Instructions

• Launch EssenceEditor.exe (CoH3 or AoE4, depending on which game's .sga archives you're trying to extract)
• Choose "Continue without a mod"
• Click "File" -> "Open..." and browse to the .sga file

Essence Archive Viewer

Supported SGA versions (based on Essence.Core.dll):

• 4 ompany of Heroes 1
• 5 Dawn of War II
  • Appears to be broken
• 6 ??
• 7 Company of Heroes 2
• 8 ??
• 9 Dawn of War III
• 10 Company of Heroes 3, Age of Empires IV

This is a decompiled and altered version of the Relic Entertainment's official Archive Viewer. Rough overview of changes:

• Replaced referenced RelicCore.dll with Essence.Core.dll

  Essence.Core.dll is available in the first public pre-alpha build of Company of Heroes 3: \steamapps\common\Company of Heroes 3 - Pre-Alpha Preview\dev\mstest\TestProjects\Essence.Rpc.FunctionalTests.Anvil\Essence.Core.dll

• Change all namespace references from RelicCore.Archive to Essence.Core
• Fix various issues preventing the compilation of the decompiled project

The library providing APIs (Essence.Core.dll) to read and extract contents of SGA files is untouched.

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