1. How To Open Pak
2. Aion Pak File Editor Download
3. How To Edit Pak File

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Enjoy the quests, dungeons, and experiences that defined your Daeva. Enjoy impactful leveling and progression where your skills grow alongside your character. Achieve greatness all over again, and become a champion of your people. Aion classic brings back the original core classes with all the balance, progression, and PvP that you loved. Tutorial video by @ aMannus. Step 1: Navigate to your Starbound directory and (using SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK) open command prompt. Step 2: Type into Command Prompt 'win32 assetunpacker.exe', 'assets packed.pak', and the path to where you want to extract the stuff to. Mine looks like this. The new RigidModel editor is still in beta, and there are some RigidModels it cannot read properly/cause crashes at reading them. If you experience instabilities while using it, you can disable it in the Settings. Rpfm-v2.5.0-x8664-pc-windows-msvc.zip 90.4 MB. Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) Pre-release. Login to your NC Account to launch the new NC Launcher 2. Select the appropriate game that you are trying to install. On the upper-left corner of the NC Launcher 2. Click the Aion logo then click “Install Game” to proceed with the installation of the game client.

Getting started

1. Obtain Prey Covert.exe here (mirror)
2. Obtain BinXMLDecode.exe here (mirror)
3. Copy “…PreyGameSDKGameData.pak” and “…PreyGameSDKPrecachepatch.pak” into your working directory
   (To mod Mooncrash, use “…PreyWhiplashGameSDKGameData.pak”, “…PreyWhiplashGameSDKArkGameData.pak”, and “…PreyWhiplashGameSDKPrecachepatch.pak”)
4. Open the command line in your working directory (click on the address bar in Windows Explorer and type “cmd”) and run the following two commands:
   PreyConvert.exe GameData.pak
PreyConvert.exe patch.pak
5. Unzip the newly converted GameData.zip and patch.zip files
6. Run the following command:
   for /r . %f in (*.xml) do BinXMLDecode.exe '%f' '%f'
   Now you have all of the .xml files (defining the properties of many game elements) in human-readable format
7. Create a new folder in your working directory and copy whichever .xml files you wish to edit into it, maintaining the original file structure
   Note that if a file is in patch.pak, it is the more recent version and you should work from that rather than from the version in GameData.pak
   There is no need to merge all of the files from patch.pak and GameData.pak, only work with the .xml files you need (but maintain the original file structure!)
8. Edit the .xml files in Notepad++ (not Notepad, as it can’t observe proper whitespace rules)
9. Once you are done with your edits, select all of the edited files and folders and compress them into patch_[YOUR MOD NAME].zip (don’t include [])
10. Rename the file extension to patch_[YOUR MOD NAME].pak
11. Copy patch_[YOUR MOD NAME].pak into “…PreyGameSDKPrecache”
12. Start your game and test your changes. Note that you will need to create a new game file for changes in e.g. PlayerConfig.xml to go into effect
    

If you wish to uninstall your mod, simply remove patch_[YOUR MOD NAME].pak. Note that this may break modded savegames.
To expedite steps 9-10, check out the Prey Mod Packer Utility:
https://rosodudemods.wordpress.com/prey-mod-packer-utility/
This will also ensure that only the correct files are zipped.

What can I modify?

The .xml files you unpacked and decoded contain configuration files which allow you to tweak certain variables in Prey. These essentially define the default properties of game objects.
You can’t alter any game scripts (the instructions and rules that the game follows), but thankfully Arkane designed Prey in a fairly modular,). The game will throw errors, spawn every NPC in a T-pose, prevent actions, crash, etc.
I’ve already said it, but you cannot add new IDs to create new game entities. Just don’t try; it’s a waste of your time.

Bonus: Tip for getting NotePad++ as your defaul XML editor in Windows 10 (there are issues for some reason)

1. Run Notepad++ as an Administrator
2. Go to Settings -> Preferences -> File Association
3. Select “web script” in the first box, then “.xml” in the second, then press the right arrow to move it into the third
4. Close Notepad++
5. Right click an .xml file in Windows Explorer and go to Open With -> Choose Another App. Locate Notepad++ and check “Always use this app to open .xml files”

How To Open Pak

Bonus: Tip for searching for a string in all files in the working directory

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How To Edit Pak File

Open the command line in your working directory (click on the address bar in Windows Explorer and type “cmd”) and run the following command:
findstr /snip '[string]' .*.xml
/s is recursive search, /n prints line numbers, /i is case-insensitive, /p skips binary files, and .*.xml searches all .xml files in the current directory.
This command is useful if you want to find all places where a string (e.g. stat or signal) shows up. It will print the directory, file, and line number along with the full line containing the string.
If you need to search a string which contains a ” character, type ” inside the search quotation marks. e.g. to search for every modifier on the fire signal, run:
findstr /snip 'signalID='7745561656291547931' .*.xml