Quick guide to unpack your starbound assets folder

Same way to repack it for Mods with the asset_packer.exe ?

 

I was very confused for a second there, friggin emotes.

Anyway, first run cmd in admin mode right clicking it before you open it and hitting run as administrator, then try navigating to the win32 folder first, then running asset_unpacker.exe.

you need a space between cd and C

Not sure, I haven't tested it out, haven't made any mods :P.

 

Ah ok ill give it a go, Yeah i ended up editing the post haha, Did not realise until after i posted it

 

I feel the need to ask for somebody to do a step by step guide cos all i'm getting is confused as well as many other players.

 

I've tried cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32
cd C:\Program Files <x86>\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32
cd Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32
cd Program Files <x86>\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32


"They system cannot fine the path specified."

 

Okay so Kel^ has informed me of how to make a stupid simple batch file to just run this .
So just download this, put it in the win32 folder, run it and wait for it to unpack. It should end up in /Starbound/Assets/Unpacked.

 

My cmd opens and starts every line with C:\Users\Will (my name). How do I fix it?

 

I did it! No wait it didn't work
Honestly, this is too hard. I'm just going to make a copy of the assets folder and upload it to dropbox.

 

Ty Clockwork, Very Simple

 

Ah! That bat worked for me

Thank you so much ><

 

So after it makes the unpacked file can we just modify those assets to mod the game or do we need to paste them out into the normal assets folder?

 

i assume we will need to repack it replacing the old packed file. how to do this is beyond me.

 

Hm my problem is on the next step - i cant repack it because i dont know how *lol* - same way dindt work - how can i say that the modified files packed in to a new pak file ... omg why they must pack it >.<

 

I don't usually bother with the cd command.

I just use:
"C:\Program Files <x86>\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\win32\asset_unpacker.exe" "C:\Program Files <x86>\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\assets\packed.pak" "C:\Backup\Starbound\assets"

The last quoted one is where you want to put the unpacked folder. Also the last one does not need quotes because it does not have spaces. There are spaces inbetween each "" material

Syntax: Command(the exe file to boot up) (space) File(The file to unpack) (space) Destination(where you want the file to go)

Surround each in quotes if there are spaces in the Directory names.

Technically you could just cooy paste that first line above to have it create a assets folder in that location. If folder does not exist, it will create it for you; usually. That is how it works.

EDIT: This of course is for the windows version.

 

To make a distribute-able mod you need to do a few things which are probably much better explained in an actual modding tutorial.

To just mod your own game you can probably just modify stuff and then re-pack it using the asset_packer.exe

 

About how long is the batch file supposed to take?

 

But How ... i tryd a lot of paths, nothing work

 

It took me 3 minutes, but it could take longer depending on your drive speed.

 

depends on your computer. It can vary, but quite a while... just wait until it finishes.

 

I would think the command is

Code:

asset_packer.exe <asset folder path> target.pak