2. Development Environment

• Open VS Code, then click on File > Open folder.
• Open the Content folder found inside the Hades folder.
• Once done, you should see something like this :
• Click on the Extensions icon .
• Install the Lua extension by sumneko
• Once installed, click on the gear icon next to uninstall and click Extension Settings.
• Go on the Workspace tab, and in the search bar at the top type library (add a space before). Scroll down until you find Lua > Workspace Library. There you need to add two items : Content/Scripts/ and Mods/.
• When you're done, it should look like this :
• Then search for preload and change Lua > Workspace: Preload File Size from 500 to 3000.
• Install the extension Autodesk Interactive Debugger by jschmidt42 (we won't use it to debug, it's the only extension to provide language support for sjson).
• Press CTRL+P and type help. Click on Helptext.en.sjson in Game\Text\en.
• This file is used as a translation table between internal names and in-game display names, and should be kept open at all times as you will search through it frequently.

3. Game files & Searching things