Modding Help Extracting and editing .modpak files

I'm trying to tweak things around for a closed group server, but need to fix a file located inside a .modpak file. Although I can find what I need to edit via wordpad, if I try to actually save an edited .modpak it will corrupt it, preventing starbound from launching.

Does anybody know how to extract it for editing, or even to edit it directly without corrupting it?

 

SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32\unpack_assets.bat has an example of how to use asset_unpacker.exe on .pak files (Open it with a text editor)

 

That would help a lot more if I could read it, but it's all garbled up in a text editor.

 

@Echo off
echo Unpacking ..\assets\packed.pak into ..\assets\unpacked\
echo This may take a long time.
start /wait /min .\asset_unpacker.exe ..\assets\packed.pak ..\assets\unpacked
echo Done.
pause

 

Okay, sorry to double post, but I've found it out after a bit of personal research (also, I noticed you changed it to .bat when posting this), and figured out how to do it.

Code:

cd /D D:\

If you have installed Starbound into a seperate drive, like I did, you wanna do this. the /D has to be a D, but the D:\ can be replaced by whatever drive letter it's under.

Once you achieve that, it's a simple matter of using cd WITHOUT /D to navigate into your Starbound/Mods folder. If you get lost along the way, the "dir" command will tell you what's in the current folder.
Once there, the following code is what I used:

Code:

..\win32\asset_unpacker.exe "[mod folder]\[modname].modpak" "[new folder name]

The contents will be extracted to whatever you listed as the desired folder name, after which it's easy to edit them.
Once finished editing, you can then use the following code:

Code:

..\win32\asset_packer.exe "[new folder name]" "[mod folder]\[modname.modpak]

Of course, this is using the same variables as the unpack code, so just swap around where the differing parts are. To be safe, you might want to delete the old .modpak first, I'm not sure if it's necessary or not though.

 

dude not everyone uses steam -.-

 

Its a steam game... Good job.

And you bumped this thread to say THAT?

 

Doing just:

Code:

d:

also works the same as:

Code:

cd /D D:\

 

wow just because some people don't use steam because they don't chose to your just going to be a ass to them well there goes more of my respect for the world -.-

 

More along the lines of "they didn't pay for it".

 

your the dumbest motherfucker i have met i never sad all of them pirate the game dipstick just because a site is third party site does not mean it's for pirating you idiot a third party site is along the line of amazon wallmart.com and other sites like that
you need to get your head out of your ass like really dude the longer you have your head in your ass the dumber your going to get

 

You call me dumb, yet use no punctuation. The irony...

 

dude it's like 12:00 something where i live i'm sure you just woke up and all but i have not been to sleep yet so of course i missed all of the punctuation and frankly i have noticed there is not really a need for it because everyone understands everything i'm saying when i don't use it so what is the point in even having it if there is no need for it

 

Because it makes it easier for everyone else to read it?

 

Wow, guys. Sometimes you gotta know when to just stop.

Closing this thread