Tutorial How to successfully pack and unpack .pak files

I am linux. share the command you are using?

 

Aye, thanks :/
but why not trying the BoTW ?
(Simply search for Minerscool on Steam so we can plan "the meeting " )

 

Thanks helped a whole lot

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_unpacker" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\assets\packed.pak" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\modassets"

worked fine for me , I had to fix a fiew things for the new updates also I made a file on my starbound dirrectory called modassets

 

Uh... I have a problem: The command window was replaced with Windows Powershell (windows 10), and the packing and unpacking do not work the same way. I tried doin it the same way, and:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_packer" "C:\Program File
s (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\mininglaseraddon" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\mini
nglaseraddon.pak"

At line:1 char:78
+ ... set_packer" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\ ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unexpected token '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\mininglaseraddon"' in expression or
statement.
At line:1 char:153
+ ... laseraddon" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\ ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unexpected token '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\mininglaseraddon.pak"' in expression or
statement.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: ) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken

I don't know how to create buttons, so

 

Actually I have found a link to a to a good tutorial on starbounder.org http://starbounder.org/Modding:Modding_Basics that helped me unpack the assets.

 

I fixed it. I made a batch file set up the same way as I would the command window and it works now.

 

When I type it in it just says "The system cannot find the path specified" How do I fix this?

 

Floran found thisss extremely helpful. Floran thanksss you.

 

Having the same issue, even if I use a batch file that runs the command, it says "the filename of directory is incorrect" and almost instantly closes out.

I used:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_unpacker.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\assets\packed.pak" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\UnpackedAssets"

 

I blame PowerShell.

 

It is not really PowerShell that is is the problem. Yes, powershell does not have the capabilities of packing and unpacking as far as I know. But that is not really the problem that is being discussed (as far as I know). The problem is that cmd.exe (or also known as the Command Prompt, found via searching in C:\WINDOWS\System32) is having problems packing and unpacking, when it apparently used to be able to. Maybe an update broke the asset packer and unpacker. I tried using an older version of the asset unpacker (because I back up just about anything I feel may be important, not the point) and it works just fine, granted it takes forever.

 

Can someone give me an example of packing a folder in the new code?

 

I just tested opening cmd via a shortcut on desktop, and typing all the paths out entirely works.

Try using this;

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_packer.exe" "<entire path to what you are packing>" "<entire path to where you want the content to be packed to>" (do NOT include brackets)

Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_packer.exe" "C:\Program Fies (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\test" "C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\mods\test.pak"

 

Tried to put the assets unpacker in the terminal and now its gone.

 

im on mac btw

 

Using the unpacker on Windows, it works okay but at some point it stops, saying that that the program timed out waiting for extraction to finish. The process is definitely incomplete, as a number of files (noticeably the entire species folder) are missing, but I have no clue what could be causing it besides the program quitting out for taking too long. Is there another cause for this issue, and if it is simply because it takes a long time, is there any way to prevent it from automatically aborting the process?

 

Im having issues with it. There is a packed.pak in my assets folder, but i cant open it. Powershell, .bat files and other stuff isnt working. What should it do?

 

Maybe you closed it out by accident? Only thing that makes sense.

What are you trying to open it with? Notepad++ will say it's too big, Powershell will ignore you, basically cannot be opened. The only way to unpack it is to set up a batch file like this;

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_unpacker.exe" "C:\Program Fies (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\assets\packed.pak" "C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\unpackedAssets"