Saves, mods, assets, all in the same place. I like that starbound is all in a single directory. I don't like having everything spread around different places. Hope this will get you going )īloated PNGs and the custom item/modding resources you're bound to use them with don't belong in an installation directory.Įh. Please note the specific path names, even system/installation paths, can be different depending on individual PC setups so it is next to impossible to give a "just copy and run this" type help.
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Make sure to leave out the "." as well and give the full path e.g. If in doubt use a subdirectory of your Documents or Downloads folder. Note the command prompt needs write permissions for this folder so it probably won't work if you try to write to an OS directory as a non-admin user. If you copy-pasted this file elsewhere you can also point the unpacker at the copy, this can be good practice if you do not trust the executable and want to prevent corruption of the game files (not important in this case since the unpacker should be read-only and downloading a fresh installation isn't that painful anyway, more relevant when using third-party tools on something with HD graphics)įinally \assets\unpacked is just an arbitrary destination to put the unpacked files in for easy handling as some programs might make an unsightly mess otherwise.
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\assets\packed.pak is the relative path to the packed asset file archive you are trying to unpack. C:\ProgramFiles\ will work but C:\Program Files will not, use "C:\Program Files." instead enclosing the entire path in the double quotes) Make sure to use double quotes " if the file path contains any spaces (e.g. You can also type out the full path each time. If you properly navigated to the win32 folder within the command prompt this should point at your overall Starbound installation directory. The double full stop "." is used to denote the containing folder of wherever the command prompt is executed in. It can be prefaced with an explicit file path otherwise the command prompt application only looks in its startup directory (your User directory in Windows 7) and possibly some special places. \assets\_unpackedĮxplanation for people with no shell knowledge: "asset_unpacker.exe" is the command you are trying to run.
Open a command prompt (ideally with admin permissions) and navigate via the "cd" command ("change directory") to the folder containing the asset_unpacker.exe within that shell then execute this within the same command prompt: asset_unpacker.exe.
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