Quick guide to unpack your starbound assets folder

Are you sure telling people to delete packed.pak is a good thing considering I think that's what all the assets are compressed into?

 

I have the same problem. Also Win8.1. Moreover I have the steam-apps installed on a microSD thing, wich I use as drive d:\ ... This led to similar problems with other programs in the past. And can be the problem... Or maybe not. Does not look like you are running the data from an SD... I guess I will try it on a Win7 PC for now...

 

This.

 

Getting the unpacked files from a friend since nothing is working. Oh well.

 

I got them unpacked just fine it's the packing and not having the game crash on launch that's my problem >.< i miss my modded matter manipulator, building was so much easier.

 

I'm having a file not a valid starbound file error. Will anyone help?

 

All issues resolved after deleting the full assets folder, verifying the cache with steam and then using MANUALLY IN CMD the unpacker. All files were sent a folder called unpacked in the assets folder. Pull everything from there into the assets folder and you should be gold.

 

Tell me if your modded pak file will launch. I tried editing the matter manipulator and it hung on the loading screen after I repacked it. Original pak file still works fine.

 

i found the issue, also using 8.1
it appears you'll need to make the directory monually. (as in create a folder in assets called "unpacked")

 

Just to clarify, I downloaded your bat file (thanks btw) and let it run. After a minute or so, a new folder showed up in assets that said "unpacked". Everything was in this folder so I copied the files (333mb) and pasted them into the assets folder and overwriting any conflicts. Then I tried to edit the quest tutorial2 to try to give my character their gear back. WHen I made a new character and did the quest, nothing happened.....did I goof somewhere? Anyone else experience this?

 

Misunderstood as hell.
Disregard post.

 

Furious Koala came out and I am trying this and it just doesn't do anything, no errors, no crashes, just sits there as a command prompt with the code inside, so as of Furious Koala, this does not work
There is a assets_unpacker.exe in the win32 folder, but that opens and closes so

 

Type in \ cd.. \ in the command prompt, it will kick you back a folder, then you can use CD <folder name> to go forwards.

If your Steam folder is on another drive, just type the letter followed by a colon \ X: \



Edit: Also don't forget to put quotes around folders with space and such. This is required.

 

I also found this further up this thread, also helpful!

 

Might want to go to the beginning, this thread is all about using that tool correctly. Those guys can explain it better.

 

After messing around with the .bat and the win32 unpacker I eventually realized that the assets got unpacked so idk :/

 

Aw. Can't make my broadswords backwards now. *sad face*

 

So, I unpacked packed.pak using the tool that the OP posted. I dragged and dropped the unpacked assets into the correct directory and did a quick edit of the stone pick axe to see if it works.

It doesn't.

When I remove the packed.pak from the directory, to see if the game will use the unpacked assets instead and from what I can tell, it doesn't.

Do I have to pack the assets that I unpacked in order for the game to interpret them correctly? If so, how? I see that under Win32 there is a program called asset_packer.exe. When I run it, nothing happens. I've ran from CMD as well. Any insight into this would be rad.

 

Same, I got it to unpack, but it doesn't work, I have tried everything, the asset_packer.exe, dragging edited files to mods with directory folders, copying edited files to assets folder!
Help anyone :/
(until of course the Creative Mod gets updated xD)

 

Trying this from reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/1w6y3m/how_t:speechless:pen_the_assets_pak_file/

will report back soon on how it worked

EDIT: I am getting errors now! Means I am doing something (though not quite right....) probably look at this tomorrow but I think this is the way to go

EDIT: IT WORKS! YAY!