Modding Help Furious Koala 0 Assets!

So the patch has come out and I was going to check the mod i was working on would open up ect. There was a bug of course so I went to look at any changes to the assets folder when I am met with the bellow. So anyone else suddenly found all the assets have gone walk about?
So does anyone know where they may have gone or what has happened? as this no longer seems like a mod friendly game to me -.-

 

Looks like steam MIGHT have fumbled your download because i had more folders in assets then that. try to delete local files and reinstalling. I am trying that at the moment.

 

It's normal, all of your assets are packed into the file packed.pak

 

Read the patch notes...

 

Where?

 

Everything went into the "packed.pak" file.

 

I like it, Makes coping the files easier. Takes forever with a billion small files.

 

so i guess its a case of waiting and looking into how this new pak file works

 

There is an unpacker executable.

For Windows its a command line tool.

Go to the Starbound\win32 folder.

Type

Code:

asset_unpacker.exe

It will tell you

Usage: asset_unpacker.exe <assets pak path> <output folder>

So to unpack your package.

You can type...

Code:

asset_unpacker.exe ..\assets\packed.pak ..\assets\starbound_assets\

If its successful it might say:

Unpacked assets to ..\assets\starbound_assets\ in 48.675s

Using the command as above unpacks the assets to a folder called starbound_assets in the Assets folder. I put it there so I didn't break anything, you could presumably extract it straight into the assets folder, or on your desktop.

There is also a asset unpacker file in the linux folders, if you're using linux you should be able to work it out.

I'll try booting into MacOS to see how the mac version works.

Well on my Mac it seems the game crashes as soon as its run, possibly because I'm on an old version of Mac OS X.

However I have a theory...

There is a file in the Starbound.app package for the unpacker, using the terminal you should be able to access it.

Open a terminal

Type

Code:

cd /Users/andrew/library/application support/steam/steamapps/common/starbound/starbound.app/contents/macos

Type

Code:

./asset_unpacker

See if it returns something like

Usage: asset_unpacker <assets pak path> <output folder>

If it does then you can use the same command as the windows version with your slashes the other way round of course.

 

Please let me know if you found a way

 

Struggled a bit with it, but here's how I've done it:

(I'm using Windows BTW)

• Copy the asset_unpacker.exe and asset_packer.exe into another folder, which is where I'll do my modding.
• Shift+Right Click and select Open Command Window Here
• Now you'll notice that your cmd has opened in that directory.
• Type: asset_unpacker.exe (file.pak) (foldername)

In my case: "asset_unpacker.exe packed.pak test"

This extracted everything to the test folder.

For packing, simply do the same, but point the folder you want to pak and the output file name.

 

thanx guys now i might be able to find whats bugged out with my mod

 

I get a SegFault if I try running Starbound on my Mac Probably because I'm using an old version of Snow-Tiger-Lion. Try the following.

Open a terminal

Type

Code:

cd /Users/andrew/library/application support/steam/steamapps/common/starbound/starbound.app/contents/macos

Type

Code:

./asset_unpacker

See if it returns something like

Usage: asset_unpacker <assets pak path> <output folder>

If it does then you can use the same command as the windows version with your slashes the other way round of course.

 

"no such file or directory"

Maybe its useless to explain me that, Iam bad at modding.

I tried that:
~ leon$ cd /Users/leon/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/Starbound.app/Contents/MacOS

-bash: cd: /Users/leon/Library/Application: No such file or directory

Than i thought the space between Application Support/ is the mistake and tried without

~ leon$ cd /Users/leon/Library/ApplicationSupport/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/Starbound.app/Contents/MacOS

-bash: cd: /Users/leon/Library/ApplicationSupport/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/Starbound.app/Contents/MacOS: No such file or directory

 

Oh the space may mean you need to type it in quotation marks try...

Code:

cd "/Users/leon/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/Starbound.app/Contents/MacOS"

 

Just type in this:

Code:

cd /Users/leon/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/Starbound.app/Contents/MacOS

 

Somebody really needs to put out a video tutorial of this, because I've got mods that I really want updated to Furious Koala.

 

Wow that works
Can anyone find my mistake?

I got that:

Usage: ./asset_unpacker <assets pak path> <output folder>

leonsmbp:MacOS leon$ asset_unpacker.exe ../assets/packed.pak ../assets/starbound_assets/

-bash: asset_unpacker.exe: command not found

 

To run commands in your current directory you need to type ./ first. the directory . is the current directory name, so typing ./ refers to your current directory. It is to stop you from accidentally running a program in your current directory.

So try.

Code:

 ./asset_unpacker ../assets/packed.pak ../assets/starbound_assets/

 

Sorry, i have not really used that terminal before :-(

/assets/packed.pak is missing

what does that mean?
i got that:

leonrsmbp:MacOS leon$ ./asset_unpacker ../assets/packed.pak ../assets/starbound_assets/

Exception caught: AssetBackendException: Asset database ../assets/packed.pak is missing

0 asset_unpacker 0x00000001003e7475 _ZN4Star13StarExceptionC2ERKNSt3__112basic_stringIcNS1_11char_traitsIcEENS1_9allocatorIcEEEE + 277

1 asset_unpacker 0x00000001003aec83 _ZN4Star21AssetsDatabaseBackendC2ERKNS_6StringE + 259

2 asset_unpacker 0x0000000100398856 main + 86

3 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff905805fd start + 1